Pranams from Raja thatha to Sri Thanjavur Sankara Iyer, the 97 year old musician of Musicians
By
P.R.Ramachander
All of you know that translation to English stotras
and Krithis is my major hobby
.I spend a lot of time in this
Some 12 years when I
was translating carnatic Krithis , I happened to translate
12 Krithis of a composer
called Thanjavur Sankara Iyer ,
Recently in face book I read that
this great composed celebrated his 97th birthday
a few days back. I could
locate many of his Krithis written
mainly in Sanskrit, Tamil and
Telugu and I Started translating all of
them .While doing so I wanted to know mre about him
I understood
that he is 97 and lives
some where in Chennai . To my
surprise I found that
he is not an ordinary composer.
I found that
1.He was perhaps the only composer to write a
Carnatic Krithi praising
Saint Vivekananda
Krithi Praising saint Vivekananda
Nara janmam kanda
dhera https://translationsofsomesongsofcarnticmusic.blogspot.com/2021/01/nara-janmam-kadai-theratamil.html
2.I found he was one
of the rare composers who wrote
krithis when Natural calamities
attacked India
a..Prayer Krithi when
the tidal waves attacked Chennai he wrote
Mahadeva Shiva Shambho https://translationsofsomesongsofcarnticmusic.blogspot.com/2012/10/mahadeva-shiva.html
b.Prayer Krithi after Gujarath
earth quake
Porutharulvaaye Bhooma devi
https://translationsofsomesongsofcarnticmusic.blogspot.com/2012/10/mahadeva-shiva.html
3.He was one of
those rare composers
who wrote a krithi, to save the
world and also praing for progress of our country
Ranganayakiye un
charanam https://translationsofsomesongsofcarnticmusic.blogspot.com/2021/01/ranga-nayakiye-un-charanamtamil.html
This 81 year old Thatha does
sashtanga namaskaram to this
97 year old great
composer cum vocalist as well
as a Hari Katha exponent
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