But more generally, Siva as the destroyer of the Trinity, has overlordship over Kala, Yama, Dharma or Death, and is described as having saved several other devotees from death. Usually, the allusion to crushing Death, is taken as a specific reference to Siva saving the boy-sage Markandeya. Sankara literally means "He who does good".
Strangely, though Tyagaraja calls Siva the essence of Sama Veda, in his form as Rudra, or as one of the Rudras, Siva appears in the Sama Veda in only eight or nine verses of nearly two thousand. Such themes appear in many places in Tyagaraja's kritis. In his five headed form, Siva is considered the creator of music. Sama Veda is considered the origin of music, as singing its verses was the first sacred music. That guardian of Tyagaraja the immaculate.Īs a Nadopaska, or one whose music was his worship, Tyagaraja frequently praised music itself, or its elements, and considered it the most exalted.
To Sankara, the embodiment of the musical art,įrom Sadyojata and the others of His five faces,Įtudes of the fine seven notes, Death's bane, titillate, Raga citta ranjani, 22 karaharapriya janyaĪa: S R2 G2 M1 P D2 N2 S Av: S N2 D2 P M1 G2 R2 S
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