Namasté, all,
A bit of background on this request: For those who are unaware, my iṣṭa-deva is Indra. Because I cannot chant Veda, this leaves me little devotional material to use; bhajans, prayers, verses, etc. to him are pretty nonexistent. I do have one text, but it's a doozy, and I'm asking for help.
About a year ago, I was fortunate to acquire part of The Collected Works of Gaṇapati Muni, offering many of Kāvyakaṇṭha's devotional works in Sanskrit, including the indrasahasranamastotram. (This book is also the source of the listed Indra sahasranāma, which I typed up and posted in a few places, including {I think?} this forum.)
Of his verses on the Devas, it is this stotram for which the Muni is best known - for not only collecting and listing those thousand names of Indra from Rig Veda, but for compiling them into a verse which is honoured as masterful and beautiful.
The company Auro Nada (through SAKSI/Auroville) once sold a compilation CD, Vishnu and Indra Sahasranama, in which this stotram was chanted. I cannot find any information about Auro Nada company, though, and even the folks in Auroville itself had never heard of or seen this disc. All I have is the first minute of it, a sound sample file which I downloaded from the website, before the website disappeared. So, I have the full text, but only a little of the 'song version.'
Would anyone be willing to take a look/listen at the first few verses/sound file, and tell me if a) the chanting/singing is any good (and therefore something to emulate or not), b) if the rest of it should be sung roughly the same way, and c) if there's any way to tell where the pitches should rise and fall? With other stotra there are recordings and guides widely available - one can learn by listening - but I am very intimidated by this plain text, and up until now have preferred to be quiet rather than sing the thing all wrong. I realise that I ask a lot. Please forgive if it is too much.
(I'm posting in the Canteen because the gist is I Need a Giant Personal Favour, Because I Am a Moron, and I don't imagine that that will really benefit the community.Please let me know if it should go elsewhere.)
Indraneela
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Oṁ Indrāya Namaḥ.
Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya.
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