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[rajraj]

viggop: Some additions to your list:

ANNaamalai reddiyaar
DaNdapaNi desikar
Kambar ( kamba raamaayaNam has been set to music by some musicians. One of my Tamil professors used to sing kambaraamaayaNam verses in the class room. He also sang silappadhikaaram verses.)
Ilango adigaL (silappadhikaaram)

[viggop]

Dear Rajraj
Thanks a lot.TN.Seshagopalan and OS Arun too have rendered songs from Kamba Ramayanam
Bombay Jayashree was involved with a project to make a dance drama on Silapadhikaram along with Ms.Kanimozhi(daughter of DMK chief Karunanithi)
MS made the silapadhikaram song "vadavayirai mathaki" famous by singing it in UN General assembly.

[Idiappam]

Tholkappiam on vannams....

'Varna' is another sanscritisation of the Tamil word 'vaNNam'. Tholkappiar (5th century BC) mentions the vaNNams in Tamil isai. Altogether there are 20 kinds of vaNNams (varna)..

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[rajraj]

Idiappam,
A letter is missing in some of the words: idai ezhudhu is shown as dai ezhuthu!

[Sudhaama]

Idiappam,

//'Varna' is another sanscritisation of the Tamil word 'vaNNam'. //

Vanhnham = Azhahu (Beauty), Chezhumai (Richness)

"Kaal Vanhnham angu kandaen... Kai vanhnham ingu kandaen.."

-- Kamba-Ramayanam

VANHNHAM does not mean.... VARNAM .... another word meaning COLOUR ...

[Idiappam]

Idiappam,
A letter is missing in some of the words: idai ezhudhu is shown as dai ezhuthu!

Thank you raj, That must be a font version error. Corrected that.

[Idiappam]

Idiappam,
//'Varna' is another sanscritisation of the Tamil word 'vaNNam'. //

Vanhnham = Azhahu (Beauty), Chezhumai (Richness)
"Kaal Vanhnham angu kandaen... Kai vanhnham ingu kandaen.."
-- Kamba-Ramayanam

VANHNHAM does not mean.... VARNAM .... another word meaning COLOUR ...

Well 'vaNNam' or 'VARNA', if we restrict ourselves to their use in music everything will fall in place! In Tamil Isai 'vaNNam' means:

1. A melody or a music mode
2. Harmony
3. Rythmic cycle (santha vaNNam)
4. Variation of metre
5. A melodious tune with quick succession of short syllable (as in vaNNa kuzhimbu)
6. etc etc etc

Also meaning in other context:
1. Beauty
2. happiness
3. co-efficient (mathematics)
4. way or manner - as in 'avvaNNam' - In like manner; 'evvaNNam' - in any manner.
5. etc etc etc

---- from my dictionary

[geno]

Excellent work Idiappam avarkaLE!

I found a thamizh akaraathi link which gives the various contextual meanings for "vaNNam":

http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rom...able=tamil-lex

Sudhaama,

"sEl" enkiRa sol eppadi miinukkum, (peNkaL) kaNNukkum - kuRippup peyarAka varukiRathO - athu pOla thamizhil pala soRkaL - pala poruL kuRiththu niRpathu neengaL aRiyAthathA?

inthath thiri thuvakkiyamaikku nanRikaL!

[Sudhaama]

"geno"

// Sudhaama .... "sEl" enkiRa sol eppadi miinukkum, (peNkaL) kaNNukkum - kuRippup peyarAka varukiRathO - athu pOla thamizhil pala soRkaL - pala poruL kuRiththu niRpathu neengaL aRiyAthathA? ://

Idhan Vidaiyai .. ilakkiya-Maedaiyil inrhu alhikkiraen Angu kaanhga.

// inthath thiri thuvakkiyamaikku nanRikaL//

Karumbu thinna yenakku-k- Kooli vaendumaa?... Nanrhi... kalh.. kalh.. kalh.!!!

[viggop]

Idiappam
Excellent posting on varnams from Tholkapiyam.
Please continue your work.
We can all enjoy the greatness of thamizh isai standing on your hard-working shoulders