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Guestbook
Krishnamoorty Dasu
New Jersey
Dear Damu
Let me tell you how happy I am at your dedication to music and its great composers. The translation is as close to the spirit of the lyrics as possible. You have justified my pride in the Dasu lineage. Your effort is a fitting homage to the legacy the great composers have left behind.
The three of you (Damu, Vimala and Santa)deserve each other.Congratulations is a formal term that does not convey my appreciation of your joint effort. Blessings.
Annai.
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Srinivasa Kishore
Tallahassee, FL
Dasu garu,
Surekha joins me in congratulating you on this tremendous work. This is a true treasure for music lovers. On the day you had shown me the draft, I knew it would turn out into a great work.
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Durga Yerramilli
Atlanta, GA
Uncle,
It is a wonderful site and very much needed for everyone. A hearty congratulations to you. We will enjoy this site years to come. It is not an effort of one generation but three, makes it more special. Thanks to you all for bringing this to us.
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Viji Ramkumar
Atlanta, Ga
Uncle,
Thank you so much for giving us such a valuable
resource by translating so many songs. It is
very beneficial for people like us who are not very
well versed in the Telugu language. We appreciate your
efforts.
We would also like to wish you the very Best on your
75th birthday.
Take care.
With warm regards,
Viji and Ram
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Padma Rallapalli
Atlanta, GA
Uncle
This is wonderful. Finally there is a place we can go to and see what some of these songs really mean. I am just glad you took the time to do this – its value is beyond anything I can say for me personally and for the folks who appreciate carnatic music today and in coming generations. Thank you very much!!
Wish you a very Happy Birthday!!
Santa – what a wonderful present to give on this special day for uncle. This is awesome!!
Thanks!
Padma and Ramakanth Rallapalli
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seshu sarma
atlanta
Rao garu,
I want to congratulate you as well as thank you for your invaluable contribution to Carnatic music. I will share this website with some of my Tamil friends. Ram Sriram, the president of CMAGA, Kalpana Rengarajan, Sujatha Rayburn and many others would love to have a reference on hand to check out the meanings of Telugu compositions. I always knew you are very knowledgeable but never realized your passion and the talent you had. What you have done is a penance in itself and I am glad that we are able to enjoy the fruits of your efforts. It's a privilege for us to have known you personally.
Wishing you many happy returns and hoping to receive much more from your pen,
seshu sarma
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Janaki Harati
Atlanta
Rao garu,
Many Happy Returns of your Diamond Jubilee Birthday.
This is a gift to all who loves Carnatic music. It is wonderful website and I have bookmarked it.
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Venkat Raga
New York
Hi,
You have done excellent job. I really enjoyed by reading all the slokas. Keep it up.
I would like to suggest one thing if you don't mind. If you add audio songs then that would be more helpfull to new people who don't know how to sing.
This is my opinion only.
But good job and keep it up.
Venkat.
:)
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Kesavarapu Family
Atlanta
Dear Uncle,
We sincerely thank you for the effort you have put in to explain some of the famous songs in an easily understandable way. Even though we speak Telugu fluently, it is difficult to understand some of the words/sentences in some of these songs. With the resources you have provided, we can derive more enjoyment from these songs. Do not stop your work here. Keep adding more songs as and when you get free time. If you can add mp3 clips of these songs, that would have been a one-stop shop. GREAT JOB!!!!
We wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous 75th birthday.
Best Wishes.
Subramanyam, Krishnaveni & Keerthana
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Chary Tamirisa
Roseville, CA
Sir,
What a wonderful service you have done! Respectful thanks to you.
Sainath Tamirisa
San Diego
Respected Sir,
I bow to you for the great help you have done for music lovers like us who do not know the lyrics. It will be excellent if we can hear the kirtanas also from the same web site. With respects and regards, Sai
Vasanthi Venkataraman
Saratoga CA
Dear Uncle,
A truly inspirational and incredible work. I am greatly impressed with your compilation. I scanned through it briefly. I have book marked it for future reading.
Warm regards,
-Vasanthi
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Rathna Kumar
Houston, Texas
You are an amazing gentleman! What profundity of knowledge, and how well translated the songs, and that too, in such good English! For dancers your work is so useful, because it can help them understand the lyrics so much better, and thus aid them in their choreography. The same goes for musicians (vocalists especially), who, once they understand the depth of the meaning, will be able to sing with greater feeling. This is truly a labor of love, and it is to be commended, admired, and appreciated. On behalf of music lovers, a big ''thank you''.
