Re: telugu in tygaraja kirtanas

Prasad Chodavarapu (prasad@acm6.me.uiuc.edu)
Sat, 27 Apr 1996 22:07:50 -0500 (CDT)

[Suresh Kolichala wrote...]
:
: I think, jagadaananda kaarakaa is a very untypical tyAgarAja kRti.
: Barring a handful of sanskrit kRtis, tyAgarAja mostly wrote in
: simple telugu. Expressing the intimate personal feelings in a
: conversational language, IMHO, is the speciality of tyAgarAja.

here's an example which fully supports suresh's observation.

marugElarA O rAghavA, marugElarA

marugEla carAcara rUpa
parAtpara, sUrya sudhAkara lOcanA, marugElarA

anni ni'vanucu amtaramgamuna
tinnagA vedaki telisikonTinayya
ninnEgAni madinenna jAlanorula
nannu brOvavayya, tyAgarAjanutA, marugElarA

interestingly, this too was used by viswanath
in one of his movies. isn't it 'saptapadi'?

this surely is a counter-example
to what i said based on 'jagadAnanda kAraka'.

regards
prasad chodavarapu

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