Ashtapathi Tamil Lyrics

[Aleshia Ducharme]

My brother and his wife have come on a lunch visit.. The missus and my sister-in-law are great friends,despite being co-sisters-in-law, ( an elegant Indianism, i have coined) , within the family.. If they have transcended the sibling-in-law-rivalry, it is mainly due to their common love for music or perhaps because they both are getting older.

I explain it to the missus the story behind the appellations tagged to the 19th Ashtapadi. The story is apocryphal, but it is representative of the love and affection with which the author and his lyrics are regarded to this day by music lovers.

Jaya Deva is happy. His new work, Gita Govindam, has been progressing briskly, without hitch. His devotion to The Lord and his love for poetry, music and dance oozed out of each of his lyrics.. He begins to pen the 19th Ashtapadi.. Words spill out facilely without his having to think. He is ecstatic.

They raise their hands and join their palms together in silent salutation to the Great Lord. The visions (Darsanams), Jayadeva had had, before setting forth to record them on paper were no mere hallucnations of a heated imagination, This indeed is a Darsana Ashtapadi, Padmavathi, concludes.

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