Composer of song

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harimau
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Composer of song

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Yesterday, O S Thyagaraja sang a tukkada "Pesum deivam Murugan, Mana medayil aadum marugan".

Does anybody have a clue about who the composer might be?

rshankar
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Re: Composer of song

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harimau wrote: 13 Dec 2017, 22:03 Yesterday, O S Thyagaraja sang a tukkada "Pesum deivam Murugan, Mana medayil aadum marugan".

Does anybody have a clue about who the composer might be?
A mami/mama from Sri OST's neighborhood? ;)

rajeshnat
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Re: Composer of song

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pEsum deivam murugan - nagavalli - swami surajananda

Once I heard hyderabad brothers singing this in SKGS.

Lakshman
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Re: Composer of song

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pEsum deivam murugan. rAgA: nAgavalli. rUpaka tALA. Guru Surajananda.

P: pEsum deivam murugan mana mEDaiyil ADiDum marugan
A: shuvaiyE avanadu vEdam sukhamE avanadu pAdam
C: malaigaL avanadu vIDu kalaigaL avanadu Edu
tamizhE avanadu piLLai dayavE avanadu ellai

harimau
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Re: Composer of song

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rshankar wrote: 13 Dec 2017, 22:26
harimau wrote: 13 Dec 2017, 22:03 Yesterday, O S Thyagaraja sang a tukkada "Pesum deivam Murugan, Mana medayil aadum marugan".

Does anybody have a clue about who the composer might be?
A mami/mama from Sri OST's neighborhood? ;)
I didn't want to go there. I had a suspicion that this could be one of Guru Surajananda's compositions and it has been confirmed by others.

On the other hand, since Guru Surajananda lived in Neelankarai (south Chennai) in his last years, I suppose this could be considered a composition by a neighborhood mama!

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