Meaning of Sri Tiger's Arabhi varnam

divakar · Post by **divakar** » 10 Jan 2007, 09:47

hi,
Hello to all friends. My hearty wishes for a joyful new year to all. I've been away from the forum for quite some time. sorry.

can someone provide the meaning of Sri Tiger's Arabhi varnam

annamE aravAbharaNanai (tv), rAgA: Arabhi, tALA: Adi

P: annamE aravAbharaNanai azhaittu vA vEgamadAi
A: ponnambalattE kALiyuDan naTamiDum shivakAmi nEsanai
C: enna shOdanaiyO ariyEn

thank you.
divakar

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 10 Jan 2007, 10:00

Hello ...
I was always expecting you make a splash on your return in a MDR thread .
Welcome Back

divakar · Post by **divakar** » 10 Jan 2007, 10:13

hello kulkarniji,
thank you. lost touch with forum but not with listening to CM.

divakar

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 10 Jan 2007, 10:34

annamE = Oh beautiful damsel
aravAbharaNanai = the one who wears a snake (aravam) as an ornament (AbharaNanai) aka Siva
azhaittu vA = (please) bring him along
vEgamadAi = without delay

Oh beautiful damsel, please make haste and bring my lord Siva, adorned with snakes to me without any delay...

ponnambalattE = in the ponnambalam (chidambaram) - tEdaTra tillaiyilE ponnambalam kanDAN - the kUttambalam in chidambaram is called the golden/ponn ambalam
kALiyuDan = with kALi (pArvatI)
naTamiDum = (the one) who dances
shivakAmi nEsanai = the lover/lord of sivakAmi (pArvati)

Anupallavi gives the tOzhi the address of the Lord - He, the lord of Goddess sivakAmi who dances with kALi (keeping time - it is believed that when they stop dancing the world with come to an end) in chidambaram - please bring him to me, dear friend...

C: enna = what
sOdanaiyO = test
ariyEn = I know not

I do not know why he is testing me (by not coming coming here)? So, why don't you go and bring him to me?

divakar · Post by **divakar** » 10 Jan 2007, 10:47

thanks rshankar for the detailed meaning.

what does 'kUttambalam' mean ? and what is meant by 'ambalam' ?

thanks
divakar

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 10 Jan 2007, 11:02

ambalam is an open space, and kUttu = dance/drama etc...a theater - however, these words are also used for the natarAja temple in chidambaram, because Siva is the cosmic dancer
kUttu was the ancient tamizh word for dance (the precusor of modern day bharatanATyam), and the Lord of Chidambaram was called kUttan. naTarAja, and naTESan, and sabhESan are considered by some to be sanskritized names for the lord of dance.
bharatanATyam was known as kUttu (in Bharati Dasan's dES composition, 'tunbam nErgayil yAzh eDuttu nI', he asks - tamizh kUttin murayinAl ADi kATTa mATTAyA? - will you not show it through the idiom of tamizh dance - aka bharatanATyam), and later on sadir (ANDAL describes, sadir iLa mangayar - young dancers in her dream), and then dAsiATTam because the dEvadAsIs were the dancers. In the 1930s, during it's revival, E. Krishna Iyer and Rukmini Devi Arundale are credited with having come up with the name bharata-nATyam bha from bhAva, ra from rAga, and ta from tALa - emotion, melody and rythm, the pillars of any dance form. nATyam technically means theater, but they took some liberty there...

divakar · Post by **divakar** » 10 Jan 2007, 13:04

rshankar,
thank you very much for the elaborate reply.

divakar

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 11 Jan 2007, 11:10

Elaborate and enlightening (always learning, Ravi...)

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 11 Jan 2007, 17:41

Thanks, Arasi. You are welcome, Divakar.

meena · Post by **meena** » 13 Jan 2007, 01:01

i've heard smt. ananthalakshmi sadagopan (commercial release) and sree tns. versions. Has anyone else rendered this beautiful varna?