Muthuswamy Dikshitar

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Yes, but unlike Ganapati does the Srichakra admit this deity ?

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As I wrote earlier, Subrahmanya is one of the dvAdaSa upAsakas and also appears in his femainine form-kaumAri in the first cakra-trailokyamohana along wth the other seven mAtrkAs[ brAhmi, maheSvari, kaumAri, vaiShnavi, vArAhi, indrANi, cAmunDA & mahAlakSmi].
Going back to my own query earlier about the mUladhara et al, these cakras are mentioned in the 5th navAvarana krti in bhairavi[ mUlAdi navAdhAra vyAvrtta]. Going back to ganapati and the SrIcakra, i the dhyAna krti in gauLa, he is addressed as "kamalAlaya taTanivAsah" could it mean that he is on the periphery of SrIcakra aka kamalAlaya and not actually within?[ SrI means lotus also in samskrta also the SricakrA is depicted as a ltus and is lauded as the best temple in creation]

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Could someone happen to have the following stats?
IIRC it was listed in this forum long time ago.

1.List of krtis without raga mudra - A few that come to mind are darbar, toDi
2.Ragas in which there is only one krti of Dikshitar

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The following statistics was possted by me two yera sback in this forum.
PPN


Statistical Analysis of Dikshitar Krithis
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Main sources:

1. Sri Muthuswami Dikshitar Keerthanaigal, Vainika Vidwan
A. Sundaram Iyer, Music Book Publishers, Madras (1989)

2. Dikshitar Keerthana mala (15 volumes)
Vina A. Sundaram Iyera (Madras)

3. Sangita Sampradaya Pradarshini (5 volumes)
Subbarama Dikshitar (Music Academy) a(1961 to 1983)

A total of 479 Krithis have been used in this analysis.
Krithis of doubtful authorship, corrupt krithis, etc
have been omitted. The only telugu composition,
a daru " nI sATi daivamuendu" in s'rIra~njani rAgaM, has
been included, even though it is devoid of the signature
"guruguha" (since it appears in Sangita Sampradaya Pradarshini,
as well as in Vina Sundaram Iyer's book,
and Subbarama Dikshitar attributes it to Dikshitar).

1. Total Number of Krithis: 479

2. Number of Melams (asampurnam) : 72
(sampoorna melam makes no sense here)

3. No. of krithis in Suddha Madyama melam: 423 = 88.3%
No. of krithis in Prati Madyama melam: 56 = 11.69%

4. Breakdown of Gods/Goddesses for these krithis:

Siva (including kalabhairava, virabhadra) 131 = 27.34%
devi 176 = 36.74%
(including lakshmi, minakshi, renuka devi, etc)
sarasvati 13 = 2.71%
Vishnu 41 = 8.55&
Rama 27 = 5.63%
krishna 14 = 2.92
Ganapathi 27 = 5.63%
Subrahmanya 36 = 7.51%
Navagraha 9 = 1.87%
Brahma 1 = 0.21%
Sasta 1 = 0.21%
Sandhya 1 = 0.21%
Ganga 1 = 0.21%
Maya (contemting, not praising) 1 = 0.21%

Krithis on dual deities: (included in the above)

Parvati + Parameswara 1 (included in siva)
Sankara + narayana 1 (included in siva)
Rama + Krishna 1 (included in rama)

5. Vaggeyakara Mudra featured in ALL 478 krithis, except the
telugu composition "nI sAti daivamendu"a in srIra~njani.

6. Raga Mudra (including suchitha (indicative) featured in 235 krithis
(99.79%). None of the sa.nkarAbharanaM and toDi krithis feature
raga mudra, except the former in one ragamalika line.

7. Krithis with Pallavi/Anupallavi/Charanam 280 = 58.46%
Krithis with Samashti Charanam 157 = 32.77%
(Most of the Vivadi mela krithis are of this type)
noTTU swara sahityams 37 = 7.72%
Krithis with Pallavi/Anupallavi/Muktayi swaram 1 = 0.21%

8. Ragamalika krithis 4 = 0.84%

9. Krithis in Upanga Ragams 102 = 21.29%
Krithis in Bhashanga ragams 179 = 37.37%
Krithis in Others 198 = 41.43%

10. Number of Ragams employed 193

10. Breakdown of numbers

1 krithi each in 97 ragams
2 44
3 14
4 15
5 8
6 6
7 3 (anandabhairavi, bhairavi, surati)
8 4 (athana, arabhi, kambhoji, todi)
11 1 (kalyani)
48 1 (sankarabharanam)

