Comments on: The Trinity of Bhajana

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Sat, 19 May 2012 15:43:31 +0000

[...] writes about the trinity of bhajana sampradaya in Tanjore region The Tanjore region became the bhajana tradition’s stronghold with the arrival of the bhajana [...]

By: R.Prasanna venkatesan

R.Prasanna venkatesan — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:55:05 +0000

Od late Sri Haridasgiri maharaj, his sishya Br. Sri.jayakrishna dhikshidar are spreading the bhajan Sampradaya Not to be left alone is Udayalur Kalyanarama Bhagavatar, who with his melliflous voice,has attracted thousands, to be spell bound and sing and dance with him.
Of course the Harikatha sampradaya also descended from Maharashtra, to the banks of Cauvery, which welcomed with open arms theVijayanagar kings, who left the Telugu Natyar nataka sampradaya in Saliamangalam and Melattur, who till the last chitra powrnami, enact the Prahlada Charitram, over night, after a sumptuous dinner with the three fruits, mango, plantain and jack fruit.
How sambhar, in our menu, descended from maharashtra, is another story.

By: sriramv

sriramv — Thu, 17 May 2012 07:35:37 +0000

Dear Sir

I agree with you 100%

Regards

By: Prasanna

Prasanna — Thu, 17 May 2012 05:39:04 +0000

Dear Sir, I like your blog both the selection of topic and your narrative writing. I enjoy reading it. On this blog on Bhajans, the comment i propose to make below is not at the outset finding fault with some statements in this blog, its only an additional food for thought which u may want to consider and hence request you not to mis understand. The development of bhajana sampradya in Tamilnadu specially has a strong influnece from Maharashtra- the warkari sect- the pioneer being Saint Dnyaneshwar followed by Abhangs of Saint Tukaram, then several others followed (to keep it cryptic) them. The paddhati of bahajanai and its sampradya was born and honed here and went to south during the maratha rule. The Tanjore maratha kings encouraged the arts and it got inbibed in our tamil culture and indigenous tamil bhajanais took a good shape so is the case with Katha Kalakshepam.How much strong was the northern influence to this am not aware ( as there were no Hindu kings of north who ruled South, the moughals or nawabs seem to have not planted north bhajans in south). Even before the maratha influence our tamil saints had holy names sung, but the strcuture of the marathi bhajana sampradaya is what truly added the lusture. Today our tamil people sing such beautiful abahngs and kirtans of the maratha saints both in laya and sahitya that it moves once emotion ( some times i feel even Tukarma would have been wonder struck with the sheer beauty of how sis abangs are sung by tamilians with a shade of our carnatic rasa its so beautiful, many maharashtrias themselves have told me that they are better sung then the natives). I mention this as i notice it in the city of mumbai-in all places-temples,bus and local trains also.Our own Ganapti Tukaram Maharaj is doing wonders ….
Best regards