murugA tirumAl marugA - harikAmbhOji - tanjAvur Sankara ayya

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 22 Oct 2009, 09:35

Could I request a translation of this song, please?

http://www.karnatik.com/c2956.shtml

murugaa thirumaal
raagam: harikaambhOji

28 harikaambhOji mela
Aa: S R2 G3 M1 P D2 N2 S
Av: S N2 D2 P M1 G3 R2 S

taaLam: roopakam
Composer: Tanjavur Shankara Iyer
Language: Tamil

pallavi

murugA tirumAl marugA SaNmukhA

anupallavi

tiruvulAvum ten pazhani daivamE nambinEn

caraNam

karuNai kaDalE unnai kaNamum piriyEn kandA varuvAi aruL purivAi nI dayavAi

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 22 Oct 2009, 16:30

Prashant - here you go! Another passionate plea in tamizh set in harikAmbhOji...

pallavi
murugA tirumAl marugA SaNmukhA

Oh handsome one (murugA), nephew (marugA) of vishNu (tirumAl), the six (shaN)-faced one (mukhA)

anupallavi
tiruvulAvum ten pazhani daivamE nambinEn

I have put my faith/believed in (nambinEn) you, oh Lord/god (deivamE) of the southern (ten) city of pazhani surrounded by (ulAvum) auspiciousness/divinity (tiru).

caraNam
karuNai kaDalE unnai kaNamum piriyEn kandA varuvAi aruL purivAi nI dayavAi

Oh reppository (kaDalE) of compassion (karuNai)! I can not bear to be separated (piriyEn) from you (unai) for even a second (kaNamum). Oh kandA, I request you (nI) to please appear (varuvAi) before me and kindly (dayavAi) shower (purivAi) your grace (aruL).

krishnaa · Post by **krishnaa** » 22 Oct 2009, 16:43

Ravi, just an inquiry, is handsome the literal meaning of murugA?
How was kArtikEya named murugA in the south???

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 22 Oct 2009, 16:59

murugu - beauty/divinity; therefore, murugA, murugan denotes someone who is (divinely) beautiful/handsome.

He was called murugA because of his beauty.

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 22 Oct 2009, 17:17

Ref. the song 'muruganin maRu peyar azhagu'in behag.

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 22 Oct 2009, 19:23

Thanks Ravi - believe it or not, I am still trying to learn more songs in harikAmbhOji. This rAgA is really stuck in my mind since a few weeks... sheer bliss!

BTW, Ravi - thanks to all your translations, I was able to successfully translate all the words in this song myself, except 'tiru ulAvum' which I was clueless about. That's a small but significant step for me. Thank you!

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 22 Oct 2009, 19:34

prashant wrote:Thanks Ravi - believe it or not, I am still trying to learn more songs in harikAmbhOji. This rAgA is really stuck in my mind since a few weeks... sheer bliss!

It is a beautiful rAga.

prashant wrote:BTW, Ravi - thanks to all your translations, I was able to successfully translate all the words in this song myself, except 'tiru ulAvum' which I was clueless about. That's a small but significant step for me. Thank you!

That is great to know! Now, both of us can claim to belong to the (online) Sishya parampara of Rajani, Arasi et al...

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 22 Oct 2009, 19:44

prashant,
talking of harikambhoji, I remember the raga alapanai of Shri Nedunuri Krishnamoorthy in CFAS a few years back-think it was the sangita kalanidhi series- whatever had to be in the raga was there- he left nothing unsaid(unsung)!Sheer Bliss, as you said!

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 22 Oct 2009, 21:07

Oh, what an AlApanA that was... let me see if I can dig it up and post it here. That was in February 2002 - a great three days of music. Back-to-back concerts of Sangita Kalanidhis Shri Nedunuri, Shri TNK and Smt. Vedavalli...

s_hari · Post by **s_hari** » 22 Oct 2009, 22:20

prashant wrote:Thanks Ravi - believe it or not, I am still trying to learn more songs in harikAmbhOji. This rAgA is really stuck in my mind since a few weeks... sheer bliss!

Prashant - Harikambhoji is very attractive to me, chani tOdi is unforgettable - DKP/DKJ version. Have you heard MDR RTP? What a great alapana..

-hari

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 23 Oct 2009, 00:01

And I was under the impression this song was by Spenser Venugopal
and that DKJ tuned it and sang it!

Lakshman · Post by **Lakshman** » 23 Oct 2009, 02:10

Spencer Venugopal's song is vA murugA vA vaDivazhagA SaNmukhA vA in bEgaDa.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 23 Oct 2009, 07:33

Lakshman,
I now know the reason for my mix-up!