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Dks.ita KrtanaPrakasikai

Notated and published by

Nagasvara Vidvan

T. S. Nat.arajasundaram Pil.l.ai(1936)

TRANSLATION AND TYPESETTING BY

P. P. NARAYANASWAMI AND VIDYA JAYARAMAN

2009

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DIKS. ITA KIRTANAPRAKASIKAI

T. S. NAT. ARAJASUNDARAM PIL. L. AI

English Edition (March 2009)

srmad Muttusvami Dks. itar

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DEDICATION

The year 2008, marks the birth

centenary of DR. V. RAGHAVAN(1908-1979), so we dedicate thishumble contribution (in English) to

his pioneering and untiring efforts

in popularizing the compositions

of Muttusvami Dks. itar.

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Dks. ita Krtana Prakasikai

A collection of 50 compositions ofsr Muddusvami Dks.itar

with svara notations

Part 1

written and published by

Nagasvara Vidvan

T. S. Nat.arajasundaram Pil.l.ai

the disciple of Sattanur Pacanada Iyer, and

the son of Tiruppamburam Svaminatha Pil.l.ai

1936 [price Rs. 2.

Contents

Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Notations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Biographies of T. S. Nat.arajasundaram Pil.l.ai and Sattanur Pacanada Iyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

1 svaminatha paripalayasu mam calanat.a adi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 tyagaraja palayasu mam gaul.a adi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 sr sarasvati namostu te arabhi rupakam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 sr kamalambike sr khan. d. a jati ekam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 mamava mnaks. i varal.i misra jati ekam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 mahagan. apatim vande tod. i rupakam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287 candram bhaja manasa asaveri mat.hyam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308 ehi annapurn. e punnagavaral.i adi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319 sr nathadiguruguho jayati mayamal.avagaul.a adi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3310 pacamatangamukha malahari rupakam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3511 sr parvatparamesvarau baul.i adi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3712 suryamurte sauras.t.ram dhruva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3813 sr rajagopala saveri adi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4014 gaur girirajakumari gauri tisra jati ekam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4215 ramacandram bhavayami vasantam rupakam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4516 kajadal.ayataks. i manohari adi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4717 vn. apustaka vegavahini adi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4918 nrajaks. i kamaks. i hindol.am rupakam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5119 manasa guruguha anandabhairavi tisra ekam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5320 tyagarajayogavaibhavam anandabhairavi tisra ekam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5521 balagopala bhairavi adi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5722 pahimam ratnacalanayaka mukhari adi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5923 sr varalaks. mi namastubhyam sr rupakam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6124 mamava pat.t.abhirama man. irangu misra jati ekam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6325 dharmasamvardhani madhyamavati rupakam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6526 tyagarajadanyam darbar adi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6727 ranganayakam nayaki adi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6928 sanadisivakaramace sahana tisra ekam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7129 nlakan. t.ham bhajeham kedaragaul.a rupakam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7330 sr guruguha tarayasu devakriya rupakam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7531 brhannayaki varadayaki andhal.i adi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7632 srramam narayan. agaul.a adi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7733 srsubrahman. yaya namaste kambhoji rupakam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7934 angarakamasrayamisurat.i rupakam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8235 divakaratanujam erukulakambodhi adi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8436 brhaspate at.han. a triput.a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8637 budhamasrayami nat.akuraji misra jhampa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8838 cetah srbalakrs. n. am jujavanti rupakam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9039 aks. ayalingavibho dhrasankarabharan. am misra jati ekam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9340 sadasivamupasmahe dhrasankarabharan. am adi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9541 guruguhaya bhaktanugrahaya sama adi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9742 vatapi gan. apatim hamsadhvani adi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

43 sr balasubrahman. ya bilahari misra jati ekam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10144 tyagarajaya namaste begad. a rupakam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10345 sarasvat manohar sarasvat manohari adi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10646 anandanat.anaprakasam kedaram misra jati ekam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10847 amba nlayataks. i nlambari adi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11048 ks. itijaraman. am devagandhari adi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11249 mnaks. i me mudam dehi gamakakriya adi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11350 bhajare re citta santakalyan. i misra ekam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

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Acknowledgements

We express our sincere and heartfelt thanks to the following persons, who havehelped in various ways, to bring out this English edition of the Tamil work, Dks. itaKrtana Prakasikai (1936) by Sr T. S. Nat.arajasundaram Pil.l.ai.

Professor N. Ramanathan, for providing us with his own personal copy of theoriginal book, his generous guidance and encouragement on a regular basis,and valuable advice with regard to the notation scheme in this book and otherrelated issues.

Dr. B. M. Sundaram, for providing the biographical information of Sr T.S.Nat.a-rajasundaram Pil.l.ai, and the genealogical details of his family.

Shri Ravi Rajagopalan, for translating the introductory portions and the no-tation scheme, for writing the biography of Sattanur Pacanada Iyer, and forproof-reading.

Dr. B. Balasubramanian, for helping us acquire an original copy of the book,during the final stages of proofreading, and for pointing out some minor typos.

Dr. S. Sivaramakrishnan, for carefully proof-reading some of the typed mate-rial.

Shri Naresh Keerthi for kindly pointing out some typos and inconsistencies.

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V. Raghavan

TRANSLATION: He who received the boundless Grace of Lord Subrahma-n. ya, the One who revealed the meaning of Pran. ava ; he who attainedimmortality by bestowing his timeless compositions, the life blood ofour karn. atik music; he who became the soul of the very spirit of Music;he who by his sporting acts and deeds, showed us the essence of thatspirit of Music let him, the revered Muddusvami Dks.itar, conferhis benign blessings on us!

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