meaning of the daru 'sArasanayana sarasA' in gangAtarangiNi

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PALLOORKAR
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meaning of the daru 'sArasanayana sarasA' in gangAtarangiNi

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Can somebody help me by giving the word by word meaning of the daru 'sArasanayanasarasA' by rAmaswAmi dIxitar in raga gangAtarangiNi?
thanks in advance

Lakshman
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Re: maening of th daru 'sArasanayana sarasA' in gangAtarang

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Here are the lyrics:

sArasa nayana sArasa. rAgA: gangatarangiNi. Adi tALA. Ramaswami Dikshitar.

P: sArasa nayana sarasA sAratara ratarasA
A: mAratAta tAramA mAnita madhyamatanimA
tArapabhAparatA tApitAvayava tApitA
C: bhArambhAtamita bhArambhA bhAva rAga taLatAgarAvabhA
bhAratE tavata tErabhA sAnapatitapa titamanasA
hAravidhi rodhiviraha hAvanana tAnanavahA
sarutu mEtumE sarasA sakhi veNkaTakrishNa sarasa

rshankar
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Re: maening of th daru 'sArasanayana sarasA' in gangAtarang

Post by rshankar »

Palloorkar - why is this a 'daru' and not just a regular kRti? - the structure, pallavi, anupallavi and caraNam are like a kRti...
Lji - is there a link for an audio?

Lakshman
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Re: maening of th daru 'sArasanayana sarasA' in gangAtarang

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I have not found any audio file so far.

PALLOORKAR
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Re: maening of th daru 'sArasanayana sarasA' in gangAtarang

Post by PALLOORKAR »

Shankarji, Prof. P Sambamoorthy has described it as a daru(South indian Music-Book-3 -Chapter 6-under the head viloma swara sahitya). Lakshmanji, if you please, post the meaning. thankyou.

Lakshman
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Re: maening of th daru 'sArasanayana sarasA' in gangAtarang

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Someone else will post the meaning. My samskrt was only upto high school level.

cmlover
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Re: meaning of the daru 'sArasanayana sarasA' in gangAtaran

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With some corrections the lyrics in devanagari so that the beauty can be seen.
Each line is its mirror image except the last one.

सारस नयन सरसा
सारतर रतरसा

मारतात तारमा
मानित मध्यम तनिमा
तारपभापरता
तापितावयव तापिता

भारम्भातमित भारम्भा
भाव राग ताळतागरावभा
भारतॆ तवत तॆरभा
सानमतति पतितमनसा
हारविधि रॊधिविरहा
हावनन ताननवहा
सारस मॆतुमॆ सरसा
सखि वॆन्कटक्रिष्ण सरसा

Gerry_Gerry
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Re: meaning of the daru 'sArasanayana sarasA' in gangAtarangiNi

Post by Gerry_Gerry »

See the first 20 min of the youtube below
Last edited by Gerry_Gerry on 22 Nov 2021, 14:40, edited 1 time in total.


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