Respectfully,
Rathna Kumar
Director, Anjali Center for Performing Arts, Houston, Texas
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Yamini Aluru
San Jose
Uncle,
Congratulations and thank you for compiling such a wonderful and useful body of work. I am thanking you because it is such a needed source and by putting it on the web you have made it accessible to many people.
Srinivas Iduri
Hyderabad, India
Great effort. ts pity that we are depending on a foreign language to learn the treasure of our music. But atleast, we have people like you still who can do all this for the next generations. If possible, why dont you provide even the telugu translation in most common telugu for people who can read telugu but can't understand the meaning of the lyric.
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Sirisha Mudunuri
Fremont CA
Uncle,
Splendid job on the compilation and translation! Kudos to all of you! It takes a lot of passion, dedication and hardwork to bring forth something of this magnitude, that will give Carnatak music lovers untold happiness for years to come! My mother will be thrilled with this website. She is an excellant singer and will be overjoyed to find some of her favourite (mine too) Annamacharya Keerthanas, here. Congratulations!
Best regards,
Sirisha
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Suganda Iyer
San Jose CA
Hi Santa and Uncle,
Thank you so very much for all your effort in putting this together. It is an invaluable asset to all the dancers and teachers all over the world. I had just completed choreographing Alarulu of Annamacharya's songs and I wanted to make sure that I had choreographed exactly to the meaning. I would love to meet uncle and get the inner meaning to some songs that I wish to choreograph in the future.
My Namaskarams to Uncle and Aunty
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Srividya Daita
Cupertino
My salutations to Sri. Damodara Rao for his magnanimous effort in translating these great keertanas and making it easier for Indian Americans to easily understand the real meaning. Indeed a great work and achievement.
Janaki Tenneti
Dear Babaigaru,
I did not realize the magnitude of the project you were working on. Wow!. Nice job by the web designers as well. Very user friendly. I can see all the music and dance schools wanting to use this when they are training their students. This will be a lasting legacy. Regards Janaki
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Sarada Purna Sonty
Sri8 Annamcharya Project of North Amewrica SAPNA
Behalf of our organization, members, Sonty Sisters, Dr. Sri RAm President SAPNA, and I , Sarada Purna congratulate you for a great work and Leading the world of music a step up . Thank you.......Sarada Purna
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Geetha
CA
Hi,
Excellent site. Please keep up the good work. It is great to finally understand the music that I've enjoyed for so many years. Can you add the translations of Swati Tirunal compositions? Thanks!
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kiran b
Location india
This website is very useful to people. I will send more annamaiah keertanas meenings, writen by my guru new age master vamsi garu. Thanks
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Vimala Dasu
Location 2341 Esperanca Ave,Santaclara,95054
It is very useful to seniors also.Thanks.Vimala
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LAKSHMI NARAYANAN
INDIA
Comments Very informative. MP3 files of the same may kindly be included.
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Sridhar
Canberra, Australia
Peddavaariki Pranaam,
Its a great helpful work that you are doing to Karnatic music lovers all around the world! I salute thou with lots of respect and congratulate you for such a wonderful work!!
I think, in the same line as Tyagarjulu, Annamacharyulu it would be befitting to include Shri Purandara Dasaru also, as you have included Dikshitar and others. Just my humble opinion.
Pranam
Sridhar
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Anandam Nalmas
vasavi colony Hyderabad,India
Comments Damodar garu,you did wonderful work,and I appreciate&congratulate for your wonderful task.I thank for giving me an opportunity to see your work. N.Anandam
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Aurangabad
vsoumyasri@hotmail.comd
Comments: First of all I want to wish you all the very best wishes and congratulations for creating such a useful and beautiful site.
I was looking for meanings of some kirtanas for days and I tried in so many websites but couldn\'t find anything worthwhile and satisfactory.
I am a bharata Natyam & Kuchipudi danseuse and this site is a boon, treasure for me.
It\'s a wonderful site.
Regards,
Soumyasree
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RACINE, WI, USA
jaisree.rangarajan@gmail.com
Comments: I love this web I am glad you took the time to do this monumental task.
thanks
jaisree ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vijay karthikeyan A nagaswara artist
chidambaram,INDIA
karthiswaram@yahoo.com
Comments: Respected sir,
Namaskaram.this work has been very helpfull to every mucission and it is Greatfull jop. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phanisri Kuchibotla
Fremont, CA
vedasri@hotmail.com
Comments: Namaste Uncle. I bought the Annamacharya Sankeertana translations yesterday at YuvaBharati show and am totally mesmerized by the book. I just saw your website and wanted to thank you for the treasure you have shared. Appreciation for our music has increased multifold after understanding them in depth, though it is indeed unfortunate that I had to read it in English to understand the full essence of the lyrics. Thanks again.
