Anai ayyA

[rajeshnat]

Very very less is known about Anai Ayya Iyer Brothers,other than their flagship krithi "intA parAkA" in nAdanAmakriya popularized by semmangudi . To an extent their other krithi "ethanai thAn vitthai katralum enna, piraman ezhuthai vella" in Anandabhairavi is a very melting number.

Is anything known about the composer other than the contents of this url
http://www.karnatik.com/co1059.shtml

[rajeshnat]

Poincare
You said in TMK's thread that T Viswa has rendered the anandabhairavi krithi , do you have the recording or do you pointers to the same?

Lji,
Can we get the lyrics of this anandabhairavi krithi "ethanai thAn vitthai katRalum"?

[srikanthamshastry]

very happy to see about anai ayya.I have few other compositions of him,like,amba nannu brovave-todi,sharanu sharanu-janjhooti,bhajana seyave-kedara,mahima teliya tarama-shankarabharana, Anai &his brother Ayya were in the court of sarfoji 2nd.[1800-1832]. maha vaidyanatha iyer belongs to his SHISHYA PARAMPARA, i think.---Shreekantham nagendra shastry.

[arvindt]

Vidhi Illarku in Kharaharapriya I think is also a composition of the brothers, if I'm not wrong. Masterpiece
of the Dhanam school.

[Pratyaksham Bala]

I understand that 26 Tamil songs and 12 Telugu songs created by Anai Ayyar and Ayyavayyar are included in this publication:-

'Compositions of Anai-Ayya brothers', compiled by T. Viswanathan & T. Sankaran, edited by Karaikudi S. Subramanian, and published by Brhaddhvani, Madras, in 1990.

[Lakshman]

ettanai tAn. rAgA: Anandabhairavi. Adi tALA.

P: ettanai tAn viddai kaTrAlum enna bhraman ezhuttai vellappOmO
A: edishaiyum pugazh tiruvaiyATril vaLar Ishan pAdam tannai vaNangA mUDhargaL
C1: kATTil mrgattuDan kalandirundAl enna kATraip-pushittu veghu kAlam irundAlenna
pITTin pazham poruLaippagharnd-uraittAlenna parittu malaiyaik-kaip-pandADinAlenna
2: vaDalAgni mattinil irundAlenna vAta muraigaL kaTru vAzhdirundAlenna
naDavA maravA vAzhndadanAlenna nAgattin viSamuNDu nayandirundAlenna
3: nIr mIdinil neTTi pOl midandAlenna nilaiyillAk-kaDalin nilai arindAlenna
pAr mEviya kongaiyAL umAdAsanukku vAkkudavum aiyArenai vaNangA mUDhargaLai

[venkatakailasam]

I could not find a thread on this composer..

Anai Ayya - These are really two brothers named Anai Aiyar and Ayyavaiyer. They were patronized by the Tanjavur Marattha king Serfoji III (1800-1832). Well versed in music and scholars in the southern languages, they hail from a small village near Tanjavur called Vaiyacheri. Anai Ayya's cousins were Doraisvami Iyer who was the father of Maha Vaidyanatha Iyer. They almost always sang as a pair. Their compositions carry the mudra Umadasa since they were worshippers of Devi. Along with songs praising the dieties Mangalambika of Vaiyecheri and Dharmasamvardhani of Tiruvaiyaru, they also composed songs on God Agastishvara and Pranatartihara. A few of the songs deal in philosophical subjects like jnana and vairagya. Invariably the songs are in Telugu and Tamil. The ragas that they used were the popular ones but they favored the roopaka tala. Some of their well-known songs are Intaparaka in naadanaamakriyaa, Bhajana seyave in kEdaaram and Amba nannu brovave in tODi, Mahima teliya tarama in shankaraabharaNam and Parakela bala in reeti gowLa.

Concert 204- Compositions of Anai Iyah (Bhushani Kalyanaraman, SSI, MDR)
Listen at :
http://myblogkumara.blogspot.in/2014/06 ... rt-vi.html

Concert details:
01_ENNAVIDHAM_SONNALUM-ATANA- Bhushani Kalyanaraman
02_ARUMAI_PERUMAI_THERIYAR-SARANGA- Bhushani Kalyanaraman
03_VARMAMA_EN_MEEDHIL-SAVERI- Bhushani Kalyanaraman
04_NEEYE_GATHI_ILLAMAL-KAMBHOJI- Bhushani Kalyanaraman
05_ARIVAI_THANDHIDU_THAYE-SURATI-- Bhushani Kalyanaraman
06-marmamAi_eNNenjil-sAvEri- Bhushani Kalyanaraman
07-Amba-Nannu-Brovave-Todi-SSI
08-Bhajana-Seyave-Kedaram-MDR
09-Inta_paraka-SSI

[HarishankarK]

Is Inta Paraaka in raga Mayamalavagowlai or Nadanamakriya?
Are they related in anyway to Krishnaswami Ayya who wrote the prolifc composition Amba Paradevata (Rudrapriya)?

[RaviSri]

rajeshnat, here is the link to T.Viswa's rendering of 'ethanai dAn vidhai', ananda bhairavi:

http://www.mediafire.com/listen/0307jun ... TViswa.mp3

Also, for those who are interested, here are the links to Veena Dhanammal's rendition on the veena and voice of 'mahima teliya taramA', sankarAbharaNam and T.Brinda's renditon of 'sharaNu sharaNu' in chenjurutti. All three are compositions of Anayya.

http://www.mediafire.com/listen/57l6aeu ... Dhanam.mp3

http://www.mediafire.com/listen/b7dc8ii ... Brinda.mp3

Veena Dhanammal's grandmother Kamakshi learnt their songs from Anayya themselves. That's how their compositions have come down to the Dhanammal family.

[sanjaysubfan]

A lovely rendition of "Maanam vaitharul" by Sanjay Subrahmanyan

http://youtu.be/NE5tGqrI6uE