Audio of some Sanskrit texts

[K S Kannan]

Released just now:

Rāma-bhujaṅgaprayata-stotra

(under 10 minutes):

https://youtu.be/b63EfdiO1mM

Suggestions for improvement are welcome:
kannana...@gmail.com

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Dr. K.S.Kannan  D.Litt.

Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj Chair Professor, IIT-Madras.

Senior Fellow, ICSSR, New Delhi.

Academic Director, Swadeshi Indology.

Member, Academic Council, Veda Vijnana Shodha Samsthana.

Nominated Member, IIAS, Shimla.

Former Professor, CAHC, Jain University, Bangalore.

Former Director, Karnataka Samskrit University, Bangalore.

Former Head, Dept. of Sanskrit, The National Colleges, Bangalore.

[Madhav Deshpande]

Listened to the whole stotra. Very melodious and calming. Thank you Dr. Meera and Professor Kannan.

Madhav M. Deshpande

Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies

Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]

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[Gudsoorkar A G]

Exceptionally melodious !!

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[Bijoy Misra]

चञ्चरीमञ्जरीलोलभालम्  with मञ्जिरा - Kashi Kirtan..

Loved it.. I used to stop by at Kashi in my early visits to India and witnessed some of these.

Congratulations.

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[K S Kannan]

Thank you Prof. Deshpande, Gudsoorkar-ji, and Misra-ji,

The beauty of the singing is essentially due to the beauty of the original text:

so effortlessly composed!

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[Gudsoorkar A G]

Dr Kannan,

Pl permit me to ask the name of the composer and the chhandas.

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[K S Kannan]

It has already been mentioned :

The metre is Bhujaṅga-prayāta, and

the composer is Śrī Śaṅkarācārya.

Pl. go through the Description Box also.

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[Gudsoorkar A G]

I deeply regret my ignorance.

Dr Meera,

The melody in your voice is God’s gift and your Sadhana.  The fervour in your rendering is Divine Grace, one should pray for oneself.  🙏🙏🙏.

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[Prabhu]

Prof Kannan-ji and Dr Meera-ji 

Beautiful presentation! May more such audios come out your efforts!

I have a related question (addressed to all...)

Are there any well known (and possibly documented) associations between various vRRitta-s and classical rAga(s) that befiting those vRRitta-s?

We come across many of stotra-s  each in a variety of chandas/vRRitta-s but are mostly recited in a monotonic and  drab way. It would be good if there are well known chandas/vRRitta --> rAga associations which can be followed in the absence of anything better. May be who well versed in gamakakalA could weigh in...

From top of my head.. some of the stotra-s, that I know and hear often are in vRRitta-s like:

- shloka / anuShTup

- indravajra / upendravajra

- vasantatilakA

- shikhariNI

- bhujangapratyaya

- mAlinI

- mandAkrAnta

- shArdUlavikrIDita

- sragdharA

- ashvadhATI

Regards

Prabhu

[Nagaraj Paturi]

Guru-laghu pattern in different vrittas / Sanskrit meters may determine a certain taala / rhythm or (at least apparent) no taala / no rhythm.  

It is the idea and emotion in the verse,  not the  meter that demands a raaga. 

Bhujangaprayaata, the meter in the present case, is one of the rhythmic Sanskrit meters. 

The Raaga Sindhubhairavi used has been well employed by her to bring out the Bhakti in the stotra. 

Though there can be and in fact, there are, correlations between emotions and raagas listed in ancient and contemporary works, creative music composers can always go beyond such listed correlations.  

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Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.

Director, Indic Academy

BoS, MIT School of Vedic Sciences, Pune, Maharashtra

BoS, Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth, Veliyanad, Kerala

BoS Veda Vijnana Gurukula, Bengaluru.

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BoS Rashtram School of Public Leadership

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Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies, 

FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education, 

Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.

 

 

 

[K S Kannan]

Thank you, Prabhu-ji and Paturi-ji.

Prof. Paturi has more or less answered the question(s) raised by Prabhu-ji.

Broadly speaking, certain vr̥tta-s predispose themselves to certain tāla-s more naturally.

On the other hand, certain metres are more suitable for certain bhāva-s too.

Metres thus can serve as a bridge sometimes between bhāva and tāla:

Pañcacāmara, for example, suits best for the tāṇḍava-varṇana.

And further, it is through certain rāga-s that certain bhāva-s

articulate themselves more naturally.

The dozen metres Prabhu-ji has listed are indeed some of the most popular vr̥tta-s,

especially in our stotra-literature.

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