Thamizh Songs in Carnatic Music—22b PadaRi varuguthu---பதறி வருகுது

Thamizh Songs in Carnatic Music—22b

PadaRi varuguthu---பதறி வருகுது

Composer: Subbarama Iyer (சுப்பராம அய்யர்)

ராகம்: காம்போஜி.(KAmbhOji)   ரூபக தாளம் (rUpakam)

This song is a padam wherein a gamut of human emotions is displayed. The navarasas (nine types of emotions) come into play. The composer can choose from any of the classification of nAyikAs (heroines) and nAyakas (heroes) in their different moods to express his/her feelings and thoughts and relationships, with God (devotional aspect), to portray the empirical world.  On the face of it the padam appears to dwell on mundane matters and carnal instincts but the underlying idea in padams is to be taken as jIvAtma’s yearning for union with paramAtma. Some examples of padams are: adhuvum solluval, VElavarE umait tEDi, ettanai sonnAlum, Unnait  tUdu anuppinEn. 

In the current song our heroine is in a mental turmoil of missing the company of her lord Murugan in Pazhani. She sends her close friend as a messenger to her lord. She requests her friend to bring her lord to her as she is in love pangs. She thinks her lord will embrace her and enchant her. She commands her friend to cajole her lord so that he would come forthwith. There is plenty of alliteration and rhythmic weaving of words. The composer also introduces the name of the rAgam in the verse in an unobtrusive manner.

 Let us see what her actual request is.

பல்லவி:

பதறி வருகுதுருகு தென்னாவி                                                                     பதைக்குது வகை சொல்லடி சற்றே
நில்லடி மனம் கல்லோடி யடி                                                           தளுக்கு குலுக்கு மினுக்கென்ன போடி

 அனுபல்லவி:

எதிரில்லாத பழனியில் வேலவர்

இடத்தில் உறுத்தி கருத்தை வைத்த பின்

எதோ மதங்கணை மார்பினில் சோருதே

எந்தன் துரை கந்தசாமியை கூட்டி வா

சரணம்:

வாடி எந்தன் வடிவேலரை கூட்டி வா                                           கூடி மருவிக் குலாவி விளையாட
பாடுவார் காம்போதி மாயப்பொடி                                                           போடுவார் என் மீது போடி அவரைப்போல்
ஈடு ஜோடுண்டோடி பிடித்தார் எந்தன் கை                                     கொடுத்தார் மாணிக்கம்                                                             நாடியவர் கேட்ட செஞ்சொற் பதம் பாடி                                         மோடி செய்யாமலே தேடி அழைத்து வா

Lyrics in Roman script follow.

P: padaRi varugudurugu dennAvi                                                                                        

 padaikkudu vaghai sollaDi saTrE 
nillaDi manam kallODi yaDi                                                                                                      

 taLukku kulukku minukkenna pODi 

A: edirillAda pazhaniyil vElavar                                                                                                  

 iDattil uRutti karuttai vaitta pin edO 
mathankaNai mArbinil sOrudE                                                                                                        

endan durai kandasAmiyai kUTTi vA

C: vADi endan vaDivElarai kUTTi vA                                                                                            

kUDi maruvik-kulAvi viLaiyADa 
pADuvAr kAmbhOji mAyappoDi                                                                                                

 pODuvAr en mIdu pODi avaraippOl 
IDu jODuNDODi piDittAr endan kai                                                                                               

koDuttAr mANikkam nADiyavar 
kETTa sencoR padam pADi                                                                                                         

 mODi seyyAmalE tEDi azhaittu vA

Meaning:                                                                                                                                          Pallavi: My body trembles and my life is unstable. Please suggest a way out of this complexity. Are you hard-hearted? Do not play around, oh friend, making fun of me.

Anupallavi:  I placed my love and trust on the lord at Pazhani, who has no rival. From then on I feel the arrows of Cupid on my chest. Please bring my lord, Kandan, to me.

CaraNam: Please bring my vaDivElan to me so that we two can embrace and have fun. He will sing the melody KAmbOji for me and enchant me with his charm. There is nobody like him to be a match for me. He held my hand and gave me a precious stone. Go to him and sing his praise. Then do whatever it takes to bring him here without any excuse. 

