Thamizh Songs in Carnatic Music—12--- KArthikeyanai----கார்த்திகேயனை

Thamizh Songs in Carnatic Music—12

KArthikeyanai----கார்த்திகேயனை

rAgam:  kApi (காபி).  rUpaka tALam (ரூபகம்)

Composer: MAyUram Viswanatha SAstry

 (signature) mudrA: viswam or vEdapuri

                

This song was on the Murugan temple in kadirkAmam (in Srilanka)

           

பல்லவி: 

கார்த்திகேயனை கண்ணாரக்-காண வேணுமே கன மிகவருள் திரு

அனுபல்லவி:

கீர்த்தி மேவும் கதிர் காம சீர்த்தியை இரு செவிகளில் இனிதருளிய திரு

சரணம்: 

பாரகம் தனிலே பக்தர் கூறிடும் முன்னமே துயர்   

தீர்க்கவே கையில் ஊக்கமாய்  வேலைத்-தாங்கி நிற்பவனை

தாரக சிங்க முகாதியரைத்-தீர்த்து சுகம் வார்த்து அருள்        

மார ஜனக மருகனைத்-திரு முருகனை விஸ்வ மனோஹரனை

Lyrics in Roman script

Pallavi: 

kArtikEyanai kaNNArak-kANa vENumE ghana mighavaruL tiru

anupallavi:

kIrti mEvum kadir kAma sIrttiyai iru sevigaLil inidaruLiya tiru

CaraNam: 

pArakam tanilE bhaktar kURiDum munnamE tuyar   

tIrkkavE kaiyil UkkamAi vElait-tAngi niRpavanai

tAraka singa mukhAdiyarait-tIrttu sukham vArttu aruL       

mAra janaka maruganait-tiru muruganai vishva manOharanai

Meaning:

Pallavi: I have to feast my eyes on  glorious lord KArthikEyan  to my heart’s delight.

Anupallavi: He is the reason for the fame of KadirkAmam that I have heard about.

CaraNam: In this earth (pArakam) even before the devotees make their appeal for help,  he hastens with his spear in his hand to eliminate their miseries. He killed the three asurAs, tArakAsuran, singamukan, and SUrapadman and thereby offered relief for the celestials. He is the nephew of Vishnu (the progenitor of MAran---also known as Manmathan/Cupid). He is Murugan the darling of the world.

Composer’s Bio:

Mayuram Viswanatha Sastry (1893-1958) was born in Terezhundur, near Mayuram, the same place where the great Thamizh poet Kamban was also born. He was drawn to music through his mother. From a young age he had a flare for composing music.

He studied vEdAs and Sanskrit while young. He was initiated into music by Fiddle Subbaiyer. Later he learned music from teachers in Chettinadu. He became a professional musician and gradually turned into a composer. He published several books of which, “VaLLi PariNaya MaNipravALa Satakam”, “Murugan PugazhmAlai”, and “Murugan Keertanai” are noteworthy.  He was also the first person to set TirukkuRaL verses to music.

Other songs of Mayuram Viswanatha Sastry (MVS) that are recognized for their literal beauty are: kaiviDalAgadaiyyA (shankarAbharaNam), srImahAgaNapatE (nATTai), jayati jayati bhAratamAtA (khamAs), samarasa bhAvana (AbhEri), aDakkmuLLor miga aRivilAr enReNNI (kAmbhoji), AdaravAi amba anudinamum (mOhanam), kaNda kumara (tODi), shaNmugam pAdam cilamboli nAdam (shaNmugapriyA) and sonnadaic ceydiDa sAhasamA (rAgamAlikai). The last song has been featured here: http://periscope-narada.blogspot.com/2013/11/sonnadaic-ceydida-sahasama.html

The late musicians G. N. Balasubramanian (GNB), and Madurai Mani Iyer (MMI) popularized many of MVS’s songs. The khamAs piece “jayati jayati bhArata matA”, rendered by the late Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer on August 15, 1947 in honor of Indian independence  was especially well-liked by listeners as it kindled nationalistic feelings.

Reference:http://carnatica.net/composer/viswanathasastri.htm

Some Audio clips:
Listen to Vairamangalam Lakshminarayan here 

Listen to S. Gayathri here

Listen to Dhanya Subramanian here