Sanskrit Compositions of Papanasam Sivan

Compiled by Ashok Madhav  (madhav_pgh@yahoo.com)

Papanasam Sivan is the most prominent Tamil composer of the 20th century. He was prolific and his compositions number more than 2500. Many of his compositions are popularly rendered by musicians.  Though he is well known as a composer of Tamil kritis, he has composed a large number of kritis in Sanskrit too. The most commonly heard Sanskrit kritis are ‘Sri Vallidevasena pathe’ in Natabhairavi, ‘Srinivasa tava charanam’ in Kharaharpriya and Rama padamboruham in Kuntalavarali. There are more than 40 compositions in Sanskrit and they are listed below. Interestingly Sivan has also composed one kriti in Telugu. ‘Nannu brova nikemi’ in Valaji.

Avaang manasa- Chakravakam   

Balakrishna maam pahi- Saveri

Bala pahi vasudeva- Nilambari

Balasubramanya –Kedaragoula

Bhagavottama- Behag

Chamundeshwari shankari- Saveri

Chandra kalavatam-Shankarabharanam

Dasharathatmajam –Purvikalyani    

Dayanidhe janakipathe- Nata 

Devaki vara bala- Kurinji 

Dhim tana udara (tillana)-Behag 

Dhim tarana dhim (tillana) Shanmukhapriya

Giridhara gopala- Mohanam

Janakipathe jaya- Kharaharapriya

Jaya jaya bhuvanapathe- Bhimpalas 

Jaya vijayibhava- Maand 

Je Pandharisha- Sohani

Kailasa chala vasa- Hindolam

Krishna mukunda- Navaroj 

Krishna nama bhajare- Behag

Madhava maya mamava- Hamsanandi   

Marajanaka madhusudana- Ragamalika 

Mohana Krishna- Surati 

Nama bhajare Rama-Maand

Narayana nalinayata- Sama  

Natarajo vijayate-Vasanta

Padmanabha mam pahi- Kalyani

Pahi meenalochani- Bilahari 

Patita pavana rama- Todi  

Radha mukha kamala- Hindustani Kapi  

Ramam bhajata-Sri  

Ramaa padamboruham- Kuntalavarali   

Sharade veena vadana-Devagandhari

Sri madhava vasudeva-Behag

Srinivasa tava charam- Kharaharapriya

Sri radha ramana- Behag

Sri ramabhadra-Saramati

Sri ramabhadra- Surati 

Sri shanmukham- Bhairavi

Sri valli devasenapathe- Natabhairavi

Sri vishwanatham- Bhairavi 

Sridhara venkatesham- Kalyani

Tava charanam mama-Todi

Yamuna teere- Hamirkalyani.