looking for mantras for Murugan bhakti

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Hello,I'm first time in this discussions group.I would like to hear

more what kinds of mantras,bhajans,slokas,etc. are used for a Lord

Murugan bhakti.I know a few like " Om sharavana bhavaya namaha " ;may be

few more,but may be someone knows A LOT of more...

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dhandapani , " oxaveret " <oxaveret> wrote:

> Hello,I'm first time in this discussions group.I would like to hear

> more what kinds of mantras,bhajans,slokas,etc. are used for a Lord

> Murugan bhakti.I know a few like " Om sharavana bhavaya namaha " ;may

be

> few more,but may be someone knows A LOT of more...

 

Hello oxaveret - and WELCOME to this group!

 

There are literally 100's of 1000's of works dedicated to Lord

Murugan in Devotion (or Murugan Bhakti).

 

There is the " Thirumurugatrupadai " of Nakeerar that dates back to the

Sangam Age!

and then there are the various Devaarams _(although mostly songs

praising Siva, there are quite a bit that praise Lord murugan,

especially the ones by Thirujnanasambandar(Dravida Shishu)),

and You have The massive and the MOST PROFUSE work of all -

The Thiruppugazh by Saint Sri Arunagirinathar, who is believed to

have sung around 16,000 songs! in various temples of Lord Murugan

- SADLY just over 1000 remain today.

Then there is the SkandaPuranam of Bhagavan Sri Vedavyasa - which

dates back the Vedic Ages - it is the BIGGEST purana of all -

Allthe 18 main puranas comprise of 4,00,000 slokas in whole, of which

Skanda purana alone has 1,00,000! -

Then there is the KandaPuranam of Kanchi Kacchiyappa Shivachariyar,

which is said to be one of the most vivid and accurate account of

Lord Skanda.

Kumaragurupara Swamigal, sung the Kandar Kali Venba - which is the

small and simplified form of Skanda Puranam.

And then BalaDevaraya - PrimeMinister of Krishna Deva Raya of

VijayaNagar Kingdom sung the KandaShashti Kavacham

Then as late as early 1900's to the mid 1900's Pamban Srimad

Kumaragurupara Swamigal added his works to the enormus ocean of

devotional songs / slokas dedicated to lord murugan with

his " Shanmukha Kavacham " and " Kumarastavam "

 

Then coming to the musical side - One of Greatest composers of all

time " Sri Muthuswami Deekshitar " has composed many kirtanas in praise

of Lord Murugan. Infact his first composition was composed at

Thiruttani when Lord Murugan came in the form of an old man - " Thondu

Kazham " and put some " kalkandu " (I dont know what that is called in

English), in his mouth, and so flowed out the nectar of music from

Muthuswami's tongue -

 

" Sri Nathaadi Guruguho............ " .

Even Ilango Adigal has incorporated some murugan thuthi in his

magnificient " Chilapathikaaram " - which goes

 

" Ani mukangal por aarum iraaru kaiyyum .......

............

.............

Saravanappum palli arai thai maar aruvar .... "

 

This was for the tamil part

Coming to those in sanskrit -

 

Jagadguru Sri Adi Shankaracharya composed the Subrahmanya Bujangam at

thiruchendur - which is probably THE MOST famous sloka today.

 

Sri Agasthya Bhagavan has also composed many slokas in praise of lord

murugan.

 

Apart from this there are numerous slokas in the Shiva Puranam,

Skanda Puranam and so on by Bhagvan Veda Vyasa.

 

Now coming to PRACTICALITY -

If you visit murugan.org - you'll find a 'links' page. There you'll

find a link to Balu Aiyar's Thiruppugazh page which contains

approximately over 100 thiruppugazh songs in Romanised Tamil. So even

if you don't know tamil, no problem!

 

Apart from this, there is a collection of (2) books at

http://in.geocities.com/arunagirinathar/ in the 'Texts' page.

 

You can have a look at these resources.

 

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