hi! i am Rupa Sridhar,a musician based in Bangalore. i would like to extend my humble services for your dasa sahithya project. i have often grieved when front line musicians sing wrong sahithya. i am willing to help.

Thanks for that. The way me (and family) have learnt it, the second line of the first charanam has "nelidu butti" (meaning born in a womb).

Also the third charanam is rather different the way I know it - "manO vaak kaayadinda maadida karmavu..." is the first line, and "swami" is used instead of "dEva"

I think that this is one of Purandaradasa's greatest compositions, being emotive, having a philosophical bent and also for being in one of my favourite ragas - Kalyanavasantham.

There used to be a site 'www.musicalnirvana.com'. This site had almost all lyrics of Purandaradasa.
Unfortunately, someone else has usurped this site and it it is no longer accessible. If anyone could tell me how to access this site now, I would be grateful. Incidentally, this site had the lyrics of other composers also (Swati Tirunal. Papanasam Sivan, Syama Sastri etc.)

Dr J Subbiah

Dr. J. Subbiah: That site lives on in an incomplete way in the internet archive site: http://www.archive.org

You can start here for the nemerous archives of musicalnirvana: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://musicalnirvana.com

Here is the link to the list of purandaradasa compositions from that archive:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080113041129/www.musicalnirvana.com/script/carnatic_compositions.asp?composer=Purandaradasa

It can be frustrating since many links do not work. You may have some luck in searching the archive for those missing links. The problem is, if a link is
based on a server side script, these types of archive links do not work. Unfortunatley, the lyrics links are of that kind.

An effort is being made to make available audio files of purandaradAsa krtis alongwith lyrics and meanings. Presently (see below) the folder contains about 280 renditions of about 100 krtis. I have another 300 renditions of about 100 krtis which would also be added to the list in due course.

Though I tend to work somewhat erratically, I would certainly want to contribute to the wiki project,

http://sangeethamshare.org/murthy/172-Purandaradasa-Kritis-385-Nos/

Murthy HMG

Thanks for bhagyada lakshmi meaning. I got it without asking for

Hi,
I am looking for the song "Pavadisu Paramaatmane" composed by Purundara dasa & sung by Dr. Bala Muruli Krishna, Can anybody help me in getting the song.

Rajesh

Sudha Saveri mostly not singing in sabhas there not prepaared ..................... ?

In most of the singers they refused to sing sudha saveri raaga alaapanas ?

Hi
Can anyone give me word by word meaning for Purandara composition "Muruthi yanu Nilliso Madhava"
thanks
US

Could anyone share the lyrics of the Purandara composition "maDi maDi maDi endu" in the raga Behag. I have not been able to locate this song anywhere on the internet.

Thanks!

Regards,
Abhay

maDi maDi maDi. rAgA: shankarAbharaNa. Adi tALA.

P: maDi maDi maDiyendu aDigaDigahAruve maDi mADu bage bEruNTu
A: poDavi pAlakana pAda dhyAnavanu biDade mADuvudadu maDiyu
C1: baTTeya nIroLagatti onagisi uTTu koNDare adu maDiyalla
hoTTeyoLagina kAma krOdha mada matsara biTTu naDedare adu maDiyu
2: dashami dvAdashi puNya dinadali vasudEva sutananu pUjisade
dOSakanjade pararanna bhunjisi yama pAshake silukuvudadu maDiye
3: hasidu bhUsuraru madhyAhna kAlake kusidu manage baLaluta baddare
masaNigondu gatiyillavendu tA hasanAgi umbOdu hole maDiyu
4: icceyinda mala mUtra sharIrava necci toLeyalu adu maDiye
acyutAnantana nAmava nenedu sancita kaLevudu adu maDiyu
5: hariyara gurugaLa hari dAsarugaLa caraNakeragi balu bhaktiyali
paripAlisu endu purandara viTTalana iruLu hagalu smarisuvudu maDiyu

meaning of NEENE ANAADHA BANDO KARUNYA SINDHO of PD plzzzzzzz

Chinamayee - there is a section called - 'Sahitya & Identification Requests' - if you post your request there, instead of anywhere wily-nily, I am sure the response will be better. Please post one request per topic, and try not to tack your request onto a pre-existing one.

Chinmayee, under the Vaggeyekaras section - Purandaradasa I have posted the meaning for 'neene anAtha bandhu' already since there was a request for it earluer by somebody.
Harini.

I congratulate the large number of volunteers engaged in this effort.
I do have a niggly feeling on one aspect though. There are likely to be many grammatical and typo errors creeping in because of the plethora of extant versions and liberties taken by popular singers.
An authentic program like baraha will be needed for transliteration.
An editorial team is also needed. I can volunteer a couple of hours a week. But a Wiki workflow will be needed.

Prof. SKRR's work is considered a classic among Kannadigas.

My father KV Narayanaswamy has performed an all Purandara Dasa Concert in AIR Bangalore in 1964. Let me see if can upload the concert.

KNV

That will be a grand treat KNV..

Today Visaka Hari handled Purandara Dasa Segment of her Upanyasam titled "Endharo Mahanu Bhavu' at Music Academy beautifully. The other two composers she took are Muthuswamy Dikshitar & Andal. The programme had a calming effect on the mind after hearing the terrible news.

KNV