Thaye Yasodha and its sequels

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Ananth
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I was looking up the lyrics for Oothukkadu Venkatavi's famous Todi song at http://www.karnatik.com/c1446.shtml
where it says
This song can be considered part of a 3-song set, in which the gopis complain (taayE yashOda), Krishna defends himself (illai illaiyammaa - mOhanam), and a judgement is made by YashOda (pEsaadhE pOngaLadi - madyamaavati) in the royal court.
Intrigued, I read the lyrics of the other two:

illai illaiyammaa
and
pEsaadhE pOngaLadi

and my delight was complete.

I guess some artist would have rendered these songs as a set,
or even better, danced them. It should be wonderful. Any idea?

Credit:
The three songs are compared beautifully (see the meanings for each), with parallels in each song, by M.G. Vasudevan, who kindly provided lyrics, meaning, and commentary.

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