A small compilation of Palakkad iyer contributors to Carnatic music

 

A small  compilation of   Palakkad  iyer  contributors  to Carnatic music

 

(This collection was  done   some 20  years back  and since I do not belong to field of music, there may be very many omissions .Please excuse  me  for short comings and suggest   whom I should include)

 

The three major centers of development of Carnatic Music in South India are the Tanjore District of Tamil Nadu, the areas surrounding Mysore state, and Kerala. The major part of the development of music in Kerala is due to the Kerala Iyers. This may be due to the possible fact that most of the Kerala Iyers trace their origin to Tanjore district. Some of the great musicians among Kerala Iyers are:-

 

Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar who has been called the Gana Gandharvan of Kerala. It was this great musician who gave a fillip to Singing of Malayalam songs in concerts. He has a very large disciple following including the famous Jesudas.

 

Palakkad Mani Iyer, understandably an emperor of percussion instrument called Mridangam. His amazing mastery used to dumbfound connoisseurs.

 

Nurani Parameswara Bhagavathar who lived in the 19th century who was with Swati Thirunal Maharaja of Travancore.

 

Thondikkulam Anantharama Bhagavathar who was an acknowledged exponent of Harikatha style of music.

Mundai Rama Bhagavathar who was an acknowledged leader in pure classical music.

 

Parur Sundram Iyer and his sons M.S.Gopala Krishnan, M.S.Anantharaman and daughter M.S. Rajam. This school of violin music is considered by many as the innovators in mixing Hindustani and Carnatic Music. They were possibly the forerunners of the modern day Jugalbandhi.

 

Palakkad Narayanaswamy possibly the greats musician of musicians.

Palakkad K.V.Gopalakrishnan known for his mastery of Mridangam and Vocal style of music .He also delved in to Hindustani classical music.

 

M.D.Ramanathan was known for his pure rendering of the classical style of Carnatic Music. He was the well-known teacher of music in Kalakshetra of Madras.

 

Bombay sisters who used to thrall their listeners by mellifluous rendering of famous Kritis and Slokas.

 

Sri.M.A.Kalyanakrishna Bhagavathar who was well known for his rendering of classical music and his son

 

Sri.M.K.Kalyanakrishna Bhagavatar who was known for his proficiency on Veena

 

Gurvayur Dorai and Palakkad Raghu both well known for their proficiency in Mridangam

 

Ayilur Krishnan, Chalakudy Narayanaswamy and Puducode Krishnamurthy well known vocalists.

 

Sri.T.N.Krishnan who is a great player on violin

 

Trichur Ramachandran one of the present day Greats in music.

 

One of the other ancient great contributors to the music was Ennapadam Venkatrama Bhagavathar.

 

Sri.Thiruvarpu Krishna Bhagavathar (1860-1945) was considered as a great authority in singing                        Muthuswami Iyer Kritis.

 

Sri. T.V. Gopalakrishnan (Very famous Mridangist and Vocalist) and his brother Sri. T.V. Vasan (Ghatam vidhwan) - both belong to Tripunithura.

 

Sri. V.V. Subramaniam and his brother Sri. V.V. Ravi (famous Violin Vidhwans), Wadakkancheri

 

Late Sri. Thiruvilamalai Vilwadri Iyer (Very famous Ghatam Vidhwan)

 

Late Sri. Chathapuram Subba Iyer (Mridanga Vidwan)and the first Guru of Late Sri. Palghat Mani Iyer.

 

Kunisseri Sri. Mani Iyer (Mridanga Vidwan)

 

Late Sri. Thiruvilmalai Kondhai (the only Iyer to play leading role in Chandamelam and Guru of Stalwart, Pallavoor Appu Marar)

 

Another great in his own right is Mr.Dakshinamurthy who attained lot of fame as music Director in Malayalam and Tamil films.

Late  Parassala  ponnama  was  another  of those  greats

 

The Gazal singer Hariharan, the great  Shankar  Mahadevan , the light music queen Mrs.Usha Uthup and Smt Anuradha Sriram , Bombay Jayashree and present light music mastero Manohar Iyer also belong to the group of Kerala Iyers.

Sri Mohan Iyer who has collected remarkable information on all aspects of Carnatic Music as well Dr.P.P.Bharata Iyer an authority on Kathakali again are Kerala Iyers.

 

These are but a few of the real top ranking musicians of Palakkad. Their contribution to the development of this school is really great by any standards.

Mathikere jyosyar Ramachandra mama alias P.R.Ramachander alias Raja Thatha

Mathikere  jyosyar Ramachandra mama alias  P.R.Ramachander alias  Raja Thatha

 

     Right  from  age of 40  I having helping people to match horoscopes for matrimony  . After  I retired I started doing it as a cservice in on line.Thousands of people   consulted me including people  from Lanka, Australia, USA  and far east

      There  are  several families  all whose marriages have taken place   after matching horoscopes by me.Slowly the next generation of people    from same families   are approaching me.

     At the time , I started  the service , I was staying in Mathikare. I became  extremely  popular  in  all  Brahmin localaties  near by. At  that time my  e mail  id started  with ramya 475 (ramya name of my house , 475 number) .

     Due to need of old age, we left  Mathikare and moved  to Koramangala. My original  e mail id was hacked

    It was then a stuggle   to reestablish myself  in a new locality  with new e mail id

   I thought my  earlier clients  forgot about me  . Recently  I annonunced  that I will help people for  horoscope matching Then I realized   that all people  were telling each other  that  I am the mathikare  josyar  mama   and referring to my old e mail id

 

My present  e mail id  is ramachander926@ gmail.com . Please request me by e mail  to know  my telephone number  and do not use old land  line number

Faith and devotion causes miracles

Faith and devotion  causes  miracles

 

It is usual    for people   to ask me  questions?  One gentleman wanted to know, how   to get  cured of  Diabates

 

I searched and in my collection there was one , I had reference to a temple called “Venni karumbeswarar  of Venni in Tamil nadu.

 

https://rajathathablog.blogspot.com/2017/11/venni-karumbeswarar-temple-of-kovil.html

 

It was written there

 

“   People with  Diabetes come to this temple  with a 50:50 mixture of sugar   andwheat Rava   and go round the temple sprinkling the mixture .It is believed that  as the ants keep  on removing sugar  , our sugar level would also get reduced ,After this they should worship the God and goddess  of the temple   and offer the God  SArkarai pongal.”    I communicated this   to him about 8  months back

 

   Today he   writes toi me

 

Some few months atleast  may be in oct.last year. I had sought your help in getting cure for diabtetis and other problem you had suggested me to just visit veni  Karumabershwar temple and put raw wth suger for ants in that temple. Although i could not visit that temple and I had visted our shiva temple which is there near our house and thare was also a Saibaba idol in that temple and sincerely praayedt o baba putting sugar mixd  rawa near baba idol for ants to eat and I prayed that both shiva and baba are one please heal my brother's diabetis and BP and herpes with heart problem
I had regulary vistited temple till April.2021 and now my brother is fully recovered from diabteris and herpes altthough doctor informed to continue mediicne for some more time
Thanking you for you advice.

 

I think  what   cured him was  his rock like faith   and devotion to God