Regards,
Phani
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Irvine,CA, USA
madhava.krishna@gmail.com
Comments: You are doing an excellent job.
May god bless you.
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Chennai
srinathk.881989@gmail.com
Comments: Your website is absolutely excellent and it was just what I was looking for. The translations are wonderfully done and thank you especially for bringing out many lyrics of annamacharya compositions. I love the style of the translations.
Sangeeta sudha is a great resource for people like us who are passionate about Carnatic Music and who would like to enhance our knowledge of the compositions without which no study of music can said to be complete.
Great Job. Please keep it up. I hope that your project grows more and more and is able to serve many more people.
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india
rasamayi@rediffmail.com
Comments: thanks very much - a useful site for knowing the meanings of all the songs (besides lyrics of course). thanks.
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yc-Miller5044@escapedemail.com
Comments: I liked your site.
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Los Angeles, CA
veenakrishna@gmail.com
Comments: Dear Sir,
I can\'t thank enough with mere words! A big \"salute\" to you for accomplishing this with such tremendous efforts. Finally, a Global Repository for music lovers with good translations! It would be a great idea, if you could include rendering samples of each kruti in mp3 formats, just next to each title. That would help understand raaga scales as well. Wish you are already working on it !
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Stoney Creek,On, Canada
jimmydave@cogeco.ca
Comments: Thank you for sharing this wealth of knowledge. There was always this curiosity in me about our rich south Indian culture of music and literature. You can be sure I will keep myself busy with this wonderful website. It is truly the richest wealth of literary devotional music found nowhere in the world but India.
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Bangalore
ramya475@hotmail.com
Comments: Kudos to the great work you are doing. Recently I too have started translating Karnatic music Krithis in to english. You can find them in my web site
http://stotraratna.sathyasaibababrotherhood.org/gi.htm
P.R.Ramachander
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Tampa
sskrishna@hotmail.com
Comments: Sri Dasu garu
Not everyday one can find a website like yours. I have seen most correct transliteration and meanings for various krithis on your website.
I sure hope the database will grow more and more. I am not sure how I can, but if I can be of any help, please do contact me on my email.
Krishna
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Bengaluru
supradeep321@gmail.com
Comments: You have done good work. It helps for a non-telugu people like me.I love your work.It helps me a LOT.
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Westford MA
vaishnavikondapalli@yahoo.com
Comments: This is truly a lifetime achievement and a treasure trove for future generations to learn about the Indian Classical Music. I enjoyed browsing the website. Thanks for your work.
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mysore
srinath.g82@gmail.com
Comments: Hello Sir,
Thank you very much for this wonderful library of Compositions. If you have Can you please upload or (send via email) lyrics with NOTES Sri Neelotpala Nayike of Sri MUttuswamy dikshitar
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New york
sudha_yadavalli@yahoo.com
Comments: Dear Sir,
Thank You so much for this website. I am not a singer, but am a good listener and its good to know the meaning of those rythmically beautiful verses. Thanks once again to you and to all those who helped you put this up.
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TX
malkimama@gmail.com
Comments: Thanks so much for such a valuable website. I\'ve been looking for meanings to Annamacharya Kirtanas for a long time and your site is indeed the one that I\'m looking. Once again, Great Work. Keep it up.
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london
jimjankatt@talktalk.net
Comments: I live in the UK ater emigrating from Mauritius. Our great parents are from UP. Though I do not speak Telegu, I have taken an interest in Telugu bhakti songs.
Yous site are an inspiration for people like me. You do a great service to Telugu community world wide.
Well done. Continue with your good work.
Jim
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Washington DC
nprakash65@yahoo.co.in
Comments: I came across this website while searching for meanings of songs I wanted to choreograph for dance. I can only imagine the amount of work that has gone into putting such a comprehensive website together. A great service to dancers and musicians - thank you for making it easier for us!
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colombus ohio
karetextiles@yahoo.co.in
Comments: I am very much impressed with your dedication to the works our sankeertanacharyas
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bahrain
kcbiekha@gmail.com
Comments: sir, wonderful work.Pl try to include swatithirunal kritis also.loving almighty\'s blessings are always with you.
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Chennai
gct.ranga@gmail.com
Comments: Great work! Thanks for taking the time and doing the translation! Please continue to do so.
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malaysia
navymaddy@yahoo.com
Comments: I think u did a nice great. It will encourage those who are learning carnatic. Keep it up. God will bless ur hardwork..
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INDIA
klisss2462@yahoo.com
Comments: Good website. MP3 files may kindly be included.
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Hyderabad
vgnr1@yahoo.com
Comments: web site choosanu chala bagundi.i met u personally at andhra mahila sabha,vidyanagar.
