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From MS & Radha by Gowri Ramnarayan

One of her signature viruttams, which involved improvised ragas across an exquisite Tamil lyric goes :

Even if the mother forgets the child,

and the child forgets the mother who bore it, 

even if life forsakes the body, and the body forsakes the soul,

even if the heart abandons the art it had absorbed, and eyes fail to blink,

I shall not forget the lord who resides within pure souls

Petra Thai followed by Araar Asai Padaar from a concert in Mysore in the 1960s

Source : sangeethapriya.org

Decades later in a televised concert,

Petra Thai Followed by Thiruvasakam Shiva Panchaksharam – Youtube

 

 

 

 

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Anandamruthakarshini in ragam Amrithavarshini composed by Muthuswami Dikshithar

Source : sangeethapriya.org

 

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Kanchadalayatakshi in Raga Kamala Manohari composed by Muthuswami Dikshithar.

This is preceded by a Sanskrit Sloka from Adi Shankara’s Soundarya Lahari.

‘SivE shringarardra  taditarajanE kutsanaparA

sarOshAm gangAyAm  girishanayanE vismayavatI

harAhibhyO bhItA  sarasIruha sowbhAgya jananI

sakhiṣu smerA te mayi janani drishtih sakarunA’

Source : sangeethapriya.org

Here is a link to the explanation of the meaning of the sloka and the song by Dr N Veezhinathan.

http://www.gaanapriya.in/sahithyapriya/dikshitar-series/dikshitar-02-oct-10/2-kanchadLAya_kamalamanOhari_lecture.mp3

Source : Gaanapriya Foundation

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A  beautiful raga alapana and slokam followed by Talli Ninnu Nera, Ragam Kalyani composed by Shyama Sastri.

 

Source: Concert at Kanchipuram in 1969, sangeethapriya.org

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Thaye Idhu Tarunam in Ragam Pantuvarali composed by Kavi Kunjara Bharati.

 

Source:sangeethapriya.org