Kotiswara Aiyar

[rajeshnat]

Kotiswara Aiyar or koteeswara iyer write up
http://www.hindu.com/fr/2009/10/30/stor ... 320300.htm

Lji
Would be nice if you just list out all the krithis of all the 72 melakartha krithis with adequate spacing say after every 6 krithis or so

[Gamakam]

Apart from the famous 72, Koteeswara Iyer has composed some brilliant compositions like "AiyanE aat koL meyyanE". I was totally mesmerized when I heard S.Rajam render the kamboji kriti.

[gn.sn42]

Lakshman's input went into the karnatik.com list of compositions, here.

[rajeshnat]

Lji
By any chance do you have them in sorted list of melakartha 1-72 . If you dont have it , dont bother it takes too much time and effort to sort it out as melakartha.

gn.sn42,
Thanks for the link, I was thinking in terms of melakartha sorted list, because only a handful of KI's songs are song by musicians of today.

[hianusree]

Dear rajeshnat,

I very recently sometimes last week, I had a chance to listen to the 72, mela raga kritis by Kotiswara iyer on the AIR. It was brodcast as 6 episodes, though I managed to listen to only 3 of them. There almost 10 /12 (6*12=72)songs were sung by artists in each episode. I hope AIR has a collection of that or if someone has recoedrd all the 6 episodes of the same. All of the songs really worth learning, which i felt will help in knowing the nuances of the melas.

Also today's(30.10.09) hindu's friday review has a write up about Kotiswara Iyer and about his mela compositions.

[Lakshman]

Kanakangaka sukha guha Kanakangi Adi M 01
Tarunam ide dayanidhe aru sheyvai adiyen Ratnangi Adi M 02
Ma madhura sarasa sarasama sadguna Ganamurti Adi M 03
Dasa nesha guheshane nija tejane klesha Vanaspati Adi M 04
Nija bhakti ni nityanandanda kanda Manavati Rupaka M 05
Va velava va mavalava Tanarupi K/Chapu M 06

Vandarul ni ta anatha natha Senavati Chapu M 07
Kali tira vandarul sukumara Todi Chapu M 08
Karunaikkadale kaividel Dhenuka Adi M 09
Irangada sami natha nin tiru ulam ezhaiyen Natakapriya Adi M 10
Sukha vazhvadainduivai sheyvai maname Kokilapriya Rupaka M 11
Nal agude natha varutavai Rupavati Adi M 12

Nada nilai kanduruga nan arugana Gayakapriya K/Chapu M 13
Nambinen ayya natha nin padam Vakulabharana Adi M 14
Nan en sheyven sami ni arul sheyyavidil Mayamalavagaula Adi M 15
Kana kan koti vendum karunakara muruganai Chakravaka Rupaka M 16
Kanjam konjum shencharan nin tanjam Suryakanta Adi M 17
Alalagada adiyenai natha ni tan Hatakambari Adi M 18

Varam tarum sami natha nal Jhankaradhvani Chapu M 19
Amboruha padame nambinen nin pon Natabhairavi Rupaka M 20
Velava va vinai tira vel vira Kiravani K/Chapu M 21
Kan parayya kanda karayya kan parayya Kharaharapriya Adi M 22
Parai arul tarai porul Gaurimanohari Adi M 23
Shrngara kumara en jivadhara udara Varunapriya Adi M 24

Malaginen vela nin mel Mararanjani Adi M 25
Ni tan appa abhara kripanidhe ni Charukesi Adi M 26
Malaiyade maname malaiyade Sarasangi Rupaka M 27
Niye gati en taye tati Harikambhoji Adi M 28
Enai alayya ivvelaiye vandu Shankarabharana Adi M 29
Nayen unnaiye nambinen taye enave ni Naganandini Adi M 30

Shambhu sadashiva suta udara sadbhakti Yagapriya Adi M 31
Kalangade maname ni inname Ragavardhani Adi M 32
Ninai maname ni vinai tirave guhan Gangeyabhushani Rupaka M 33
Nadanusantana nanmargame sanmarga Vagadishvari Adi M 34
Paramukham adeno enmel gurupara Shulini Adi M 35
Edayya gati enakku Chalanata Adi M 36

Ganamudam ta ni nidam jnanamuda Salaga Adi M 37
Kanaka mayura gamana gambhira Jalarnava Adi M 38
Anatha rakshaka guha arashe ni varuga Jhalavarali K/Chapu M 39
Sami ide nalla samayam tandarul abhayam Navanita Rupaka M 40
Anjade nenjame ni kumarayyan padam Pavani Chapu M 41
Sadananda bhakti tandu sami enaiyal Raghupriya Rupaka M 42

