SrI:
Dear BhakthAs
:
Number of You have written to
me about how to acquire the above set of
Two CD ROMs . Here are some
additional comments in this context :
(1) Before adiyEn provides
that information , adiyEn would like to invite
Your attention to the
Tamil Text and the English Meanings of the three
Gadhyams of AchArya RaamAnuja
provided by Our Sri MadhavakkaNNan
of Srirangam and Simhapuri .
Before you listen to the excellent recital of
Sriamthi Nagamani
Srinath , it will be good to familarize yourself with the meanings
of the ChoorNikais of the
three gadhyams .The URL for Sri
MadhavakkaNNan's
translations is
:
(2) Sri
V.Srinivasan , the National organizer of Smt.Nagamani's 2005 concert
Tour
in USA and
Canada has kindly agreed to send you the CD ROMs of the three gadhyams
.
These two CD
ROMs have been priced at $20 per set .$5 from the sale of each
of
these sets will be
donated to Lord RanganAthA's Temple at Pomona , NY
(3) You can contact Sriman
Srinivasan at Sashti@xxxxxxxxxxx
with your requests.
Your check should be
addressed to " Optimight Consulting LLC". His mailing
address is
:
Optimight Consulting
LLC
3614 Columbia Blvd
Garland , TX
75043-2246
(4) adiyEn has heard the
two wonderful CD ROMs , which show musical
craftsmanship , the correct
Sanskrit UccharaNam of Complex passages ,
the proper sandhi bhEdhams
and brilliantly intutive selection of many
RaagAs to suit the spirit of
the different SoorNikais .
(5) Twenty Nine RaagAs are elaborately developed step by
step to accompany
the
different gadhyam passages (M) . The Svaroopam of Few more RaagAs are
given
in between in the humming form(H)
without elaboration to provide link and
continuity . This combination
of rendering the brief and long svaroopams /
LakshaNams of the RaagAs to
pause /parse according to the Bhaava and
the meaning of the gadhyam
passages(Saahithyam here) is clever. This is deliberate
because the detailed
elaboration of all of the 45 raagAs would interfere unduly
with the meaning of the
Saahithyam ; hence only glimpses of the RaagAs are
given without divulging their
full svaroopam .
(6)Approximately Seventeen Raagams are hummed or hinted by the Flutist
or
Violinist
.The remaining 28 RaagAs are developed
elaborately during the rendering of
the three
gadhyams . These 28 RaagAs slelected with exquisite taste
are :
SaraNAgathi Gadhyam : (1) Bhouli (H)
, (2) PanthuvarALi (3) Sudha
DhanyAsi
(4) Kaamavardhini (H) , (5) KalyANi , (6) AtaaNaa , (7) Varamu , a rare
Raaga
used by Saint AnnamAchArya , (8) KeeravANi , (9) SoothradhAra , (10)
SarasAngi
(11) HamsAnandhi , (12) MadhyamAvathi (13) BhoopALi .
Sriranga Gadhyam : (1) Aarabhi , (2) LathAngi , (3) Mohanam , (4) Nata Bhairavi
.
Vaikunta
Gadhyam : (1) Vaasanthi (H) , (2) HindOLam , (3) Durgaa ,
(4) ShaNmukha PriyA , (5)
AbhOgi , (6) Madhuvanthy , (7) Hamsadhwani ,
(8) Subha-PanthuvarALi (9)
Chandra Kouns , (10) Kaanada , (11) KedAra GouLa
and
( 12) Surutti
.
In summary , this set of CD ROMs should
be in the house of
every Sri VaishNava and should be heard
as often as possible
to get closer to AchArya RaamAnujA's
anubhavam of
SaraNAgathi performed before Srirangam
Dampathis
on behalf of all of us
.
NamO Sri RanganAthAya
,
Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri
Sadagopan
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