Friday, March 28, 2008

Manasa Etulo

One of the most soothing krithis I have heard. I specifically requested the teacher to teach me this. The krithi is set in raaga Malayamarutham which is a janya of Chakravagam (remember the "Indiralogthu Chakravagam" in "Adhisaya Raagam"?) Chakravagam is the 16th melakartha (S R1 G3 M1 P D2 N2 S).
For MM: The aarohana/avarohana are S R1 G3 P D2 N2 S | S N2 D2 P G3 R1 S
MM literally means "Mountain Breeze" and is an apt name.
The sahitya of this song goes
P:
Manasa Etulorthune
Naa mana vini jekonave
AP:
Dinakara kula bushanu nee
Deenudavai bajana jesi
Dinamu kadupu manina neevu
Ninavadhella guna viheena
C:
Kalilo raajasa thaamasa
gunulugala vaarichelimi
kalasi melasi thirugu jumani
kaalamu gada pakkani
sulabamuga kada theranu
suchanalanu theliya jeyu
ihanu thyaaga raja maata
vinavadhella gunaviheena

This piece is usually palyed on nadhaswaram on the morning of marriage day.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Hi there,

Do you have the notation for this Krithi. I would really appreciate if you can share.

Thanks!

Master of None said...

Sorry to have noticed this comment only now. Here's one version of the notation

http://www.shivkumar.org/music/manasayetu.htm

The one that I learnt is a little diff from this but then that is expected with manodharma music.