Jagadabhi Rama Janaki Rama - Sahithyam

[alamelu]

Dear Rasikas,

Could someone share the sahithyam for Jagadabhi Rama? I would really be grateful.

Many thanks.

With regards,

Alamelu

[Lakshman]

jagadbhi rAmA. rAgA: kAnaDA. Adi tALA. Vinai Kuppier.

P: jagadabhi rAmA jAnakI rAmA
A: agaNita nAmA ambuda shyAmA rakula sOmA rAkSasa bhImA
C1: purahara mitra puNya caritra suranuti pAtra sundara gAtra
2: kara dhrta shApa khaNDita pApa narvara rUpA nammija nAbhA
3: shrIsha gOpAla dAsAnukUla bhUsutA lOlA budhajana pAla

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Some alterations;
In c1 it is "kara dhrta cApa"
In the same line it is "naravara"

[Lakshman]

Thanks for the corrections.

[Rajani]

Similarly it must be "raghu-kula sOma" or "ravi-kula sOm" in the AP.

[alamelu]

Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. Have been looking for the sahithyam for quite some time now.

With regards,

- Alamelu

[PUNARVASU]

'nammija nAbha'?
similar to 'jalaja nAbha'?

[Lakshman]

I checked in the book. Rajani is probably correct about the word being raghu kula. But the character ku is missing in the text. The first character of ..ammija is also not clear. It could be Rammija (R as in "arivu"). Does it make more sense?

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May be it is "ambuja nAbha"?

[Lakshman]

I don't think it is. I can send the scanned lyrics to anyone who would like to interpret it.

[Rajani]

Please send them to me, Lji.

[mukta]

Is it 'nIraja nAbha'?
That seems to be nearest to 'nammija'

[PUNARVASU]

V.S.Apte's dictionary says 'nadIjam' also means lotus. May be that is what it is. But somehow I can not picture a lotus as being 'nadIja', though technically it is correct.

[Lakshman]

I located an old recording of Mysore B.S.Raja Iyengar singing this song and the word is "namraja nAbha".

[Rajani]

L-ji, now it makes sense.
namra-jana - humble person
Abha - having the (same)brightness as , similar to

So the phrase can be taken to mean " one who is a like a very humble person ie, humble himself"

PS: Thanks for sending me the lyrics. The print seemed to have "nammija" and so I was still wondering.

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Rajani ji,
Thank you.Really astounding!
To quote from an ad,"Wah!Sanskrit"

[PUNARVASU]

Rajani, I could work till namra jana; Abha eluded me.Thanks.
I was really wondering what it could mean and could not rest until it became clear.

[keerthi]

The pallavi--swara-kalpavalli telugu edition, by T.TyAgayyar, the composer's son, does give nammijanAbha; and not namra-janABha, as we have surmised here.

If B.S.Rajaiyengar learnt from the notation, he may have made the same mistake as us, since the telugu mma looks like the kannaDa mra.


Rajani,I have never seen this kind of epithet, either by itself, or in a synonymised form in or kAvya or stOtra literature. I fear it is a case of a typo in the handwritten manuscript, or a case of the printer's devil.

[Rajani]

Keerthi - quite likely. I too have not encountered this kind of compound anywhere.

Mrs S - thanks. Please do not use a "ji" for me.

[Lakshman]

Thanks Rajani for solving this mystery..