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Hyderabad
madhukrks@gmail.com
Comments: Fabulous job!!!I appreciate your love for music and your endless lyric collection.It has helped me a lot and is a gift to all carnatic music lovers in the world.Keep gooing!!!
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Hyderabad
kummamuru.kameswar@gmail.com
Comments: It is the great platform of web that brought in to light the selfless service rendered by you and others to the music lovers which can be valued and quantified
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HYDERABAD
pbindu@gmail.com
Comments: Thanks a lot for the English translation and putting the lyrics in English.
April 15,2011.
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Bangalore
ramya475@hotmail.com
Comments: Dear Friends,
I have so far translated 485 Krithis writen in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, SAnskrit and HIndi in to English. You would see my translations in my web site
http://stotraratna.sathyasaibababrotherhood.org/gi.htm
Si Chakravarthi madhusudana has been helping me by editing my translation fromk Kannada as well as sending me translations from Kannada to English. I welcome all interested people to help me in this venture of mine, P.R.Ramachander
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Massachusetts
vaishnavikondapalli@yahoo.com
Comments: Came back to check the meaning of Bantu reethi Kolu... This such a great reference. Aaroni sang this song at a local temple.
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Pondicherry India
smurals@gmail.com
Comments: Great work! Many thanks for taking all this trouble.Wonderful site for music lovers!
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Centreville, VA
rameshkotikalapudi@hotmail.com
Comments: Thanks for building this web site. We really appreciate the effort put into this. This has been a great help not only to understand the meaning but some times to get the correct text.
Ramesh Kotikalapudi.
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Kerala
syamgs.87@gmail.com
Comments: This is really great..! I salute you for this great effort...
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hyderabad
ammu_bittu@in.com
Comments: Namaskaram
please provide the option of \"free download\"
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Hyderabad
rags555@rediffmail.com
Comments: We are grateful to the creators of this site
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Guntur, India
vsitaramiah@gmail.com
Comments: Comments: Grateful to Sri Dasu Damodar Rao and his team for producing such a wonderful and informative website.
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chennai
guruneyveli@gmail.com
Comments: Wonderful service to the music world.
our sincere thanks to you.
NEyveli Santhanagopalan
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Maryland
pavanisrikanth@gmail.com
Comments: Its a treasure trove for music lovers and seekers.The availability of a huge collection of great composers along with translation is wonderful.Our sincere compliments and wishes.
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Columbus
raom78@gmail.com
Comments: From last 2 years i am following this site . During singing most of the songs i don\'t know the meaning . you did a excellent service in so many ways to put your efforts . No words to express my happiness .
May God bless you .
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Tripunithura, Kerala
vidyasmani@gmail.com
Comments: Respected sir,
Kudos to you for maintaining such a beautiful site. I really appreciate your effort and dedication for this. You have written in a very beautiful, yet simple language. I was in search of the meaning of the song \"Deva deva praseedame \" by Narayana theertha when I came across your site. I found it extremely useful. Thank you. May Lord Guruvayoorappa bless you and family.
Can I subscribe so that I will be intimated of any additions in this site?
Thanks and regards,
Srividya Subramani
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Bangalore
prashy.hs@gmail.com
Comments: Namaste Sir,
I came across this website today. This is really good as we get the meaning of the great songs. We need to try and apply the principles and guidance shown in these songs in our daily life. Thank you Sir.
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Hyderabad, AP
ryadaval@yahoo.com
Comments: Chanced upon this site looking for meaning of innirasula uniki.. thanks to you. Found more than what I was looking for.
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Hyd
a@a.com
Comments: \"KONDARU PALKUCHU KRISHNUNU KATHALA\" Line Odanu jaripe song page lo miss ayyindi chooskondi
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mumbai
vandana_raghuram@hotmail.com
Comments: the meanings and the songs translation are very useful. if the swarams/notations were alsogiven it would have been easier to sing as it is done at the tyagaraja aaradhana festivals.
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Bangalore
musicvidya@rediffmail.com
Comments: Hats off to you sir, for the great accomplishment! you have been helping many aspirants and musicians to understand the heart of every song they go through or sing! thanks a lot to you from my side as I have been actively utilising your services to composers in my ongoing research. thank you again and again!
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Hyd
avinash.konduri@gmail.com
Comments: Amazing effort :)
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andhra pradesh
jagan473@gmail.com
Comments: hi ; very nice work for music lovers . thank you and i wish the god grace on you . thank you
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RAJAHMUNDRY
sitamahalakshmichalla1978@gmail.com
Comments: i herd this keerthana.. sri mangalampally balakrishna garu sang through radio like this \"SURULAINA NEE MAYA THELIYALERU SAMBHAVEE NEE ADHEEKAMBAGU\"
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India
durgaprasad.somanchy@gmail.com
Comments: Dear Damodara Rao garu. Sangeethasudha.org is great project music lovers in particular caranatic Music.
