Songs
Nowadays almost 100 songs are recorded as His Holiness Danzanravjaa’
s creation. Generally, his songs are preserved in the text, which is written
in Classical Mongolian Scripts and called “ The One which has 86 sourses”.
If one tries to outline his songs, we can say, there are three main types
such as long, short and lines of experience. Many of his long songs such as
“Jargaltain delger” /Prosperous happiness/, “Urikhan khongor
Salkhi” /Dearly soft wind/, “Khuvch-un undur” /The Tallest
of forest/, “Khurmast tenger” etc, are still very widespread songs
of special holidays, celebrations and festivals among Mongolian people. While
some of his shot songs such as “Tuvshin saikhan” /The perfect
Calmness/, “Ulemj-un chinar” / The Greatness of Qualities/ are
still alive and regarded to be Mongolian shot folk songs. [Mongolian folk
songs have two main type that are long and short. ]
Among all these songs “ The Excellency of Qualities” is the most
famous and well spread all over the Mongolian people. This song, which is
made of five verses, is also known as “ The Five offerings”. A
Contemporary Mongolian outstanding scholar, Dr. Khurelbaatar wrote about this
song, which reveals the perfect qualities of woman beauty through five senses,
as below:
“…The Excellency of Qualities” is a song by Danzanravjaa,
which is known as “song of five offerings”. This song is the praise
of very clear face like a mirror, melodious voice like a cuckoo sound, soft
body like a finest silk and make them as the highest symbols of offerings,
and hence this is the praise of all the perfect qualities those which one
can experience through “aDod yon- lnga” or five qualities of desire
such as form, sound, smell, taste and touch.
The Excellency of Qualities is as religious teaching on one hand, and love
melodious or praise of a beautiful woman on the other hand.
On the basis of this one might driven a conclusion that Noyon khutugt’s
songs are contextually reveal two meanings. Their explicit meaning is a day
to day life and the conventional truth whilst implicit meaning of them is
a dharma teaching and the ultimate truth. So, having obviously revealed both
deep speculations and melodious characteristics of Buddhist Literature Traditions
they have two contents such as a worldly life and dharma teaching as well
as two meanings such as a invocating and verifying…”
There is still existing a strong belief of Mongolian Gobi people that considers
singing the certain songs as the same as reciting pujas. For an instance,
people believe that singing “The Excellency of Qualities” ones
is equivalent to reciting the White Tara Puja a thousand times.
Likewise, there are written about some evidences of making pujas closer to
human life by using such songs in His Holiness Danzanravjaa’s brief
biography. Particularly, in “A Concise Life Story of the fifth Noyon
Khutugt” it says:
“…created ‘The Skyscraping Mountain of the West’ song
as a preparation for the auspicious occasion of 25th moon day’s puja
on the way and did it by this song, … etc.
“The Excellency of Qualities” is a very specific one among those
many songs by His Holiness Danzanravjaa for it coincides with the “
Eighteen marks of the beautiful woman”, which is one of the best creations
on praise of the Oriental woman’s beauty by a Tibetan lama Londol and
also Kalidasa’s well known poem called “Cloud Messanger”.
This song is also very specific because it is firmly based on Dandini’s
theory of making five qualities of desire such as form, sound, smell, taste
and touch as the ornament of words in “The Dictionary of Pleasant Melodious”.
The Excellency of Qualities
Excellency of qualities is perfected
Colors precipitated on the mirror like
Very, very beautiful face of yours
Never stops its attraction for eyes
Really, really conquer ones mind.
Gushed out from the midst of the lotus
Lovely taste of the honey ……………