Viraivagave vinai tira vel iraiva arulvai Gavambodhi Adi M 43
Shen tiru velan padam chintai shei maname Bhavapriya Adi M 44
Velane vere gati ilane ni padam Shubhapantuvarali Chapu M 45
Antaranga bhakti tandenai alayya arashe Shadvidhamargini Adi M 46
Iha para sukhamiha arul guhane muruga Suvarnangi Rupaka M 47
Appa murugayyane eppodarulvadenakku Divyamani Adi M 48

Karunya kanda ganamudam santatam Dhavalambari Rupaka M 49
En maname unakkinda bhayam en Namanarayani Adi M 50
Ka murugayya kaliyugameyya karunai mal Kamavardhini Adi M 51
Sami sada muda nin pada smaranam Ramapriya Adi M 52
Ihame sukham tarum shanmukham enave Gamanashrama Adi M 53
Paramananda bhakti tandarul kanda Vishvambari Rupaka M 54

Kanda bhakta taruve ni endan chinta Shyamalangi Chapu M 55
Sukhame sukham guha namasmarana Shanmukhapriya Adi M 56
Unnai allal vere gati enakkundo sholvai Simhendramadhyam Adi M 57
Manade maravade guha devanai Hemavati Rupaka M 58
Kanda bhakta chintamani en chintakula Dharmavati Chapu M 59
Mohanakara muttukumara shrikara karuna Nitimati Rupaka M 60

Nada sukham taru natha guhan tiru Kantamani Adi M 61
Ghana naya deshika ghana rasika Rishabhapriya Adi M 62
Kai kuda venume kanda ninnarul enakkum Latangi K/Chapu M 63
Iha para sukha dayaka varam tandarul Vachaspati Rupaka M 64
Sadanandame tarum kandavel padara Kalyani Adi M 65
Sama gana lola sadbhakti tandarul vadive Chitrambari Chapu M 66

Velumayilume vetri veru mayilume Sucharitra Rupaka M 67
Ganamuda panam kanda irukka venu Jyotisvarupini Chapu M 68
Sukha kara somasundara kumara shubha Dhatuvardhani Adi M 69
Tandarul ayya kandane ni meyyaga Nasikabhushani Chapu M 70
Ka guha shanmukha niye gati ide Koshala Rupaka M 71
Arul sheya venumayya ni murugayya Rasikapriya Adi M 72

[gn.sn42]

Thanks, Lakshman!

[ranjanimalavi]

TVG has 3 of these in his folder in sangeethapriya

1306-Melaraghakrithi-Koteeswara_Iyer-Subha_Ganesan FOLDER 2009/10/13 UTC
1311-Melaraghakrithi-Koteeswara_Iyer-S_Rajeswari FOLDER 2009/10/17 UTC
1318-Melaraghakrithi-Koteeswara_Iyer-T_V_Sundaravalli

Raman

[ranjanimalavi]

1237-72_Melakartha_Lec_Demo-Podhigai_TV_audio

This one also has each artist singing many of Koteeswara Iyer's songs

Thanks to TVG for meticulously recording and uploading it.

Raman

[rajeshnat]

Lji
Thanks for that sorted list, I just counted only 6 are sung in that 72 that list. Of particular interest is one number kali theera -tOdi popularized by ARI/KVN , looks that is also dead. In short 64 has to get resurrected.

[arasi]

Rajesh,
This season, I heard Vijayalakshmi Subramaniam sing a very good DhavalAmbari.
Manimaran in the Margazhi maha utsavam sang aruL seyya vENdumaiyyA in rasikapriyA.
Sanjay sings jyOtisvarUpiNi, calanATa, sucaritrA, rishabhapriyA and a few others.
You may also like to know that vidUshi Neela Ramgopal has sung songs in every mELakartA rAgam (many of Koteeswara Iyer) on a CD. She is a delight to listen to. She gives a rAgA sketch, sings neraval and svarams for each one of them!