I bow my head for your great effort. I am die hard listener of carnatic music and I appreciate and admire your valuable work
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India
raghesh82@yahoo.com
Comments: Dear Damodara Rao Dasu,
Your Website is a boon for non-telugu speaking people who love annamayya songs. This is one website i was searching for. Thanks a lot for this painstaking yeomen devotional service....
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USA
Mahesh_matam@yahoo.com
Comments: Sir,
I stumbled upon your site by chance and was amazed at seeing what you have done. Few words are enough to praise your contrubution in propogating Carnatic music around. Thank you for doing this.
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Visakhapatnam
sowjanya.commerce@gmail.com
Comments: Thank you so much for your wonderful collection of devotional songs. Your website is helping out in knowing the meaning of songs. Thank you once again and All the Best for your future collections.
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Terre Haute, Indiana
vharichandra@gmail.com
Comments: Sri Dasu Garu
This is an excellent work to carnatic music.
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Saltlake city
swathi.g1@gmail.com
Comments: Hello Sir,
I added all kshetrayya keertana\'s in wikisource-kshetrayya page from this blog. Please let me know if you have any concerns.
Thanks
Swathi
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Chennai
guruneyveli@gmail.com
Comments: This work is going to be really useful to musicians especially from the non telugu speaking states..i sincerely appreciate your efforts.
Neyveli Santhanagopalan.
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Simi Valley, CA
bkalvakota@gmail.com
Comments: Dear Dasu garu,
Thanks for your wonderful and great effort in preserving and passing on a rich treasure to future generations. Respectfully,
-Kalvakota family
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Kochi
divyeshspai@gmail.com
Comments: Hats off..... very much thanks for this site.. one suggestion.. if possible pls upload audio also.. or make arrangements for the viewers to upload the audio...
Thanks...
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chennai
tillaiguru@gmail.com
Comments: This site sangeetasudha.org is a treasure for each and every musician as well as music lover. No words to explain how useful is this site. Kindly accept my pranams for this invaluable website. N GURU GANESH
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Atlanta
sadasivangopinath@gmail.com
Comments: Sangeeta Sudha is an inestimable Treasure for Carnatic music lovers.
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Hyderabad
sharath@bhelhyd.co.in
Comments: This place is really splendid. Its like a gift to carnatic music lovers.
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Tiruvisalur, Thanjavur
tiruvisalurbhagavatar@gmail.com
Comments: Very glad to see this collections. Is there any connection between thalappakkam Annamayya and Chinnayya? Please clarify. We are interested in doing research in dhakshina desa pavvalimpu keerthanams. Please help us. The songs are all in Telugu. We were adviced they were by Chinnayya. But I found one of the songs in this collection
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Karnataka, India
vrsprasadsai@gmail.com
Comments: Dear Sri DasuGaru,
Namaskarams. As a student of music, I always pay lot of attention to the meaning and more importantly to the spirit of the composition. This helps me in choosing only those appropriate sangathis that highlight the meaning and those which are just frills/thrills are avoided by me.
I was looking for the meaning of the song paridana michite because somehow i had an intuitive feeling that the composer was teasing the god, going by the tune... I was immensely pleased to find the meaning in your website. The soul of the song has been effectively brought out through your translation.
I bow before you. A request: can we have the translation of pahi rama prabho by Sri Ramadasu?
With deep respects and namaskarams,
R Sankara Prasad
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Bangalore
sathyanarayancv@gmail.com
Comments: Fantastic treasure house for novices as well professionals...Thank you for all those responsible for setting this up..
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Sydney, Australia.
gdkali@yahoo.com
Comments: Dear Sir,
You are indeed a blessed Soul, thank you so much this wonderful website and it\'s songs and translations that I was searching for a long time. I am Tamilian born in Malaysia however I love Sri and Sri Thiagaraja keertanas that seem to melt my heart and soul to tears though I don\'t know it\'s meaning. I was so happy that at last I found this wonderful website that gives clear translation that clears all my doubts. Thank you so much from the very bottom of my heart. Sri Rama Jayam.
Gerald Dharmaraj
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india
venkatasuryapal@yahoo.com
Comments: It is great to see such a wornderful and useful site for the next generations to come
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Mumbai India
chandrar474@gmail.com
Comments: Dear Sir, Wonderful service to the mankind. I feel, just feeding the poor or helping the needy is not service. Your site is serving the aatma of mankind. This is real service. No words to express our thanks. Many thanks and namaskarams to you.
