A note from Sri Chandrasekar

[Guest guest]

Dear Friends : Sri Chandrasekharan ,who

is here on assignmnet for WIPRO will

be returning home soon . I very

much appreciate his initiative to pass

on the news about the Temple Construction

project for Sri RanganAtha to the Music News group .

As per the suggestion of the other members ,

we should reach out to as many list groups,

news groups and cultural groups as possible .

I am sure that there are a lot of BhakthAs

with connections to the Lord of Srirangam there .

 

I am counting on Sri Sampath Rengarajan

to coordinate this activitiy and spread

the word around .We are finalizing on

the format for an one page flier and

creation of the receipt books for

all those , who want to reach out into

your communities to help create this

extraordinarily unique temple adored by

BhakthAs and kings over many centuries .

This would be in the spirit of suggestions

made by Srimathi Viji RaghunAthan of California .

 

Sri RanganathA's temple will be constructed in

two phases .The target date fro Phase I is from

April 15 ( BahudhAnya Samvathsara birth day , Today )

to December 31 , 1998 . The GopurAs , the decorative

work will come under phase II .We have to wait on that phase .

 

During Phase I , completion of all that is necessary

to gain Certificate of Occupancy will be done.

The temple has access to $500 K today and anticipates that

it will need $700K to complete Phase I . All of your

support becomes thus critical& Timely . Every bit helps .

Please help generously for this noble cause .

I thank Sri Mani Varadarajan for his understanding

to share the news about the constrcution of

this unique temple and the related postings on

its glories and ancient history.

This PerumAL is indeed Periya perumAL and is central

to Bhakthi-SaraNAgathi traditions . Thanks .

 

Those , who are interested to join in this

Kaimkaryam should send their contributions

to Sri RanganathA temple , P.O Box 120 ,

Pomona , NY 10970 and NOT to me .Sending your

contributions to me only delays the receipt

of the checks by the Board .Thank you for your

understanding .

 

The chairman of the Board of Sri Ranganatha

Temple , Srimathi Nagubandhi or one of the officers

of the Sri RanganathA Temple , Pomona will send

receipts for your donations that are 100%

tax free .

 

I have enclosed my comments on Sri KshEthraj~nA ,

which I sent to Sri Chandrasekhar in response

to a question he had on the above composer .

This might be of interest to number of you .

KshEthrj~nA also spent some time at Srirangam

and enjoyed the Lord as " GopAlA "

as many AzhwArs did .

 

 

Daasan , V.Sadagopan

>Sadagopan <sgopan

>Re: hello

>

>>vcs (Chandrasekaran. V)

>>Sadagopan <sgopan

>>Re: hello

>>

>>At 02:41 PM 4/13/98 +0000, you wrote:

>>>Dear Sri Sadagopan,

>>> I forgot to mention this in my earlier mail this morning. I

>>>had posted about the temple project in a music news group with

>>>your email id as contact and had mentioned the temple address

>>>for the cheques to be posted. So interested members in that

>>>news group may send mails to you.

>>> I pray to the Almighty for giving you and other people involved

>>>in this sacred project, mental and physical strength for

>>>accomplishing His command successfully.

>>>

>>> adiyEn,

>>> chandrasekaran.

>>>

>>>>

>>>> Namaskarams , Dear Sri Chandrasekaran :

>>>>

>>>> Sri Kshethraj~nA is the father of the musical

>>>> form known as Padham . You might have heard a lot

>>>> of padhams from Smt.BrindhA and MukthA ,

>>>> the grand daughters of the legendary VeeNai

>>>> DhanammAL . The padham became a powerful tool

>>>> in his hands to depict variegated aspects of

>>>> RagA and rasA .

>>>>

>>>> He seems to have taken his inspiration from

>>>> Sri ANNamAchAryA's SringAra Sankeetrhtanamulu .

>>>> He lived in the 17th century , to centruies

>>>> later than Sri ANNa mAchAr .

>>>>

>>>> He composed in Sanskritized Telegu like

>>>> Saint ThyagarAjA . He was a devotee of " GopAlA ".

>>>> His naama mudrA is Muvva GopalA . Sweetness of diction ,

>>>> artha pushti and the use of rare rAgAs are his

>>>> hallmarks as a composer .In the song that you referred to

>>>> he seems to be saluting the eyes of the Lord and

>>>> is comparing them to a Kuvalaya Pushpam .I do not know the

>>>> Saahithya Vaakhyams to guess the meaningof the rest of the padham .

>>>> Gowlipanthu has been used by Saint ThyagarAja in a

>>>> penitent mood in front of Sri VenkatEsA ( theratheeyaga

>>>> RaadhA ) and by Sri ShyAma SaastrigaL twice .

>>>> KshEthraj~nA has compsed another Gowlipanthu

>>>> Padham called 'Eriti VegintunE " .

>>>>

>>>> There is a belief that JayadEvA reincarnated himself as

>>>> Sri NarAyaNa TheerthA first and later as KshEthraj~nA .

>>>> He was named KshEthraj~nA because of the many

>>>> kshEthrams he visited . He ahs composed more than

>>>> 2,000 padhams .

>>>>

>>>> Best wishes ,

>>>> V.Sadagopan

>>>>

>>>>

>>>>

>>>>

>>>>

>>>>

>>>>

>>>> > I have a question about a song I have on a CD. This is sung by MS. The

>>>> >composer is kshethraj~nar. The song begins as "kuvalayakshirO". I don't

>>>> >know what language this is in. Can you please tell me more about this

song? I

>>>> >liked the song's tune and I am sure the theme should also be great. The

>>>> >tune is close to our ancient tamizh music. I don't know the technical

>>>> >name of the tune. The ragam is gowlipantu.

>>>> > The other songs in this classical CD are,

>>>> > 1. moyyar thadam (thiruvembavai)

>>>> > 2. karthikeya (p. sivan)

>>>> > 3. kaNbhadheppOdhu (ambujam krishna)

>>>> > 4. kuthagaiyai (doesn't list the composer). this is on Lord

parthasarathy

>>>> > of thiruvallikeni..

>>>> > 5. kuvalyakshiro.

>>>> >

>>>> > adiyEn,

>>>> > chandrasekaran.

>>>> >

>>>> >

>>>>

>>>>

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