Hello, Vanakkam to all of you...I'm new to this forum..I'm from France and I learn Bharata Natyam since 4 years old and today my dance master started to teach me the dance of God Shiva's vehicule Nandi : ''Nandi Chol" and I would like to have the lyrics of this dance for help me to learn it easily.
Can someone of you know the lyrics ?
You are right. The longer version is not quite audible for the lyrics (because of the echo in the hall and the naTTuvanAr's stick makes the most noise drowning out the singing). The jathis are clear enough to follow.
In the second (shorter version), everything is clear from the jathis onwards. But it stops abruptly after the first line of the lyrics which goes as
"nIlakaNTa mahAdEva nikilalOkha jana pratAbha..."
Hi Gajanifromfrance
The lyrics you are referring to are of a stuti called nilakantha mahadeva. Nandi Chol is just the preclude to this invocatory stuthi. The lyrics of the stuti are given here:
Thanks to 'Mahakavi' and 'Ksl' to help mee
I'm so happy !!
To 'Ksl' : Well, my Guru is Sri Thayalasingam. He's Adyar K. Lakshman master's disciple, so that's why most of the dance I learnt are in Lakshman master's choreography and Kalakshetra style
Now I'm 19...I started at 4 years old
Are you asking if there is another charanam in the video being danced to? I checked. There is not. I dont think there is another charanam in the sahityam either. (Googled dikshitar krithis)
Hello all, I am trying to find more information on the composer of this item.
My understanding is that the 'Nilakantha Mahadeva' in Vasantha raga was composed by Madurai N Krishnan which was the song that followed Adyar Lakshman's Nandi Chollu and is widely peformed as one of the dance maestro's classic works today - the proper term being 'Nandi Chollu & Shiva Dhyanam' which is rarely used.
However, I understand this composition was interpolated from a krithi by Nilakantha Sivan - which I have since discovered was probably 'Nilakantha Nityananda'.
I have extracted both sets of lyrics below for comparison.
Can anyone confirm or verify this information?
nIlakaNTha mahAdEva
rAgam: vasanta
tAlam: Adi
composer: madurai n. krishnan
pallavi
nIlakaNTha mahAdEva nikhila lOka jana pratApa
anupallavi
bAla candrashEkhara pArvati manOhara
charanam
dhavaLita kailAsa kshEtra sAma vEda gIta stOtra
avani brahma kapAla kshEtra kAmadahana vilAsa nEtra
Thanks Pratyaksham Bala for the corrections.
If nIlakaNThA is the correct word shouldn't mahAdEva be mahAdEvA, and in C1, gangAdharA, nAgabhUSaNA, shankarA, guruparA as well?