![]() This is based on the “Shivapuranam”, the first section of Tiruvachakam (Tamil text available in two parts here& here), consisting of nineteen 5-line stanzas. The album has six songs, including a unique 20-minute composition, Polla Vinayen, that alternates between Tamil and English lyrics, sung in choral style, to the accompaniment of the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Hungary. In 2005, Tamil musician and composer Ilayaraja released his highly ambitious Thiruvasagam in Symphony, a 64-minute CD, being the musical rendering of Manickavachagar's verses in ancient Tamil. Where can you go now? You have no way of leaving me now! O my treasure! O Lord Siva! I am continuously and firmly holding on to you. You melted my body, increased the light of wisdom in my mind, poured the honey of eternal bliss, and roamed everywhere with me. You took more pity on me, a sinner, than a mother who remembers her child’s hunger (even before it starts crying) and feeds milk to it. A full translation of the Tiruvachakam, by Rev GU Pope (1900) is accessible here. A summarised translation is vailable here (see pages 7-8). YAnunaith thoDarn^dhu chikkenap piDiththEn eN^gezun^ tharuLuva thiniyE.Ī detailed explanation of the lyrics is accessible here (see pages 59-61). ![]() ThEninaich chorin^dhu puRambuRan^dhirin^dha chelvamE chivaberumAnE Uninai urukki uLLoLi perukki ulappilA Anan^dha mAya ![]() PAln^inain^ thUTTum thAyinunychAlap parin^dhun^I pAviyE nuDaiya "Piditta Pattu" translates as ten (hymns) of the tenacious grasp, referring to the devotee Manikavachagar's unyielding grip on his Lord, Siva. Here is the song Pal Ninaindu Uttum, from the "Piditta Pattu" section of Tiruvachakam. Tiruvachakam is sung in Mohanam raga (a pentatonic scale). His best known work is the Tiruvachakam ("Sacred Utterances"), which contains 700 songs. Manikavachagar ("One whose words are like gems"), who is venerated together with the sixty-three Saiva saints known as Nayanars, was a Tamil mystic and poet-composer. ![]()
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