Narayana Ninna Naamada Smaraneya - S.Aishwarya & S.Saundarya

© & ℗ 2019: V.Shrinivasan - Grandson of Bharat Ratna M.S.Subbulakshmi and Managing Trustee of Suswaralakshmi Foundation for Classical Music and Performimg Arts.

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Videography: Sri.Shreedhar Mechri
Recorded at : Prabhat Studios, Bangalore

S.Aishwarya & S.Saundarya are the Great Grand Daughters of Bharat Ratna M.S.Subbulakshmi and the Grand Daughters of Dr Radha Viswanathan and the torch bearers of the MS Legacy.


Date: Sep 16 th 2019
Location: Suswaralakshmi Foundation For Classical Music and Performing Arts.
Occasion: 103 rd Birth Anniversary of the “Queen of Music” M.S.Subbulakshmi

On this auspicious day of the 103 rd Birth Anniversary of my Great Grandmother Bharat Ratna
M.S.Subbulakshmi, my sister S Saundarya & I dedicate to her memory a song which she loved so profoundly - “ Narayana Ninna Namada Smaraneya”, a composition of the celebrated Pitamaha of Carnatic Music - Purandaradasa.

Set to the ragam – Shuddha Dhanyasi, this song was taught to my Great Grandmother and Grandmother Dr Radha Viswanathan by Vidushi Smt Seethalakshmi Venkatesan. Reminiscences of learning this song from my Grandmother Radha flood my mind as she taught me as only she could teach. Having sung together with her mother for 50 years, she was the
quintessence of the “MS Music & Magic”. Perfectionist to the core, she would polish sangathi after sangathi while teaching me with such forbearance. To say that I was fortunate would be an understatement. Indeed I was blessed to learn from her.

“Narayana” was one of the songs which used to be a hugely popular “request” from the mammoth audience at their concerts at Rama Seva Mandali (Fort High School Grounds - Chamarajpet - Bangalore) along with “Jagadhodharana” and “Dasana Madiko”

Recorded at : Prabhat Studios
Videography : Shreedhar Mechri

Narayana Ninna Namada

Ragam: Shuddha Dhanyasi (22nd Melakartha Janyam)
ARO: S G2 M1 P N2 P S || AVA: S N2 P M1 G2 S ||
Talam: Khanda Chapu
Composer: Purandara Dasa
Pallavi:
ನಾರಾಯಣ ನಿನ್ನ ನಾಮದ ಸ್ಮರಣೆಯ
ಸಾರಾಮೃತವು ಎನ್ನ ನಾಲಿಗೆಗೆ ಬರಲಿ ||

nArAyaNa ninna nAmada smaraNeya
sArAmRtavu enna nAligege barali ||

Meaning
O nArAyaNa! May the sweet nectar of the essence of your nAmasmaraNe(remembering and
repeating your name) come to my tongue.

Anu Pallavi

ಕಷ್ಟದಲ್ಲಿರಲಿ ಉತ್ಕೃಷ್ಟದಲ್ಲಿರಲಿ
ಎಷ್ಟಾದರೂ ಮತಿಗೆಟ್ಟು ಇರಲಿ
ಕೃಷ್ಣ ಕೃಷ್ಣ ಎಂಬೊ ಶಿಷ್ಟರು ಪೇಳುವ
ಅಷ್ಟಾಕ್ಷರ ಮಹಾ ಮಂತ್ರದ ನಾಮವ ||1||

kaShTadallirali utkRShTadallirali |
eShTAdarU matigeTTu irali |
kRShNa kRShNa embo SiShTaru pELuva
aShTAkShara mahAmantra nAmava ||1||

Meaning

Whether I be in duress or in prosperity, and howmuchever my brains and intellect may be addled/muddled, let only that 8-lettered mantra(Om namO nArAyaNAya) repeatedly chanted as "kRShNa kRShNa" by the righteous be with me at all times.

Charanam

ಸಂತತ ಹರಿ ನಿನ್ನ ಸಾಸಿರದ ನಾಮವ
ಅಂತರಂಗದಲ್ಲಿರಿಸಿ
ಎಂತೋ ಪುರಂದರ ವಿಠಲ ರಾಯನ
ಅಂತ್ಯ ಕಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಚಿಂತಿಸೋ ಹಾಗೆ ||2||

santata hari ninna sAsirada nAmava
antaragadalli iirisi (oLage iTTu)
entO purandara viTThala rAyana
antya kAladalli cintisO hAge ||2||

Meaning

Hari! Forever placing your 1000 hallowed names in the depths of my heart, in some way or the other, let me have the ability to chant your name even in my last moment before death.