translation of sarasijanaabha sOdari

[HariKrishna]

sarasijanaabha sOdari
raagam: naagagaandhaari

20 naTabhairavi janya
Aa: S R2 M1 G2 M1 P D1 N2 S
Av: S N2 D1 P M1 G2 R2 S

taaLam:
Composer: Muttuswaamee Dikshitar
Language:

pallavi

sarasijanAbha sOdari shankari pAhimAm

anupallavi

varada abhayakara kamaLe sharaNAgatha vatsaLe

caraNam

parandhAma prakIrthitE pashupAsa vimOcitE
pannagAbharaNayutE nAgagAndhAri pUjitAbjapadE
sadA nanditE sampadE varaguruguha janani madashamanI
mahishAsura mardhinI mandagamani mangala varapradAyini

from: http://www.karnatik.com/c1234.shtml

[HariKrishna]

Anyone want to take this one? Also, a couple of things I noticed:
1) This appears to be in Sanskrit language which is consistent with most of Dikshitar's compositions that I have seen.
2) The rAgam is "nAgagAndhAri" which interestingly is also mentioned in the second line of the charanam. I remember reading about this aspect of some of Dikshitar's compositions in which the name of the rAgam is worked into the lyrics of the song - I believe there was a technical term for it but cannot recall what it was - can anyone help me with that?

regards,

HariKrishna

[rshankar]

Except for a couple of (disputed) compositions in maNipravALam, all of Sri MD's compositions are in sanskRt. He embeds the rAga mudra in some of the kRtis. For instance, if he has composed more than one composition in the same rAga, not all of them have the rAga mudra.

[mohan]

For a comprehensive list of Dikshitar krithis with lyrics and meanings see http://guruguha.org/wiki/Alphabetical.html

[HariKrishna]

thanks for this! This list is much better than the one I was previously using at http://www.medieval.org/music/world/car ... hitar.html. I like the fact that it has hyperlinks and diacritics. Anyway, I found the translation there also. Thanks again.

HK

[bhaskan]

Hi.

Anyone can share notations for this beautiful song sarasijanabha Sodari to [email protected].

Regards

Bhaskaran