Thamizh Songs in Carnatic Music—4 --எப்படிப் பாடினரோ---eppaDip pADinarO

Thamizh Songs in Carnatic Music—4

Composer: Suddhananda Bharathi (SNB)--சுத்தானந்த பாரதியார்

How did they sing? --- எப்படிப் பாடினரோ

 

Composition: eppaDip pADinarO…

Composer:     Suddhananda Bharathi

mudrA:          

(signature):    none

rAgam:           karnATaka dEvaghAndAri (janyam of mELam 22, karaharapriyA )                      

ArOhaNam:     SG₂M₁PN₂S

AvarOhaNam: SN₂D₂PM₁G₂R₂S

tALam:            Adi                                         

ராகம்: கர்நாடக தேவகாந்தாரி

தாளம்: ஆதி  

பல்லவி:       

எப்படிப் பாடினரோ—அடியார்

அப்படிப் பாட நான் ஆசை கொண்டேன் சிவனே          (எப்படிப்)

அனுபல்லவி:    

அப்பரும் சுந்தரரும் ஆளுடைப் பிள்ளையும்

அருள் மணி வாசகரும் பொருள் உணர்ந்தே உன்னையே       (எப்படிப்)

சரணம்:       

குருமணி சங்கரரும் அருமைத் தாயுமானாரும்

அருணகிரிநாதரும் அருட்ஜோதி வள்ளலும்                                                                                

கருணைக் கடல் பெருகி காதலினால் உருகி

கனித் தமிழ்ச் சொல்லினால் இனிதுனை அனுதினம்               (எப்படிப்)

Lyrics in Roman script

Pallavi:            eppaDip pADinarO—aDiyAr

                        appaDip pADa nAn Asai koNDEn shivanE            (eppaDip)

anupallavi:     apparum su^ndararum ALuDaip piLLaiyum

                        aruL maNi vAcakarum poruL uNar^ntE unnaiyE   (eppaDip)

CaraNam:       gurumaNi shankararum arumait tAyumAnArum

                        aruNagirinAtarum aruTjOthi vaLLalum

                        karuNaik kaDal perugi kAdalinAl urugi

                        kanit tamizhc collinAl inidunai anudinam               (eppaDip)

                               

Source for lyrics:  Amutham CD WS003 booklet insert

Meaning:

P:         Oh, Lord Shiva I want to sing your praise in the same manner done by your                       (famous) devotees.

A:        Appar, Sundarar, TirugnAna Sambandar, and MANicka VAcagar sang about you               

in all meaningful splendor.

C:        GurumaNi Shankarar, brilliant ThAyumAnAr, AruNagirinAthar, and the  beacon of grace, RAmalinga  VaLLalAr---all these great souls out of boundless love for you and an ocean of grace sang about you everyday using sweet Thamizh words.

General Comments:

This song is a paean on Lord ShivA as well as the twin quartets of ShivA’s famous devotees. The first quartet of Appar (also known as TirunAvukkarasar), SundaramUrthy nAyanAr, TirugnAna Sambandar, and MANikka VAcagar lived in the first millennium CE. Of this quartet, the first three are known as tEvAram trinity and are members of the group of famous devotees of ShivA, known as 63 nAyanmArs. MANicka VAcagar, who lived much later than the 63 nAyanmArs, was technically the 64^th nAyanmAr. All the four contributed to the growth of Shaivism against established Jainism in the Thamizh country by composing songs on Lord ShivA at various shrines.

The song is also a tribute to the second quartet of Adi ShankarA (788-820 CE), ThAyumAnavar (18^th century CE??), AruNagirinAthar (15^th century CE), and RAmalinga vaLLalAr (1823-1874 CE). Adi ShankarA went far and wide in India to spread Shaivism by debating and defeating other competing religious sect leaders. ThAyumanavar wrote 1400 hymns in simple Thamizh with profound meaning. AruNagirinAthar was a devout Murugan worshipper, who wrote myriad songs on Murugan including the famous Tiruppugazh. RAmalinga vaLLalAr, with no formal education, wrote thousands of verses inculcating universal love and peace, all of which are compiled in a book called “TiruvaruTpA”.

The composer wanted to draw inspiration from the great saint poets to write his own compositions. Such a desire openly manifested in this simple invocatory song. The beauty of this song lies in the deference that the composer had for the great shaivite saint philosophers-cum-poets which is expressed succinctly.

Composer’s Bio:

Suddhananda Bharathi (1897-1937) was a yOgi, devotee, and freedom fighter all mixed in one. He was modesty personified. He wrote a lot of poems in Thamizh on bhakti, peace, and universal love with an easy flow of the language. Many of his songs have been set to music by others, among them Calcutta K. S. Krishnamurthy figuring prominently.

Some of the songs of Suddhananda Bharathi that are popular are: aruL purivAi (hamsadwani), kaNNeDuttAkilum kANIrO (simmEndra madyamam), sakala kalA vANiyE (kEdAram), tUkkiya tiruvaDi (shankarAbharaNam), jangAra shruti seiguvAi (pUrvikalyANi), and kaNNanE en kaNavan (kalyANi).

Listen to D K PattammAL here

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Listen to T M Soundararajan here

Listen to Unnikrishnan here

To listen to Sriranjani Santhanagopalan,   http://www.mediafire.com/listen/kzax3zqlpvdnz6h/04-eppaDi_pADinarO-karnATakadEvagAndhAr-suddhananda_bharati-Sriranjani_Santhanagopalan.mp3a

Listen to Nisha Rajagopalan here