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brisbane
sparklyspangle@gmail.com
Comments: Dear sir,
This is a very informative site. Great service to the next generation. It would be great if you could add audio files of each keerthana.
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vijayawada
sushruthae@gmail.com
Comments: Damodara Garu,
Kruthagnathalu . Iam considering myself lucky to stumble upon
your webpage.
All the best for your future
endevours . May god bless you with good health and prosperity with constant learning experiences
Best Wishes
Sushrutha
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vijayawada
sushruthae@gmail.com
Comments: Damodara Garu,
Kruthagnathalu . Iam considering myself lucky to stumble upon
your webpage.
All the best for your future
endevours . May god bless you with good health and prosperity with constant learning experiences
Best Wishes
Sushrutha
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guntakal
padmavathi1002@gmail.com
Comments: very nice
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New Jersey
lsrinivas@yahoo.com
Comments: It\'s a wonderful resource. The site along with the printed volumes are indeed a delight. More strength to Sri Dasu garu
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CA
hema@yahoo.com
Comments: Dear Sir,
You are doing a great service to the musical community with your soulful translations of all these songs. Thank you very much,
Hema
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India
mangaiatguest@gmail.com
Comments: Thanks a lot for Sangeeta Sudha for providing the lyrics and meaning to such great and noble songs.
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Chennai
nishi@vsnl.com
Comments: Reviews are highly appreciative of your great efforts. Congratulations for your stupendous effort for this service to music lovers
Please give address at Chennai Tamil nadu India where your two volume books are available for outright purchase?
Chakravarthi V Srinivasan July 14 2013 Chennai 20
E mail: nishi@vsnl.com
/cvsjsmeta@gmail.com
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Chennai
v_subbaroyan@yahoo.com
Comments: Fantastic. What a great service to the music lovers! Thanks a million
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KERALA INDIA
VENKITESPA@GMAIL.COM
Comments: RESPECTED SIR,
I HAVE GONE THROUGH THE COLLECTION. THIS IS INDEED A WONDERFUL JOB YOU HAVE DONE. WHETHER YOU WILL ACCEPT ANY ADDITIONS IF I SEND THEM TO YOU. I NOTICED THAT THE LIST OF SWATI TIRUNAL IS NOT CONTAINING ALL THE KRITIS. I HAVE A GOOD COLLECTION OF HIM.
THANKING YOU
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Hyderabad
kphani_prasad@yahoo.com
Comments: SIMPLY GREAT COLLECTION, ALL YOUR DEDICATION HELPING US TO TAKE THIS LITERATURE TO FUTURE GENERATIONS...
GOD BLESS YOU
PHANI
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hyderabad
jyotheeshkola@gmail.com
Comments: thank u so much ... sir .
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bangalore
pnag19@gmail.com
Comments: thank you
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California/Hyderabad
mvajipey@banyannation.com
Comments: Great work Sir. Wonderful repository. The site is also very nicely structured.
Thank you !
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Sydney
sivasumails@gmail.com
Comments: Dear Damu sir,
Thanks for the wonderful site. This certainly elevates my spirit.
Just a quick note - under \"Deva Devam bhaje...\" - third charanam, is it \"Lanka vishoshanam\" or \"Lanka Vinasam?\"
Please clarify. Thank you.
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Kanpurt India
sreedaya1979@gmail.com
Comments: Great Work Sir.... No words to explain my happiness. blessings always
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JAMSHEDPUR
nbabu1958@gmail.com
Comments: excellent translation for jayadeva ashtapadis.
one can add the audioclips of Dr Balamurali to extend the pronounciation and the joy of listening. God bless Dasu garu with health & long life
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Habsigua, Hyderabad
tasarma@hotmail.com
Comments: It\\\'s really great on the part of Dasu garu to rekindle the hope in many Indians, particularly who crave and propogate Indianness living abroad despite busy life and hectic work schedules. Felt very happy that so many South Indians are lovers of Jayadeva\\\'s ashtapadis and the excellent translation work done by Dasu garu. Hope the tradition of loving our classical music and lyrics continues and wish DASU garu many more years of good health to continue this excellent work
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Dhingra
pkd.coolz@gmail.com
Comments: Venerable Sir,
It is quite pleasant experience, visiting this masterpiece of our age old and nectar sweet hymns. Very thanks and many obeisance to you for providing such a precious jewel in the form of these hymns. Jay SeetaRam
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Gaithersburg, MD
pvmaruvada@gmail.com
Comments: Dasu Garu
You have given us not just one life time worth of memorable treasure but few lives worth of such treasures. You are blessed with such profound knowledge to pass on to all of us in this manner. Thanking you is too small to express instead blessings to continue enriching our lives through your works. Specially for dancers and musicians, your narrations are very adaptable and expressive lyrics to choreograph and sing. Our sincere compliments and wishes on the behalf of Aahaarya and Pranava Natyam, Maryland.
