banTu reeti kOlu - Click to listen (Aruna Venkatraman. Also T.M. Krishna, and M.S. Subbulakshmi)!

Lyrics

pallavi banTu reeti kOlu viyavaiyya raama | (banTu) anupallavi tuNTa viNTi vaani modalaina madaa- | dula goTTi nela goola jEyu nija || (banTu) caraNam rOmaanca manu ghana kancukamu | raama bhaktuDanu mudra biLLayu || raama naama manu vara khaDga mivi | raajillu naiyya tyaagaraajuni kE || (bunTu)

Notation

Available in English here. Also available on Shivkumar Kalyanaraman's site here. Listen to the music class here.

Other Information

This song popularized the raga hamsanaadam. Song performed for karnATik by Aruna Venkatraman.