Why have you chosen Divya Prabandham for archiving the music?
We hear a few verses of ‘Divya Prabandham’ being recited in temples and in many homes as part of their daily pooja. But I believe they were originally set to music. In one pasuram (verse) it is said that ‘paavin innisai paadi thirivene’ (I will sing your glory, Lord). Though the pattern of these verses is in Iyarpa or Viruttam, they have music in them. Do you intend to bring back the music in all the 4000 verses of Divya Prabandham? Though I very much wish to do this, my humble effort at this stage is to preserve at least a few of the verses with music set to them. Say about 800 verses and in about 20 to 30 ragas, which will be sung by the future generation in the concerts. Is this a pioneering effort? We have heard a recording of a set of verses by B. V. Raman and B. V. Lakshmanan! Though all the hymns are believed to have been sung with music, there is no definite tradition with explanation or notations. So, these are restricted to religious occasions or read with a literary interest
