Lakshmi Vallabha

After listening to Pushkar Lele's excellent and very effective rendition of Kumar Gandharv's Tukaram abhang "Lakshmi Vallabha Dinanatha Padmanabha" on Marathi SRGMP, I rushed back to my files of KG's Tukaram Darshan. Ever since, it has been playing on repeat mode on my computer.

A search for the lyrics on the net wasn't fruitful for a a long time. I finally found it in the complete Tukaram Gatha on marathi wikibooks--an amazing resource!!! This is the URL: http://mr.wikibooks.org/wiki/

And here's a transliteration of Lakshmi Vallabha:

Lakshmi Vallabhaa, Dinaanaathaa Padmanaabhaa |Dhru|
Sukh vase tuze paayee, Maj thevee te chi thaayee |1|
Maazhee alp hee vaasanaa, Tu to udaaraachaa raanaa |2|
Tukaa mhane bhoge, Peedaa keli dhaav vege |3|

p.s.

May 6th 09

So, there's a Composer's Day celebration that Rama has organized in honor of Thyagraja Aradhana. And I am planning to sing my version of Lakshmi Vallabha [influenced by KG's original and Pushkar's interpretation]. Here's what you would call in academic parlance, a rough rough-draft:

Aditi cannot resist singing (and recording and posting) Lakshmi Vallabha.