tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597207.post2456043619720407338..comments2024-03-09T21:29:37.613+00:00Comments on Thyagaraja Vaibhavam: Thyagaraja Kriti - Chakkani Raja - Raga Kharahara PriyaV Govindanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08711373807817392310noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597207.post-712596474854999202020-05-21T16:52:53.274+01:002020-05-21T16:52:53.274+01:00Satisfying explanation for ganga sagaram... Than...Satisfying explanation for ganga sagaram... Thankyou so much for this explanation!!!! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12064212513541187829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597207.post-19943311507030043452019-05-23T17:28:23.276+01:002019-05-23T17:28:23.276+01:00Very useful site. I luckily came across this whil...Very useful site. I luckily came across this while searching meaning for chakkani raja. thelockedonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14212047514064549874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597207.post-88486315501948602572015-10-03T08:51:27.461+01:002015-10-03T08:51:27.461+01:00I have to add the following to what I wrote yester...I have to add the following to what I wrote yesterday.<br />In his biography of Tyagaraja Swami,Prof. P Sambamoorthy has a section on the diction of Tyagaraja. There he writes:<br /><br />"Peculiar usages found in some of his songs have to be justified as local or provincial usages. The word 'Ganga sagaram' (Chakkani raja) is an ironically dignified Chola desa prayoga for alcoholic drink."<br /><br />-GREAT COMPOSERS, VOL II: TYAGARAJA, Second edition, 1970. page 261-2. Indian Music Publishing House, Madras.<br />R.Nanjappahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05088623682239915684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597207.post-89600348684594379632015-10-02T18:38:44.791+01:002015-10-02T18:38:44.791+01:00Sri Tyagaraja was a Telugu Brahmin who lived in th...Sri Tyagaraja was a Telugu Brahmin who lived in the Tanjore area. His Telugu was therefore not of type spoken in the Telugu speaking areas proper. He employed the expressions in common usage in the area.<br /><br />Ganga sagaram in the kriti does not mean just 'toddy'. It was the practice of labourers and other such classes to get drunk and be lying about on the fields. (Now, I am not criticising this, or expressing moral judgment, but merely reporting. And such persons can be found even today in some public parks in Bangalore.) They were spoken of as 'floating on the Ganga sagar'- referring to their state of inebriation. This is like an idiomatic expression, and cannot be understood through a regular dictionary. Authorities like T.S.Parthasarathy, Dr.V.Raghavan have used the word 'toddy' in their books,because they have just given the gist and not annotated. But this explanation was always given by T S. Balakrishna Sastrigal in his discourses, which I heard, and noted in 1976.R.Nanjappahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05088623682239915684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597207.post-8462436338300391142009-12-18T06:25:37.360+00:002009-12-18T06:25:37.360+00:00The explanation for the term "ganga sagara&qu...The explanation for the term "ganga sagara" is as follows. In the court of the Tanjore maharaja, was a vidvan of the name Gangadhara Vajapeyi (perhaps also known as Gangadhara Bhatta). He was thought by his peers to indulge in alcohol consumption. Once when he was late arriving at the court, the maharaja enquired as to where he was. And some smart young fellow in the court replied, "ganga was consumed by jahnu, sagara was consumed by kumbhasambhava (agastya), but gangasagaram was consumed by gangadhara vajapeyi". This sarcastic couplet caught on in the Tanjore area, and gangasagaram turned into slang for alcohol. This is one version that the harikatha exponents have been telling for several generations.Ravihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08973500728982321843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597207.post-48779993518887755152008-04-18T19:09:00.000+01:002008-04-18T19:09:00.000+01:00For kriti 'Rara MayintidAka' - http://thyagaraja-v...For kriti 'Rara MayintidAka' - <BR/>http://thyagaraja-vaibhavam.blogspot.com/2007/01/thyagaraja-kriti-raaraa-maayintidaaka.html<BR/><BR/>GovindanV Govindanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08711373807817392310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597207.post-55962062295411373962008-04-18T13:02:00.000+01:002008-04-18T13:02:00.000+01:00I came across this site when I was serching for th...I came across this site when I was serching for the lyrics of rara ma inti daaka by Tyagaraja and I also read Sivananda lahiri blog of yours. Wonderful. This one of the useful blogs I have across.<BR/><BR/>Is it possible for you to post the lyrics of Rara m inti daaka?Surabhihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04881066659614077165noreply@blogger.com