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Bangalore
Radngop@gmail.com
Comments: A great service, so commendable, indeed!
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Hyderabad
Srinivaskongs@gmail.com
Comments: Hi Sir,
I am a professional Bharatanatyam Instructor.Sangeethasudha Site really helpa me a lot in finding the meaning for the Lyrics.
I Really thank you from my heart.
Just a small request , If you could add more songs of sadashiva bramendra & Munipalli subramanya kavi , Krishna dasu.
Thanks & Regards,
Srinivas.K
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Indore
snyapathi@yahoo.com
Comments: Dear Sir
You have done a great job. Thank you for your efforts in bringing such valuable collections at one place.
Kindly refer to the following stanza reproduced from your website \"http://www.sangeetasudha.org/jayadeva/j4.html\"
kApi vilAsa vilOla vilOchana khEla janita manOjam
dhyAyati mugdha vadhoo radhikam madhusoodana vadana sarOjam ||haririha ||
I feel that khElana should be the right word in place of khEla. This is how I heard. I am not sure of the meaning.
Regards
Sreedhar Nyapathi
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JUBILEE HILLS, HYDERABAD
digavalli_ramachandra@yahoo.com
Comments: Sangeeta Sudha website became my reference site on my desk whenever I need a clarification. I would like to place on record my appreciations and gratitude to Sri Dasu Damodar Rao garu. May God bless him with full health and happiness. No other wealth would give as much satisfaction as compared to his great work. But for his transliterations I would not have ventured to even hum a tune of those great compositions and know the meaning of them
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INDIA
lalithaelr@hotmail.com
Comments: Sir, your work is really wonderful. Thanks a lot. Please continue this
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Tenali (India)
golianjaneyulu@yahoo.com
Comments: Congratulations. In your unique attempt, all the great composers were honored together and their lyrical legacy is carried forward for the generations to come to understand and enjoy hearts of saint composers.
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VISAKHAPATNAM
RAMA.SRK@GMAIL.COM
Comments: I only know to enjoy listening and self immersed in Krishna or for that matter of god and any kirtans sung by our great mahans like thyagaraja, syamasastry,muthumswami dikshtar, jayadev,leelasuka, kshetrayya, swarthitirunal etc. In eroding values of our culture, you undertook stupendous task of compiling all these valuable treasure by which the present generation will understand and will be able to follow to some extent taking some time of their busy schedule from this mundane worldly affairs. Let lord Krishna BLESS you
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Long Island, NY
kumaresh.pillai@gmail.com
Comments: Very Informative site about composers and its been listed chronologically.If you can go back even before 11th century AD , that would be helpful too. Good Job Keep it up.
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Srirangam,Tamilnadu.
ramjeeramram@gmail.com
Comments: Sir,I dont know how I missed your site for quite a long time.Thank God I got it today.
No words to appreciate your commendable excellent effort
to have compiled this sangeethapedia.My heartfelt sincere thanks and I wish many more to come thro your wonderfur service.
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Chennai
Anitha.madhavan@gmail.com
Comments: Amazing work sir, thank you so much. request you to add meera bhajans and purandara dasa kritis too.
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United Arab Emirates
pkjebin@gmail.com
Comments: Thank you Sir. :)
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NYC
ptreantafeles@gmail.com
Comments: I\'ve just run across your site and want to thank you very much for putting this resource together. I\'ve loved Carnatic music for years but as an English speaker always wanted to understand more. This is great. Thank you.
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Tampa, Florida
smtdrkd@gmail.com
Comments: Great piece of work. But sadly the translations of Purandara Dasa\\\'s kritis are not included. I wonder why ?
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chennai
vasuloosu@gmail.com
Comments: phenomenal work. you could say an all-in-one site for the lyrics and meanings.
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Chennai
k_anand_100@yahoo.com
Comments: Sir, You are great!. I love this site. In my opinion it is a great service. Thank you.
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hyderabad
sharath@bhelhyd.co.in
Comments: Great service by the author. It is really helpful to people who love carnatic music. Hats-off to the author.
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india
sivasubramanian@gmail.com
Comments: Radhe Radhe!
You are rendering a great service . Lord srinivasa will be surely happy abt u
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India
gopalkannan58@hotmail.com
Comments: Great work Sir.
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Bangalore
asriganesh@gmail.com
Comments: Thank you. No words to express my gratitude.