                                                               

Audio clips for the song rendition

http://mio.to/show/Composer/Ghanam+Krishnair

Listen to S. Sowmya here    (scroll down to item #5 in the list)

Listen to Jon Higgins here  (scroll down to where Jon Higgins’ name appears)

Listen to Subhashini Parthasarathy here 

  Watch a bharathanATyam performance on this padam                       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xa9BeK1x24

Thamizh songs in carnatic music—14-- கலியுக வரதன்---kaliyuga varadan

Thamizh songs in carnatic music—14

கலியுக வரதன்---kaliyuga varadan

Composer :  PeriasAmy tUran  (பெரியசாமி தூரன்)

(rAgam) ராகம் : ப்ருந்தாவன சாரங்கா (BrindAvana sAranga)

(tALam) தாளம் : ஆதி (Adi)

22 kharaharapriya janyam
ArOhaNam: S R2 M1 P N3 S
avarOhaNam: S N2 P M1 R2 G2 R2 S

பல்லவி

கலியுக வரதன் கண் கண்ட தெய்வமாய்
காட்சியளிப்பது பழனியிலே                        (கலியுக)

அனுபல்லவி 

மலைமகள் அருளிய சக்திவேல் முருகன்
மரகத வண்ணனாம் திருமால் மருகன்               (கலியுக)

சரணம்

கண்ணுதற் கடவுளின் கண்மணியாய் வந்தான்
கார்த்திகைப் பெண்டிர்கள் அணைப்பில் வளர்ந்தான்
விண்ணவர் குறையெல்லாம் நொடியில் களைந்தான்
வேண்டுவோர் வேண்டுமுன் வரமெல்லாம் தந்தான்   (கலியுக        

Lyrics in Roman script

pallavi

kaliyuga varadan kaN kaNDa deyvamAy
kATciyaLippadu pazhaniyilE                (kaliyuga)

anupallavi
malaimagaL aruLiya shaktivEl murugan
marakada vaNNanAm tirumAl marugan       (kaliyuga)

caraNam
kaNNudaR kaDavuLin kaNmaNiyAy vandAn
kArttigaip peNDirgaL aNaippil vaLarndAn
viNNavar kuRaiyellAm noDiyil kaLaindAn
vENDuvOr vENDumun varamellAm tandAn    (kaliyuga)

Meaning:

Pallavi: The boon-giving lord in the kaliyugam appears in Pazhani for everyone to view.

Anupallavi:  He is the one who wields the powerful spear given to him by his divine mother goddess PArvati (known as malai magaL in Thamizh, girijA in Sanskrit ----daughter of the mountain HimavAn). He is green-hued and he is the nephew of tirumAl (PArvati and tirumAl are considered sister and brother)

CaraNam: He came as the darling son of the god with an eye on the forehead (Lord Shiva). He was reared by the Krithika ladies. He solved the problems of the celestials in short order. He gives boons to those devotees even before they seek them.

Commentary: This is a very simple paean to Lord Murugan who dwells on top of the hill at Pazhani. He took abode there (according to purANAs) after a dispute over a divine fruit between him and his divine brother GaNapati. The mythological episodes of his origin from Shiva’s third eye and his getting the divine spear from his goddess mother (PArvati) to annihilate the demon Surapadman (who was giving troubles to the celestials) are common lore.

Composer’s Bio: Periasamy ThUran (PT) (1908-1987) was born in MoDakkurichi in Coimbatore district. Right from his childhood he showed precocity for an intellectual pursuit. As a child he was greatly inspired by Mahakavi Subramanya Bharathi. He became a teacher for a living but his passion was to become a poet. He wrote about 600 songs in all with spiritual, moral, and national themes. He was very patriotic and his song “ADu rATTEy” was a hit during the freedom struggle.

PT was not a musician but he sought out some musical gurus both to learn some music and to set his songs to music. He published “isai maNi manjari” in 5 volumes. He published several other books. His major achievement was serving as the chief editor to publish a Thamizh Encyclopedia in 10 volumes.

Some other songs PT of that are rendered in concert circuits and commercial recordings are: tAyE tripura sundari (suddasAvEri), muraLIdarA gOpAlA (mAnD), murugA murugA (sAvEri), gaNa nAthanE (sArangA), and engu nAn selvEn (dwijaAvanthi).

Some audio and video clips

Listen to R Suryaprakash here

Listen to Bombay Sisters here

Listen to Bombay Jayashree here

Listen to Sudha Ragunathan here

Listen to Sangeetha sivakumar here

               Listen to Shankari Krishnan here  

Listen to N S Kamakshi  here  

                                                                        

Vidhyalakshmi sings here