Thursday, October 15, 2009

Bhagyada Lakshmi Baramma

They say music has no language or religion. Bhagyada Lakshmi Baramma is a beautiful Hindu Kannada devotional song composed by 15th century poet Purandara Dasa and is dedicated to Goddess Lakshmi, the divine consort of Lord Vishnu. Goddess Lakshmi means Good Luck to Hindus. The word Lakshmi is derived from the Sanskrit word Lakshya, meaning aim or goal, and she is the goddess of wealth and prosperity, both material and spiritual. Here is a compilation of this song, sung and played on instruments by various artists at different times, a Diwali gift to all my readers.

    

M S Subbulakshmi :  Download








Bhimsen Joshi :  Download








S P Balasubramaniam :  Download








The lyrics roughly translated into English go like this :

Oh, Goddess of Fortune, Lakshmi Devi,
Do come slowly with your anklets making the jingling sound,
Come to us like butter emerging out of buttermilk when it is churned.

Come and shower on us a rain of gold and fulfill our aspirations,
Come with the brightness of countless number of rays of the sun,
Come and bless us, Oh, Devi, who has taken incarnation as Sita.

Oh, lotus eyed Devi who is the pride of Mahavishnu,
Appear before us wearing the shining golden bracelets on your wrists,
and the auspicious vermilion mark on your forehead,
Oh, Consort of Purandaravithala.

Welcome to You who shine auspiciously in the hearts of great sages,
Oh, Queen of Alagiri Ranga,
Come to our worship on Friday when ghee and sugar will overflow.


... and the instrumental versions :

Ananyampatti S Dhandapani on Jaltarang :  Download








Chandrasekaran M & Bharathi on Violin :  Download








Kunnagudi Vaidyanathan on Violin :  Download








Gayathri E on Veena :  Download








K Gopalnath on Saxophone & P Godkhindi on Flute :  Download






9 comments:

Keshav.Kulkarni said...

wow, wonderful post.

Anonymous said...

Wonderful effort

Unknown said...

Great post! Thoroughly enjoyed reading it & listening to the various artists. Thanks for taking the trouble to do this.

Anonymous said...

could someone please tell me which raaga is each version of song in..

Anonymous said...

Thank very much blogger :-) for bagyada laxmi baramma song fre download

Anonymous said...

Hi,

I was searching for this song , wanted to download it to my computer. Thank you for the download facility....

Aparna Heroor said...

Just happened to bump into your blog while looking for Bhimsen Joshi's version of Bhagyadalakshmi......quite like your blog! Am gonna follow it! :)

Anonymous said...

Thanks a lot :)

Vasudha Nagaraj said...

thanks so much for taking the trouble and posting it online. this song was sung by my grandmother and it gives me such fond memories.

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