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Chennai, India
varalakshmi.anand@gmail.com
Comments: I am a regular user of your work both for sahitya and for meanings. In this age of computers, a well authenticated document like yours is invaluable. Thank you so much.
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New Delhi (Org Hyderabad)
sathyam.ifci@gmail.com
Comments: It is really a commendable job you have done by creating a devoted site. My heartfelt thanks to you Sir. As some of the readers expressed, I also feel Telugu version would have been an added feather.
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New Delhi (Org Hyderabad)
sathyam.ifci@gmail.com
Comments: It is really a commendable job you have done by creating a devoted site. My heartfelt thanks to you Sir. As some of the readers expressed, I also feel Telugu version would have been an added feather.
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Bangalore
mphanis@gmail.com
Comments: Namaskaaram Damodar gaaru,
Liked your work.. and the passion behind it..
Could you please include the Ragaas along with the song lyrics..
I feel it would be complete and helps immatuers like me...
Thank you.
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Gaithersburg MD USA
siruku@yahoo.com
Comments: Damodara Rao garu,
It\'s an excellent work. I have been searching for Sadasiva Brahmendra swamy keertana\'s lyrics with meaning. I got from your site.
Thank you so muuch.
Satya
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Hyderabad
potturirammohan@gmail.com
Comments: My Dear Dasu garu,
Greetings of the day.
Your work of translation is
simply superb.
Meeru cheypattina ee \\\"mission\\\" anni vidhala saphalikrutham kaavalani manasphoorthi gaa aasistu,
potturi rammohan
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UK
prasad.zurich@gmail.com
Comments: Many thanks for your work Sir. May God bless you.
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VALMIKI NAGAR,THIRUVANMIYUR, CHENNAI
sara.athma@gmail.com
Comments: congratulations and all the very best. It is a wonderful service for propogating our culture.
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San Jose, CA, USA
srihari_srpl@yahoo.com
Comments: I\'ve been thinking and wishing to see somebody come up with this kind of informative website.
I don\'t have to spend hours of my time to learn and teach proper Pronunciation and the Meaning of any song that she is learning.
A simple THANK YOU is not enough for a GREAT scholar.
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St Louis, MO, USA
anantharama_b@hotmail.com
Comments: Greetings Damodaradasu Garu,
Thank you for the quality work done in providing Lyrics with Meaning for so many Krithis by all our Great Masters of Carnatic Music.
Endaro Mahanubavalu - Andariki Vandanamulu.
Balachandran Anantharama
Sangeetha, St Louis, MO
www.sangeetha.org
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Chennai
bharatha66@gmail.com
Comments: Dear Sir/ Madam
Pl let me know from where can i get all songs of
1. Sri. Oothukadu Venkata subbair &
2. Sri. Mysore Vasudevacharya?
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INDIA
srivaru1962@yahoo.com
Comments: Superb. Informative. Classic. Excellent.
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Fair Lawn, NJ 07410
ayodhyarama@aol.com
Comments: Pl. go thru the meaning of Manasa Mana in Vardhani. You have given the meaning of the previous song Parithapamu. Also the charanam was printed wrong ( given the charanam of Parithapamu). Pl. correct these errors.
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Bangalore
gopalkannan58@yahoo.com
Comments: One of the best web portals for Karnatic Music lovers. Kudos and great appreciation to you for the sheer hard work and putting together such a magnificient site
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Bangalore
raviatri53@yahoo.co.in
Comments: Dear Sir,
I don\'t know how to express my joy after seeing your work. Without knowing the meaning of the kirthanas, I was just singing them. Today I think I can go closer to God understanding the meaning of the Kirthanas.
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Chennai SI
drvasanthashyam@gmail.com
Comments: Respect filled vanakam,
Happy to see a real time Divine work. All the lyrics where sung from athma not from mind, my deep reference to you and people with you
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C
kcuram@gmail.com
Comments: I accidentally came across this website. Extremely useful and helpful. Thanks a lot for such a great effort and contribution to the world of Indian music.
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Rajahmundry
bv_kris@yahoo.com
Comments: Dasu garu,
Thankyou for sharing invaluable treasure of lyrical compositions of great vaggeyakaras and closely conveying its bhava in english. Indeed your effort is highly commendable.
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Bangalore
nandri@dnd.com
Comments: A thousand pranaams and thanks for your contribution via this site. Suffice to stop at sincerely thanking you. God bless you.
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Kentucky
teluguMadhuram@gmail.com
Comments: I was searching for meaning of many annamayya keerthanas since couple of years, but came across your site just now. I am so greatful for your complilation that i didnt like to continue browsing without thanking you.
Regards
Kavitha
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