Today is the seventh day of Navaratri. The composition of Swathi Tirunal that would be sung at Navaratri Mandapam is ’Janani pAhi sada’ in raaga Shuddha Saveri. The first six of the Navaratri Kritis of Swathi Tirunal are in praise of Saraswati, while the last three are in praise of Parvati. Listen to this composition by clicking here – sung by Sankaran Namboodiri.
In yesterday’s post where the composition of the day was a varna, I also wrote about different beginner lessons that a student of Karnataka sangeetha learns. Swarajatis part of such lessons. Today before presenting the ‘composition of the day’ I’d like to present you a swarajati which happens be a composition of my own 
. It is set in rAga ranjani and in Adi tALa.
Right now I have posted only the notation and hope to post a recording shortly.
For a PDF version, click here: A Swarajati in Ranjani.
Please note while the notation says “italics indicate mandra sthAyi” it should have read “lower case indicates mandra sthaAyi”.
Click here to listen to another swarajati I composed last year.
Since the swarajati is in Ranjani, I would like to choose another comspoition in Ranjani for listening on the seventh day of Navaratri. The sahitya is in Kannada, and written is by Kankadasa.
ವರವ ಕೊಡು ಎನಗೆ ವಾಗ್ದೇವಿ ನಿನ್ನ
ಚರಣ ಕಮಲಂಗಳ ದಯಮಾಡು ದೇವೀ || ಪಲ್ಲವಿ||
ಶಶಿಮುಖದ ನಸುನಗೆಯ ಬಾಲೇ!
ಎಸೆವ ಕರ್ಣದ ಮುತ್ತಿನ ಓಲೇ
ನಸುವ ಸುಪಲ್ಲ ಗುಣಶೀಲೇ ದೇವೀ
ಬಿಸಜಾಕ್ಷಿ ಎನ್ನ ಹೃದಯದಲಿ ನಿಂದು ||ಚರಣ ೧||
ರವಿ ಕೋಟಿ ತೇಜ ಪ್ರಕಾಶೇ ಸದಾ
ಕವಿ ಜನ ಹೃತ್ಕಮಲ ವಾಸೇ
ಅವಿರಳಪುರಿ ಕಾಗಿನೆಲೆಯಾದಿ ಕೇ-
ಶವನ ಸುತನಿಗೆ ಸನ್ನುತ ರಾಣಿವಾಸೇ || ಚರಣ ೨||
Like many of the haridasa compositions, the music for this has been set by a later day musician. I am not sure who set this devarnama to Ranjani raga. Listen to ‘Varava koDu enage vAgdevi’ here, sung by Nagavalli & Ranjani.
-neelanjana
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October 13, 2010 at 7:15 pm
Dr.Nagavalli Nagaraj
ನೀಲಾಂಜನರವರಿಗೆ ವಂದನೆಗಳು
ಮೇಲ್ಕಂಡ ಕನಕದಾಸರ ಪದವನ್ನು ನನ್ನ ಸ್ನೇಹಿತನಾದ ತಿರುಮಲ್ಗೆ ಸ್ಕ್ಕಶ್ರೀನಿವಾಸ್(ಚಾಮಿ) ಅಳವಡಿಸಿ ಕನಕಧಾರ ಎಂಬ ಕನಕದಾಸರ ರಚನೆಗಳ ಧ್ವನಿ ಸುರುಳಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ನನ್ನಿಂದ ಹಾಡಿಸಿದ್ದನು. ಅವನು ಒಬ್ಬ ಅತ್ಯುತ್ತಮ ಪ್ರತಿಭಾವಂತ ಸಂಗೀತ . ತ್ನುಂಬ್ರ್ದಾ ಸ್ಶವ್ಾರಸ್ಯಕರವಾದ ಮಟ್ಟುಗಳನ್ನು ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಹಾಕಬಲ್ಲ . ಾವ್ತನ್ರು ಮಲೆ ತಾತಾಚಾರ್ಯ ಶರ್ಮರ ಮೊಮ್ಮಗ
October 13, 2010 at 7:26 pm
neelanjana
ನಾಗವಲ್ಲಿ ಅವರೆ, ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ.
ನೀವು ಇಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಬಂದು ಟಿಪ್ಪಣಿ ಹಾಕಿರುವುದು ನನಗೆ ಬಹಳ ಸಂತೋಷ ತಂದಿದೆ. ಹೀಗೇ ಬರುತ್ತಿರಿ, ಮತ್ತು, ಏನಾದರೂ ತಪ್ಪುಗಳಿದ್ದಲ್ಲಿ ತಿದ್ದುತ್ತಿರಿ. ನಾನು ಈ ವಿಷಯವನ್ನು ಮೇಲಿನ ಬರಹಕ್ಕೆ ಸೇರಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ.
For the benefit of readers who don’t read Kannada – This devaranama is set to music by Tirumale Srinivas.
October 13, 2010 at 7:59 pm
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October 3, 2011 at 9:34 pm
Divya
Today.. as it was saraswathy pooja my Guru( Sri.Tirumale sreenivas) taught me this song and asked me to listen to Smt.Nagavalli who rendered this. very fortunately I landed on this page . Thank you for posting
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