Sri Papanasam Sivan's compositions in Readable Romanized Tamil & in Tamil script.

These files are available for non-commercial distribution only from:
http://venus-qe7.griffin.peachnet.edu/abirami/sivan.html

Please include all the files.

The files in this package are:

Information File:
SIVAN0.TXT	This file

Song Files in Readable Romanized Tamil:
SIVAN1.TXT	Part 1 101 compositions
SIVAN2.TXT	Part 2 101 compositions
SIVAN3.TXT	Part 3 101 compositions
SIVAN4.TXT	Part 4 101 compositions

Support Files for MSDOS Usage:
TAMILVU.EXE     Tamil viewer for DOS only.
SIVANALL        List of song files
SIVAN.BAT       For DOS usage to search and view in Tamil and Roman script.

MS-Windows Tamil Script version:
SIVAN.SRI       Use this file with ADHAWIN.TTF Truetype to view all 
                the songs in Tamil.

Macintosh/Mylai Tamil version:
SIVAN.MYL       Use this file with MYLAI.TTF Truetype to view all the songs
                in Tamil. Contact Dr. Kalyanasundaram at 
                Kuppuswamy.Kalyanasundaram@dcqm.epfl.ch for MYLAI fonts.

The source of these compositions are the four volumes of his
compositions by Dr.Rukmini Ramani, daughter of Sri Papanasam Sivan
himself. The books also contain detailed notation for singing. We
recommend that you buy these books, to encourage such publications.
They cost about Rs.75 each. Copies can be had from the author
Dr.Papanasam Rukmini Ramani, B-5 Rohini Gardens, Raja Annamalaipuram,
Madras 600028.

The following people typed these 400 compositions voluntarily.
Vol 1. 01-49  K.Srinivasan email: srini@ireq.ca,
Vol 1. 50-100 Lalitha and Siva Mani  e-mail: samani19@mail.alliance.net,
Vol 2. 01-100 Vijaya & Kumar Mallikarjunan e-mail: vijaya@usa.pipeline.com, 
Vol 3. 01-100 Vijaya & Kumar Mallikarjunan e-mail: vijaya@usa.pipeline.com,
Vol 4. 01-100 Lalitha and Siva Mani  e-mail: samani19@mail.alliance.net

Here is a note based on an article in Sruthi Magazine June 1990.

Sri Papanasam Sivan composed more than 2000 songs, mostly in Tamil.
800 of these were for Tamil films. This set contain just 400 of his
Carnatic music compositions. It appears that the rest are yet to
appear in print. He received several titles including "Tamil
Tyagaraja". Some of the films for which he composed songs are
ambikapathy, nandanaar, sakuntalai (sung by MSS), Savithri (sung by
MSS), Sivakavi (sung by MKT), Thyagaboomi (sung by DKP).
The Music Acadamy of Madras was extremely late in recognizing him.

He was born in 1890 in Polagam near thanjaavoor to Sri Ramamritha Iyer
and Yogambal. He was called Ramaiah by people close to him.
The Papanasam of Sri Sivan is between Kumbakonam and Thanjavoor, with
its own railway station served by passenger trains. That is where his
brother stayed and he used to pass much of his time there. From 1898
to 1910 he lived in Thiruvanthapuram. In 1917 he married Lakshmi,
daughter of Sri Ayyaaswami Iyer of Nagapattinam. He also
translated many Malayalam and Sanskrit works into Tamil.
He passed away in 1973 at the age of 83.

Note: Please send typographic corrections to:
Kumar Mallikarjunan e-mail: pmallik@cfsqe.griffin.peachnet.edu,
who is maintaining these files in his site.