12. Maximum Number of songs in Sankarabharanam 48 = 10.02%
Maximum Number of songs in dhIraSankarabharanam melam: 96 = 20.04%

13. Krithis in major mela ragams:

todi 13 = 2.71%
mayamalavagauLa 51 = 10.64%
naTabhairavi 42 = 8.76%
Sri (~ Kharaharapriya) 57 = 11.89%
Harikedaragaula (Harikambhoji) 63 = 13.15%
dhIrasankarabharanam 96 = 20.04%
shantakalyani 27 = 5.63%

14. Number of talams employed 10

Breakdown

rupakam 138 = 28.81%
Adi 184 = 38.41%
triputa 17 = 3.54%
jhampa 11 = 2.29%
capu 60 (misra 54, khanda 6) = 12.52%
matyam 1 -
Ekam 56 (tisra 22, chaturasra 22, khanda 12) = 11.69%

15. Number of languages employed

Sanskrit 475 = 99.16%
Telugu 1 = 0.21%
Manipravalam 3 = 0.63%
(sanskrit+telugu+tamil)


16. Number of Temples featured 74

17. Other types of compositions : none

18. Notable omissions Kharaharapriya, but substituted by Rudrapriya
Diskhitar uses "srI" as the asampoorna melam 22.

19. Group Krithis on the following: (refer to an earlier Keerthana
article by the authors):

shodasa ganapathi
navagraha
kamalamba
abhaymba
nIlothpalamba
tyagaraja
guruguha
madhuramba
rama
nottu svara sahityams
vivadi mela groups on Tanjore brhadiswara/brihannayaki

20. Bhakti/Vibhakti series

kamalamba
abhaymba
nIlothpalamba
tyagaraja
guruguha
madhuramba
rama
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Thanks PPN for the info.

The ragas that I can immediately think of which have only one krti of Dikshitar( I did not mean ekaika krti ragas but rather eka krti ragas) are:
kumudakriya, sAlakabhairavi, margadeshi , some of the mela ragas like kanakambari, ganasamavarali etc

Also Ragas without raga mudra include :
darbar , todi etc

I guess we have to discount Shankarabharanam as the mudra occurs in sadAsivam upAsmahe iirc

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Devaraanji Nste Prdvte also ?
Unlike Ramaswamy D is MD credited with any new raagas ?
Also guruguha mudra appears twice in one of the ragamaalikas.
Nabhomani kriti doesnt have guruguha mudra.

I'm thinking 'Ahantaadi vihitam" in Mhgnptim Vande (Hanumat)-Todi is as close as you can get to Todi mudra. Yadukula K is another debatable one for raga mudra. In this context, is there any kriti where taala mudra might appear, nt just for MD ?

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I want the detailed meaning of HArihara puitram [vasantha].
Dikshitar says "Garvidha Dhaksha siksham"
What actually is the relation between Sastha and Dhaksha?
I dont think Dikshithar will use such a reference just like that.
Any one know any detail, story or purana regarding this?

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Aravind,
There are several issues w.r.to this krti - other than the garvita daksha shiksham reference.There was a discussion on this in RMIC sometime ago.

Re: garvita daksha shiksham please find the relevant post c&ped from there.Though I still have'nt been able to come across any actual textual reference to this.
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In the "Garvita Daksha shiksham", it means one who punished the arrogant Daksha. In Aiyappa's story there is a reference to a Daksha
who offends Aiyappa in the forest when the latter ventures in for tiger milk for his foster mother's illness

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Another lyrical issue about this kriti is the controversy of the kshetra allocation of this krti.The icon at Shabari malai does not match the iconography in this krti though there is a reference to Pandya-Kerala.Some opine that this krti is actually in Ariyan kavu or some such place near Madurai.

Again I am not clear about the prasa structure of this krti too.The dvitiyaksara prasas (or etukais) are not so well-formed.

Lastly a musical issue about this krti is that while ramacandram bhAvayAmi (atleast in notation if not rendition) has some chyuta panchama usage this krti does not.


Hope this helps!

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>In the "Garvita Daksha shiksham", it means one who punished the arrogant Daksha. In Aiyappa's story there is a reference to a Daksha
who offends Aiyappa in the forest when the latter ventures in for tiger milk for his foster mother's illness.
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I have various versions of Ayyapan's story.But I have not even heared the name of Daksha.
Please, can you explain this part of the story in detail.
[ie Daksha offending ayyappa ]