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December 13_RJ

I first chanced upon this group's music at The Music Academy, Chennai in a November Fest few years ago, that too during a break in another concert. The snippet i heard completely swept me off my feet, with the Bose Audio system and the academy's impressive acoustics only adding to the experience.

Thus i got introduced to the group called Indian Ocean and today, we see a song called Kandisa, which also happens to be the name of an album.

Kandisa is an ancient prayer in Aramaic. The literal translation of this word may be Holy/ Holy Praise / Divine Praise. This prayer is chanted even to this day in the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church and the Syriac Orthodox Church.

Here is the prayer and it's translation (source wikipedia).

Kandisa Alahaye, Kandisa Esana
kandisa Alahaye, Kandisa Esana
aalam Balam Aalam, Aamenu Aamen
sliha Mar Yose, Almaduba Kudisa
aangen Dhanusa, Nehave Dukharana

Holy One, Holy Absolute One
Invocation (3),
Truly, Truly, Truly (So be it)
I, at your Holy altar,
humbly I submit , may that be forever in memory

aalam Balam Aalam, Aamenu Aamen
sliha Mar Yose, Almaduba Kudisa
aangen Dhanusa, Nehave Dukharana
kandisa Alaha, Kandisa Esana, Kandisa La Ma Yosa Isaraha Malem

Truly, Truly, Truly (So be it)
I, at your Holy altar,
humbly I submit , may that be forever in memory
Holy One, Holy Absolute One
Holy immortal , please be with me.

The last two lines are the ancient Christian Trisagion (thrice holy) prayer, which is part of all Orthodox and Eastern Catholic church services and forms the summit of the Roman Catholic Good Friday service. Indian Ocean's rendering is in East Syrian whereas the West Syrian pronunciation is: Qadisha Alaha, Qadisha Ħilthana, Qadisha La mayotha, 'Ithraħim 'aleyn.

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