Thamizh Songs in Carnatic Music—11-- Paruvam pArkka--- பருவம் பார்க்க

Thamizh Songs in Carnatic Music—11

Paruvam pArkka--- பருவம் பார்க்க

rAgam: dhanyAsi (தன்யாசி)    tALam: rUpakam (ரூபகம்)

Composer: Anai-ayyA brothers (also known as VaiyachEri brothers)

Background: This song is in praise of the presiding goddess, MangaLAmbikai, in the local temple known as agastIshar temple in the village of VaiyachEri (near ThanjAvUr). The composer brothers were born in this town and lived there and surrounding villages including tiruvaiyARu. Read their biography given at the end of this article.

பல்லவி :

பருவம் பார்க்க நியாயமா பராத்பரியே பக்தனிடத்தில்

அனுபல்லவி:

மருவும் இந்த வையையூரில் வாழும் மங்களாம்பிகையே   (பருவம்)

சரணம்1:

பாதி மதியை சூடி சபையில் ஆடும் அகஸ்தீசர் தன்னுள்                                                                                                          பாதியில் அமர்ந்த பாக்யம் உன் பாக்யம்                                                                       

ஆதி முதல் உன் பாதமலர் ஒன்றே கதி என்றோதும் எனை                                                                                      அனாதியாய்  செய்யாமல் குனி ஆதி க்ருபானிதி நாதரூபி       (பருவம்)

சரணம்2:

பிறப்பிறப்பறும் புவியில் உனது பெருமைகள் என்றும் புகழ்ந்திராமல்                                                                            திறமென்று கும்பிக்-கிரை தேடித் தீவினைக்கிடமானேன்

இரவுபகல்உன்னிருபதமலர்இதயமலரிற்பதியஅருள் செய்                                                                       

சிறு வயதில் அடிமை கொண்டிப்படிச் 

சிறுமை செய்வதும் பெருமையோ சொல்  (பருவம்)

சரணம்3:

மன மலரினில் அன்னமென வளர் மரகத வடிவமிகு மயிலே                                                                         மனைவியர் மையல் வலை அகற்றிட மருந்து நீயென்று நினைந்தேன்                                              தனதுடலென்று   தரணியில்  உமாதாஸன் துதிக்கும் தாயே நீயென்று                                                              தனபதி முதல் அனைவரும் தொழும் தாளிணைக் காளாகும் என்னைப்     (பருவம்)

Lyrics in Roman script

Pallavi :

paruvam pArkka nyAyamA parAtpariyE bhaktaniDattil

Anupallavi:

maruvum inda vaiyaiyUril vAzhum mangaLAmbikaiyE

CaraNam1:

pAdi matiyai sUDi sabhaiyil ADum agastIshar tannuL
                                                                          

pAdiyil amarnda bhAgyam un bhAgyam

Adi mudal un pAdamalar onrE gati enROdum enai
                                                                                              
anAdiyAi seyyAmal kuni Adi kripAnidhi nAdarUpi

caraNam2:

piRappiRappaRum bhuviyil unadu perumaigaL enRum pugazhndirAmal 

tiRamenRu kumbik-kirai tEDit tIvinaikkiDamAnEn 

iravupagal unniru padamalar idayamalariR padiya arul sey 
                                                                            

siRu vayadil aDimai koNDippaDic ciRumai seyvadum perumaiyO sol

caraNam3:

mana malarinil annamena vaLar marakata vaDivamigu mayilE 
                                                     

manaiviyar maiyal valai agaTriDa marundu nIyenRu ninaindEn 

tanaduDalenRu   dharaNiyil  umAdASan tudikkum tAyE nIyenRu

dhanapati mudal anaivarum tozhum tALiNaik kALAgum ennaip

Meaning:

Pallavi: Is it proper for you to wait for an opportune time, Oh divine mother, to help your devotee?

Anupallavi: MangaLAmbikE, you dwell in this town (vaiyachEri) full of fragrant bushes.

CaraNam1: You are fortunate to occupy half the body of agastIshar who dances in the hall sporting the crescent moon on his head. I have been considering you as my succor from the beginning. Please do not make me a helpless person, Oh compassionate one?

CaraNam2: You get rid of our multiple births in this world. Without singing your praise I have been living a mundane life seeking food for my stomach thinking that is the proper way to do thereby earning sinful consequence. Please help me think of your sacred feet and plant them in my heart. After enslaving me early on is it proper for you to subject me to a lowly status?

CaraNam3: You are sitting on my heart (flower) like a swan with an emerald hue. You are my refuge to get away from the marital bondage. You are the one I, umAdAsan, worship in this world. All the celestials including KubEran (lord of wealth) worship your sacred feet. When will you take me under your wings?

Composers’ Bio:

Anai ayyar and ayyA ayyar were the cousins of Doraiswamy ayyar, the father of the composer-musician brothers, Ramaswami Sivan and Maha Vaidyanatha Sivan. They lived in the early to mid-part of 19^th century and taught music to the two Sivans. They were junior contemporaries of the composers, Thyagaraja, Syama Sastri, and Muttuswamy Dikshitar, collectively known as the Trinity of Carnatic music. They lived in Vaiyacheri and Tiruvaiyaru in Thanjavur district. They were patronized by the king Serfoji II of ThanjAvUr. Together they wrote at least 26 Thamizh and 12 Telugu compositions that are currently available. They use the signature “umAdAsan” in their kritis.

Their theme was devotion sprinkled with philosophy. They sang as a pair on Lord Siva and Devi. Their favorite deities are MangaLAmbikai of Vaiyacheri (the subject of the song under discussion), Dharmasamvardhani (aRam vaLartta nAyaki in Thamizh) of Tiruvaiyaru , and PranatArtihara/pancanadIswarar (also known as ayyArappan in Thamizh) of Tiruvaiyaru.

Other songs of Anai Ayya Brothers that are devotional and philosophical are: varmamA en mIdil (sAvEri rAgam), bhajanai seyyavE (kEdAram), inda paraka (nAdanAmakriyA), and amba nannu, a Telugu song (tODi).

Audio links are given below:

Listen to S Ramanathan   here 

Listen to Anathalakshmi Sadagopan here   (click song # 5)

Listen to Savita Narasimhan here
Listen to Padma Sugavanam here 

The song in Thamizh script with musical notations from a handwritten manuscript is reproduced below from                                                                                      http://veekayes.blogspot.com/2009/07/aaniyaa-composition-paruvam-paarka.html