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Pillaiyar Suḻi (Tamil: பிள்ளையார் சுழி), also rendered Ganesha's curl or Ganesha's circle, is a sacred textual symbol. It is dedicated to the Hindu deity Pillaiyar (Ganesha), who is ritually worshiped first with prayers for success and is used to symbolize an auspicious beginning.
Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...
The consonants of these notes, ga and na also appear as the first consonants in the name of the god (Ga-na-pati). Thus, Muthuswami Dikshitar may have digressed from his usual ragas and composed in Hamsadhvani, due to the Tantric associations with Ganesha. Amy Catlin suggests that the composition is composed to conjure the image of a dancing ...
Ganesha is referred to by his epithet of Vinayaka in the strota, and the title itself can be translated as "The five jewels in praise of Ganesha". The five jewels are the first five verses, while the sixth verse implores the listener to themselves read or recite the strota and tells them the resulting benefits.
13th-century Ganesha bronze. Late Chola, Tamil Nadu. Vinayagar Agaval is a devotional poetic hymn to the Hindu deity Ganesha. It was written in the 10th century during the Chola dynasty by the Tamil poet Avvaiyar, shortly before her death. [1] It is considered to be her greatest poem. [2] The 72-line 'Agaval' is a form of blank verse, close to ...
In the post-Sangam period, between the third and the fifth centuries CE, Tamil music evolved to a higher sophistication. Cilappatikāram, written around the fifth century CE, describes music based on logical, systematic and scientific calculations in the arrangements of the dancers on the stage to represent the notes and panns.
Musical Symbols is a Unicode block containing characters for representing modern musical notation.Fonts that support it include Bravura, Euterpe, FreeSerif, Musica and Symbola.
Mohanakalyani is a rāgam in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is a janya rāgam (derived scale) from the 65th melakarta scale Mechakalyani.It is a janya scale, as it does not have all the seven swaras (musical notes) in the ascending scale.