Mohana Tillana in Rupakam Tala

[aartipatel]

Hello Friends

It's that time of year when I am trying to help my girls prepare for their bharatanatyam exams (Grade 5 and 6). I have been searching for over a year for this music and have only found it as a you tube video (see below). Does anyone know where I can purchase a CD with the same version? Their teacher sings it in class and only has an old tape that I am unable to copy.

Talam: Rupakam, music composition: Vidwan Madurai N. Krishnan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOkk5iAKdsw

Also does anyone have the full lyrics with meaning written in English -it helps to beat out the taalam if the girls can sing it probably.

Your help would be gratefully appreciated by my children!

Thank you

Aarti

[mohan]

This tillana features on the album called 'Madura Thillanas Vol 2.' The problem is that only an instrumental (violin) version not a vocal rendition. See http://www.flipkart.com/mohanam-rupakam ... ed3fgzc2mg
or
http://www.amazon.com/Mohanam-Rupakam/dp/B00169L38C

[Lakshman]

Here are the lyrics:

dhIm tatara. rAgA: mOhana. t/Eka or rUpaka tALA.

P: dhIm tatara tAni taratAni tatAnita dhiranA nAdhru tomdhru
A: taNam taNam jhaNuta dhimita kiTata jhaNuta dhitlAm tlAm kiTataka tlAm tlAm
kiTataka tlAm kiTatakaga ri sa tatikiTa tOm ri sa* dha tatikiTatOm sa* dha pa tatikiTatOm
C: un padamalar dinamum paNiyum en mana nilayarindu viraindu sundara rAjanE varuvAi
krSNadAsanaik-kAttaruLvAi tAm takiTa ga pa ga ri sa ri jham takiTa pa ga pa jhaNu
takadhimi tatikiTa tom tatIkiTa tom tAtIkiTatom

[rshankar]

And here's the meaning of the caraNa sAhitya:
un padamalar dinamum paNiyum
en mana nilayarindu viraindu
sundara rAjanE varuvAi
krSNadAsanaik-kAttaruLvAi

Oh sundara rAjan (another name for vishNu - means handsome king), realizing (arindu) the status (nilai) of my (en) mind (mana) that worships (paNiyum - bows down to) your (un) flower (malar)-like feet (pada) everyday (dinamum), please come (varuvAi) in haste (viraindu), and protect (kAttu) and bless (aruLvAi) the composer, a devotee/slave (dAsan) of kRshNa.

kRshNadAsan is Madurai Sri Krishnan's mudra or ankita.