20 naTabhairavi janya
Aa: S G2 M1 P N2 S
Av: S N2 D1 P M1 G2 R2 S

taaLam: aadi
Composer: Paapanaasam Shivan
Language: Tamil

pallavi

kandA vandaruL tharalAhAdA gadhivEREdu (kandA)

anupallavi

sendUr vaLar guHA aDimaiyin
sindA kulam tIra nI vaLiya
vandAl undan maHimai kuRaiyumO
vaLLi maNavALA puLLi mayil ERum (kandA)

caraNam

pacciLaNG kuzhaviyaip peRRa tAy
parindaNaippadu kadananRO
parama dayAkaran enRu pEr puhazh
paDaittavan nee anRO
saccidAnanda mURti-SaravaNOt-
bava guHanE Sankaran mahanE
dayavuDanE tirumAl marugA manam
irangi unadaDimai enniDam parindu (kandA)

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Lyrics contributed by Sweta Parker.

Song performed for karnATik by Sweta Parker.

The change that Abheri has gone through in the past two or three centuries is fairly widely known and documented. i.e how some popular vidwan sang it with a D2 instead of D1 and unfortunately it became permanently changed. However this song is still sung with D1, as composed originally by Papanasam Shivan. The same change also needs to be done for vInAbheri that is also sung always with D1 . In both the cases, the rAgam is still Abheri but it is the old/ original Abheri with a D1. For all the other songs in Abheri rAgam, the D2 is still probably correct because that is what they are sung in, in line with current times. For nagumOmu, it is a moot point because almost everybody sings it with D2 but there are a few like Vedavalli who sing it with D1. I believe that the claim there is that Tyagaraja also composed it with a D1. - from Cuddalore S. Kumar