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SAINT-COMPOSER
TYAGARAJA'S
NAUKA CARITRAMU
(Geya Natika)
(A musical play)
Transliteration and Translation
C. VASUNDHARA
 The
Nauka Caritramu is a brilliantly conceived 'Geya Natika' or
musical play by Tyagaraja (1767-1847), the great saint-composer
of Carnatic (South-Indian) music. Written in the Telugu language,
the mother tongue of Tyagaraja, it is a 'Sravya-samgita rupaka',
a musical play for recital. A beautiful, allegorical ensemble
of a musical motif, it can also be studied as a poetical classic.
As a musical play, it is greatly popular because of its fascinating
and imaginative theme, in which Tyagaraja has ingeniously combined
the most captivating episode of the Mahabhagavatapurana, viz.,
the 'Gopikavastrapaharanam' and the 'Rasalila'.
In this transliteration and translation of the Nauka Caritramu,
Dr. C. Vasundhara has done the transliteration in Roman script
in strict accordance with the Telugu orthography; and, in the
translation she has made a sincere attempt to render into English
idiom the literary beauty (sahitya saundarya), the musical excellence
(samgita vaisistya) and the philosophical allegory (vedamta
amtarartha), the three essential characteristics, which the
Nauka Caritramu consists of.
In the 'Notes' classical allusions in the Nauka Caritramu are
elucidated and attention is drawn to narrative episodical parallelisms
between the Nauka Caritramu and the Mahabhagavata.
ISBN: 81-79862-049-3
Rs.300
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