Joyous News: AzhwAr Audio Tapes have arrived here.

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Dear BhakthAs:

 

It is my BhAgyam to announce the arrival of

the first 17 sets of the twin volume of Audio

Tapes : " The Divine Stories of the Alwars " .

 

Each set has two tapes running in all for 80 minutes.

Te text dealing with the lives of individual AzhwArs

are in English with the added benefit of the beautiful

rendering of the Sanskrit Taniyans and other laudatory

slOkas for each of the 12 AzhwArs .The Pronunciation

experienced the Sanskrit slOkAs is most chaste.

Each of these slOkAs are sung in selected RaagAs of

Carnatic Music by very competent vidhvAns , who have

mastery over Raaga LakshaNams and the Sanskrit language.

Some of the Raagams used are HindOLam , ThOdi , Mohanam,

KalyANi , SaarangA , Revathi ,AbhEri , SahAnA , Aaarabhi ,

AtANA , Desh , BhUpALam , PanthuvarALi , Poorvi KlayANi,

Kaapi , MallAri , ,BhouLai , KhAmbhOji and MadhyamAvathi.

 

MangaLa Instruments hum the music in background . VeeNA ,

Flute, Naadhasvaram , Mrudhangam and Ghatam are used

as accompaniments . For special effects , NagarA ,

Tampattam , GhantA , KeraLA JeNDai Vaadhyam ( during

the narration of the history of KulasEkharar)

have been used.

 

Special effects like the sound of flowing Cauvery

waters ( Duirng ThiruppANAzhwAr's charithram narration ),

Thunder et al have been incorporated as background

befitting the special sections of the narration

on the lives of the AzhwArs.

 

The two tapes are a by-product of the larger

Interactive Multimedia Project on the Life of

the AzhwArs and the 108 Dhivya Desams that they

performed MangaLAsAsanam , which Sriman Alwar of

Mysore and adiyEn have been working on with support

from number of BhakthAs for the past few months.

Those Multimedia CD ROMs are almost ready.Meanwhile,

we wanted to release an audio version for the families

of BhakthAs .

 

The concept for these Tapes was developed by adiyEn

and Dr.M.A.Alwar of Mysore . The script for these

narrations has been provided by Thirumanjanam

S.Sundararajan of Srirangam. He has posted many

exquisite articles on the Bhakthi list sofar.

 

The beautiful cover design contaiing the pictures of

the 12 AzhwArs was conceived by Dr.M.A.Alwar.

 

These tapes are released by the International

RaamAnujA Society head quarterd in Denver , Colorado.

Additional information on the Sri Sookthis of

the 12 AzhwArs and their Vaibhavam has been archived

in Bhakthi archives. These tapes are the second in

the series of educational material released by

the International RaamAnujA Society . The first in

this series is the Interactive Mulitmedia CD ROM

on the life and Sri Sookthis of AchArya RaamAnujA

released last year.

 

I have the first batch of 16 Copies availab;e

for distribution. We have made 500 copies in all

and some of the BhakthAs returning from India are

hand carrying additional copies here.

 

In India , these copies can be acquired from :

 

Dr.M.A. Alwar ,

Samskrit Foundation

142 (Upstairs) College Road

Mysore ,570024

 

In USA , both Sri Mohan sagar and adiyEN

will help you acquire them .

 

The cost of these tapes have been pegged at

100 Rupees in India and 10$ plus postage here .

Please contact any one of us , if you wish to

acquire a copy of these tapes for your lpersonal use.

 

It has been a great pleasure for me to work with

Dr.M.A.Alwar on this important educational

project on Sri VaishNavam . AdiyEn's sincere

thanks to Thirumanjanam Sri Sundara Rajan Swamy for

his excellent script for the Lives and works of

the 12 AzhwArs.

 

AzjwArkaL ThiruvadigaLE saraNam,

Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SatakOpan