[S.Govindaswamy]

It is mentioned that Sadguru ThyAgarAja has no descendents. I came across this information. Othere rasikas may throw morelight on this.
I had met a purOhit, SrI. Pasupati, at Madurai, who informed me that he is related to the descendents of saint tyAgarAjA. The information he gave is as below.
tyAgarAjA’s gOtram is bharadvAja. He married pArvati @ sItAlaksmamma who died without any issues. He married her younger sister kanakAmba @ kamalamma, who begot a daughter who was named as sItamma. She married kuppuswami of kounDiNya gOtram. They had a son who was named as tyAgarAjan. He married guruvamma. They had a son subrahmanya jOsier. He had a son sundaramayyar, whose wife was lalitAmbAL. They had four sons, natarAjan, rAmamUrti, subrahmanya ayyar and tyAgarAja ayyar. I presume that you have referred to the last person as the present caretaker of the house in which tyAgarAja was born.
He also informed me that the vigrahams which were worshipped by tyAgarAja are with one of his relatives at tanjAvUr.

Govindaswamy

[sam]

Koteeswara Iyer (1869 - 1938), was a pioneer composer of Indian classical music Carnatic music. He was a grandson of Kavi Kunjara Bharati(1810–1896) attributing to a strong lineage of accomplished musicians. He was born in Nandhanur to Nagarathinam iyer who was a Sivagangai Samasthana Sangeetha Vidwan. His ancestors lived initially in Tirunelveli (Tamil Nadu) and later in Raja Hiranya Garba Thirumalai Sethupathi's village in Perungarai (Ramanathapuram). Koteeswara Iyer studied music under Poochi Srinivasa Iyengar (1860–1919) and Patnam Subramania Iyer (1845–1902). He composed mainly in the Tamil language and used the mudra Kavi Kunjara Dasan in tribute to his grandfather. While studying his BA in English Literature in Trichy, Koteeswara Iyer started performing in small Kutcheries singing Kavi Kunjara Bharathi's Skanda Puranam, Perinba Keerthanaigal.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koteeswara_Iyer

[sam]

Madurai Mani Iyer -
Ganamuda Paanam-
Jyotiswarupini-
Koteeshwara Iyer .

https://youtu.be/Ysg9zGhS2tc?si=Qd9nW-PB7IGD4Ksd..

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"Radha Jayalakshmi
-
gAnAmuda pAnam -
jyOtiswaroopini -

https://youtu.be/MWXghsJEXms?si=bwAnjhey5qtwI30q[
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Jyoti swarupini (pronounced jyōti swarūpini) is a ragam in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is the 68th Melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music. It is the prati madhyamam equivalent of Ragavardhini, which is the 32nd melakarta.[1] It is called Jyōtirāga or Joti[1][2] or Jyōti[3] in Muthuswami Dikshitar school of Carnatic music.
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(Wiki)
Thus, it is a vivaadi meLa raagam.
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Koteeswara Iyer is reputed to be the only composer to have composed in ALL the 72 MK raagams., ?
( how about MD kruthis?)
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His speciality is that like Papanasam sivan, almost all his kruthis were in Tamil.
Sanjay subramanyam is rendering them in concerts.
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Koteeswara Iyer has given us compositions in janya ràgams too.

"Veliah Dayavillaya
(Saveri)
R Vedavalli

https://youtu.be/iqP32Tz_XMw?si=Lx-N5LXCeKLYX3U4

..

[sam]

Karunya Kanda Ganamudam - Dhavalambari Raagam
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Vijayalakshmi Subramanyam

https://youtu.be/Bd7lVDlU9I8?si=Y0en_hVm6Qo1sCp9

[sam]

"aruL seyya vENDum-

rasikapriyA -

Tanjore S Kalyanaraman"

https://youtu.be/VKBkzg3dbPw?si=wN0xwwG63V1fxxVg

Rasikapriya is a rāgam in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is the last (72nd) melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music. It is called Rasamanjari in Muthuswami Dikshitar school of Carnatic music.[1][2]
Wiki

[sam]

"vElu mayilumE-
sucaritra -

Sanjay Subramanyam

https://youtu.be/dpJs_NX7s30?si=KlsLhD-eeXGRlsvo

Sucharitra is a rāgam in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is the 67th melakarta rāgam (parent scale) in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music. It is considered an unattractive raga and is rarely performed. It is called Santāna manjari in the Muthuswami Dikshitar school of Carnatic music

Vivadi

wiki

[sam]

"MS Subbulakshmi-
Varana mukhava-
hamsadhvani

Koteeswara aiyer"
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https://youtu.be/_3lSnTfsmds?si=XmrXeLcZ8m483_ne

[shankarank]

Wanted to link the discussion on gana naya dEsika in this thread - so people can find it as well

https://www.rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13306