Sunday, June 10, 2018

Translations of Krithitis of Annamayya-The Prapithamaha of Carnatic Music


Translations  of Krithitis of Annamayya-The Prapithamaha  of Carnatic  Music

By
P.R.Ramachander



Tallpaka Annamacharya   lived between 1408   to 1503 and is supposed  to have composed 32000  krithis mostly  in Telugu   and few in Sanskrit and out of them 12000   are  now available to us  .When we know  that Purandara dasa  , the pithamaha of Carnatic music lived   between 1484    to 1564, without any hesitation   we should call  Annamacharya    as  the Prapitha Maha (Great grand father ) of Carnatic music. Most of his songs are  in praise  of Lord Venkidachalapathy   of Thirupathi  . It was   always my dream to get at least a few  of his great krithis   translated in to english ,Some how  I was not  able to do it   and was feeling very bad  about it.
   God decided  to help me  .  IN the middle of may   one  Ms Shaila Chandra   contacted me   and said that   one of her   great talents   was translation .She told me she was  from Hyderabad    and I requested   her to help me   to translate  Annammayya Songs  .She agreed   and translations are  daily  pouring from her  .Within these  25  days she has translated  26 songs   and they are available to you  for reading(Some of them you can hear being sung also)
  She also runs a  very intellectual   blog called  http://thoughtsaladforyou.blogspot.in/.
   May we all  bless her   for the commendable  job of translating the works of  our Prapithamaha


1.Tandanana Ahi


2.Entha mAthramuna


3. SiruthanavvulavAdu


4. Srirasthu , Shubhamasthu

5. ATHADE PARABRAHMAM


6, ANTARAMGAMELLA SRIHARIKI

7. MARDA MARDA


8. MELUKO-


9. ALARULU KURIYAGA


10. INNI CHADUVANELA

12. KARUNANIDHIM
13. BHAAVAYAAMI


14. KIM KARISHYAAMI
15. CHOODARAMMA SATHULAARA


16. CHINNI SHISHUVU 


17. TVAMEVA SHARANAM


18.SARVAJNATVAMU

19. KALASHAAPURAMU KAADA

20. INKANELA  VERAPU
21. KALADINTHE MAATA
22. DOLAAYAAM CHALA


23. VEENA VAAYIMCHENE
24. PEGULA JANDYAALU VESI
25. VANDE VAASUDEVAM


26. EVVAREVVADIVAADO EE JEEVUDU


2 comments:

  1. Raja thatha, please translate sarasvati anthadi by kambar into English. This is my humble request.

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  2. Dear Sir,
    Thanks for your excellent work on providing the meanings of beautiful keertanas.

    I have been searching for the meaning of the song "Poddikanennadu Vodachuno". Can you please help me on this if possible.

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