Sivaashtapathi

sivachinta1965 · Post by **sivachinta1965** » 24 Sep 2009, 11:19

dear Lakshmanji

Any information on "Sivaashtapathi".

Is this a Papanasam piece? or his son's?

please provide some details.

Sivaprasad

Lakshman · Post by **Lakshman** » 24 Sep 2009, 15:55

If these are the starting words of the song, I don't have any information on it.

kmrasika · Post by **kmrasika** » 25 Sep 2009, 07:54

The SivAShTapadI is a prototype of jayadEva's gItagOvindam and observes the ashTapadI composition structure. Can't remember the name of the composer.

Is this a Papanasam piece? or his son's?

I don't know whether Shivan had male progeny , but his daughter Dr rukmiNi ramaNi has composed a pancaratnam on kapAlIShvarar.

sivachinta1965 · Post by **sivachinta1965** » 25 Sep 2009, 11:24

dear Lakshmanji

Shivashtapadi , as Kmrasika mentioned, like Jayadeva's ashtapathi. Do you have any contact with Rukmini Ramani( ? or Asok Ramani).

Sivaprasad

Lakshman · Post by **Lakshman** » 25 Sep 2009, 16:31

I don't have any contact with them but I have her books of compositions.
There is a kapalishvarar pancaratnam and a tiruvarur pancaratnam.
The songs in the first book are:

nAyakan vinAyakan vaLLI nAyakan in nATa
karpaka nAthanin kazhal in gauLa
kapAlIshanE karuNAkaranE in Arabhi
kAvAdu kai viDudal in varALi
shrI kapAlIshanE in shrI

The songs in the second book are:

ulaguyya kOvil in kAmavardhani
kalpakAmbikai nAthanaE in shahAnA
manam illaiyO in kharaharapriyA
tiruvArUr tirukkOyil in shankarAbharaNa
ArUr nagarurai in kalyANi

keerthi · Post by **keerthi** » 26 Sep 2009, 07:39

there are several compositions which have followed closely, the pattern initiated by JayadEva's KAvya..

there is the gIta-gOpAla of a mysore royalty, the gitagangAdhara, the sangita-rAghavam, and the other two listed below..

I think you are referring to the SivASTapadI composed by chandrashekhara saraswati, the 62nd pontiff of the Kanci kamakOti pITam.

There is a book edited and published by prof.V.Raghavan, called ASTapadI-dvayam, which has a 'RAmASTapadI' and this SivASTapadI as well..

The AStapadi-s fit into jayadEva's template, very well.. For example..

The first one goes -
' kanaka-sabhAsadanE vadanE darahAsaM' which is to the gait of 'pralaya- payOdhi jalE dhRtavanasi vEdaM'

The kanchi sankara maTam may have newer editions/copies of the old edition..

sivachinta1965 · Post by **sivachinta1965** » 29 Sep 2009, 18:05

dear Lakshmanji, Keerthiji

Thanks.

Sivaprasad