Launch of website on Oottukkadu Venkata Kavi

[divyamramesh]

A website on Oottukkadu Venkata Kavi will be launched today at Hamsadhwani at 6 pm.

This website aims to provide all information with respect to OVK's compositions and contributions.

[nadhasudha]

Good news! Can you please provide the link to the website? Thanks

[Always_Evolving]

Just posted on http://www.rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic. ... 58#p235258

anyhow it's http://www.venkatakavi.org

[nadhasudha]

Kudos to the team behind this effort! Checked out the website and there is a lot of well organized information, including notations for some compositions of OVK.

[venkatakailasam]

This is Just for information...

My blog saieswara contains songs of Oottukkadu Venkata Kavi at the following links..

http://e-swari.blogspot.in/2011/05/song ... vi_14.html 55 songs

http://e-swari.blogspot.in/2011/05/song ... -kavi.html 21 songs

They are available for both listening and download

[bhargavi_b]

I request all rasikas and students of music to go through the site and post their feedback in the feedback form or email me. More information, lyrics, notations and audios will be regularly updated on this site and I hope it will be useful for rasikas. I am very thankful to Chitravina Shri Ravikiran for inspiring me to do this site and Hamsadhwani and its committee members for readily accepting to launch the site at their inaugural function yesterday.

[priyaram78]

Excellent tribute to the great composer. Very happy that a website dedicated to Shri Venkatakavi has come up. Please post meaning of songs too.. you have covered almost every aspect of his life . Positive approach is what makes devotion sustain, and shri Ovk had this. Came to know from your website. Thanks. Right from childhood, have been listening to his compositions, but without knowing the meaning. So please include meaning of his songs too. Thank you.

[rshankar]

PriyaRam - I understand that this is not a big list, but here are some of the translations and discussions we have had on the compositions of Sri OVK on this forum:
pArvai oNDrE pOdumE
SeNDru vA nI rAdhE
pullAi piravi tara vENDum - Post 1 on
Eka danta vinAyakam Post 15 on
kalyANa rAmA Post 38 on
sarasijabhava jAyE Post 46
svAgatam kRshNA Post 51
pAl vaDiyum mugam - Should make Arun very happy
alaipAyudE kaNNA
manamayakkum iSai kOlE Not sure if this is truly Sri OVK's - can someone please confirm?
Selected caraNams from tAyE yaSOdA
nI dAn mecci koLLa vENDum
innum enna vENum
eppaDitAn yen uLLam pugundennai aDimai koNDIrO
Two versions of sonnadai kEL kaNNA
sundara nanda kumArA
nIla lOhita ramaNI
marakata maNimaya cELA
vAngum enakku
madanAnga mOhana sukumAranE
kathaya kathaya
ADAdu asangAdu vA kaNNA
praNavAkAram
vandaduvum pOnaduvum
asaindADum mayilonru kaNDAl

[uday_shankar]

Wonderful work, Bhargavi ! Look forward to exploring the site.

[priyaram78]

Thanks rshankar. Very kind of you. Also there is a translation of this song Enna Punniyam Seidheno SatgurunAthA in reethi gowlai. I dont have the link though. All gems of Sri Venkatakavi. Thanks.

[bhargavi_b]

Priyaram - thanks for your feedback. We plan to include meanings for krtis shortly. Many songs' meanings have been discussed in this forum already as mentioned by rshankar.

[rshankar]

Bhargavi - awesome site - congratulations!

Can you (or Sri Ravi Kiran) confirm if the viruttam 'manamayakkum iSai kOlE..' is a composition of Sri OVK?

[eesha]

Great initiative. With ref to the page http://www.venkatakavi.org/ovk/index.ph ... mpositions , can the raga and thala be included in the list ??

[bhargavi_b]

rshankar - I am not really sure of whose viruttam this is. I have not come across this one in the list of viruttams I have seen so far. You should probably check with the artiste who has rendered this.

eesha - We did not include the raga & tala information in this as the details for all these compositions are already covered in different menus under divine equations, raconteur etc.