Ever since i read ps, the amazing lure of Raja raja chola and his meikeerthi/prasithi has been close to my heart. The project madurai archives yeiled the meikeerthi source file ( its in our files section as well) - so an idea dawned to have podcasts of each great kings meikeerthi as they would be sung - with due considerations to my tamil, i was bouncing the idea with quite a number of friends, till vinjamoor decided to take on the challenge. Why i say challenge is, the verses are complex conjoined creations and like a surgeon you got to split them to come with the actual words ( padam pirithal).
However, wanting vinjamoor to do this on his own, i just gave him the macro idea and he hit it out on his own. Credit to him, he has come out with a masterly narration. Thanks to thiru again for helping us and egging us on.
I hope you will all like this and join me in congratulating vinjamoor venkatesh on his maiden effort. I hope this will spur him and many more interested enthusiasts to do such and help preserve our rich heritage
My sincere thanks for your guidance. In fact you made me do this.
And Thiru, Thanks for hosting this on the site and your valuable comments.
Hoping to do moreon this with other Meikeerthis as well. But will need some time as, asrightly said by Vijay, itis really tough to decipher and understand each word.
Very good effort Mr. Venkatesh (V). I already heard this.
This should be spread properly. It is a fact that most of the people do not know RRC. This should also reach people who can not read or write tamil. If possible you can give short meanings (explanation)in simple tamil whenever a difficult phrase of tamil intervenes.
Yes, Iam planning to giveshort meanings, if not word by word. In fact I have done this in the first one itself. Only that, it is given as asummary of the meanings.