Video | Tyagaraja’s ekaika raga kritis – lecture recital by Dr R S Jayalakshmi (vina)

Items – Ekaikara raga kritis*
1 Raga SaraswatimanOhari: enta vEDukondu rAghavA
2 Raga Vardhani: Manasa Mana
3 Raga Devamruthavarshini: Evarani
4 Raga Vachaspati: kaNTa jUDumi
5 Raga Manjari: Patti viduva
6 Raga Kaapinarayani: Sarasasamadana

Vina: Dr R S Jayalakshmi & Charulatha Chandrasekar 

Mridangam: Kalaimamani Sri TR Sundaresan >>

Live lecture-recital at Arkay Convention Center (Chennai) on 17 October 2025 organized by Madhuradhwani

*Ekaika kriti raga refers to a “single song raga” though additional songs or kritis may, of course, have been added later on. In 1996 senior musicologist and Padma Shri awardee SR Janakiraman presented a conference paper at the Music Academy Madras wherein he stressed the importance of “Ekaika krti ragas” by Tyagaraja for later composers including Pattanam Subrahmanya Ayyar (cf. “Glossary-cum-Index”, The Oxford Illustrated Companion to South Indian Classical Music).