My translation of Carnatic music Krithis- One of my achievements

My  translation  of  Carnatic music  Krithis- One of my achievements

By

P.R.Ramachander

     I used to like   to hear  Carnatic music sung  but  I was sad   that  I was not able to understand   the meaning  of the songs that  are  being sung. Accidentally  a very pretty book called  “thyagopanishad”    by Sri.T.S.Balakrishna   Sastrigal fell in to my hands  .It contained   tamil meanings of 57   Thyagaraja  Krithis. This book launched me    as a translator  of Carnatic music Krithis. Compared    to the great translators of Carnatic Music Krithis  , I am just    a big zero  but  , I used my   strength as a   multi linguist to keep  on translating  Carnatic  Music Krithis  .It was  t that  time, I  visited Mumbai   and my  daughter(my elder sisater in law’s  daughter)  Ms Meenakshi Muthuswamy  put in my hand a  tamil book   containing   the meaning of all  Krithis of Thyagaraja. I spent  lots and lots of time    to translate  the great Krithis of Sri thyagaraja  using that book.Side by side  I was translating  Krithis of  OOthukadu, Purandara Dasa, Gopalakshna Bharathi  , Neelakanta Shivan,  Arunnachala Kavirayar  and so on  and so on .Even then I am no where near the  giant like   translators ofdCarnatic  Music. But I realized  that  I have done a great job  , when  I started getting   requests  for English translation of  Krithis    from several   dance schools   in USA, England  , Australia etc and I feel that  this is  one of my great   achievement .

Translation of  compositions of Oothukadu  https://translationsofsomesongsofcarnticmusic.blogspot.com/2017/05/alphabetical-index-of-some-compositions.html

Translation of   Compositions of Papanasam Shivan  https://translationsofsomesongsofcarnticmusic.blogspot.com/2016/11/index-of-some-papanasam-sivan-krithis.html

Translation  of composition of Neelakanda   Shivan  https://translationsofsomesongsofcarnticmusic.blogspot.com/2016/11/index-of-some-papanasam-sivan-krithis.html

Translation of   all Krithis  of Thyagaraja  https://translationsofsomesongsofcarnticmusic.blogspot.com/2016/12/english-meaning-of-685-thyagaraja.html

Annamayya   Krithis  https://translationsofsomesongsofcarnticmusic.blogspot.com/2018/06/translations-of-krithitis-of-annamayya.html

Narayana Thirtha  https://translationsofsomesongsofcarnticmusic.blogspot.com/2016/11/some-compositions-of-narayana-theeertha.html

THangam Viswanathan  https://translationsofsomesongsofcarnticmusic.blogspot.com/2016/11/some-compositions-of-narayana-theeertha.html

D.Pattammal  https://translationsofsomesongsofcarnticmusic.blogspot.com/2013/05/isai-thuvakka-padalgal-by-dpattammal_3171.html

Harikesava Nallur  Muthaiah  Bhagawathar  https://translationsofsomesongsofcarnticmusic.blogspot.com/2016/11/translation-of-few-compositions-of.html

Sadashiva  Brahmendra  https://translationsofsomesongsofcarnticmusic.blogspot.com/2016/10/all-known-krithis-of-sadashiva.html

Prabodha  Chandran Nair  https://translationsofsomesongsofcarnticmusic.blogspot.com/2016/10/all-known-krithis-of-sadashiva.html

Mahakavi Bharathi  https://translationsofsomesongsofcarnticmusic.blogspot.com/2016/10/all-known-krithis-of-sadashiva.html

        I have also translated   several Krithis of Muthuswami Deekshithar, Goapalakrishna Bharathi  (including Nandanar Charitham) , Arunachala Kavi Rayar , Ambujam Krishna , Ashok Madha,  G.N.Balasubramnyam  , Koteeswara iyer   so on and on, totalling to around 3000 Krithis.  I think this is one of my great achievements