Jaya Durga

jaya Durge jaya Durge jaya Durge jaya jaya
jaya Durge jaya Durge jaya Durge jaya jaya

kAlAs cha Abham
kaTakshair ari-kula bhayadAm
mauli badh-endu rekham
shaMkhaM chakraM krpaNNam
trishikhamair api
karairudhva hantiM trinetrAm

simha skandhAdi ruDhAm
tribhuvana akhilAm
tejasa purayantIM
dhyAyed durgA jayAkhyAm
tridasha parivrtAm sevitAm
siddha kAmaih

Sabso unchi prem sagaayi

Poem by the great 16th century poet saint Surdas, on the leela of Bhagavan Sri Krishna, for whom selfless love of the devotee is of much more value than all the riches in the world.
This is composed in Braj Bhasha and there are couple of words that I dont understand. Language is simple and beautiful.

सबसे ऊँची प्रेम सगाई।
दुर्योधन की मेवा त्यागी, साग विदुर घर पाई॥
जूठे फल सबरी के खाये बहुबिधि प्रेम लगाई॥
प्रेम के बस नृप सेवा कीनी आप बने हरि नाई॥
राजसुयज्ञ युधिष्ठिर कीनो तामैं जूठ उठाई॥
प्रेम के बस अर्जुन-रथ हाँक्यो भूल गए ठकुराई॥
ऐसी प्रीत बढ़ी बृन्दाबन गोपिन नाच नचाई॥
सूर क्रूर इस लायक नाहीं कहँ लगि करौं बड़ाई॥

In the Mahabharata teleseries, this was composed in a lilting, soulful song - beautiful music that touches the heart. Music composed by Ravindra Jain.
Can someone tell me the singer's name.

This is the Youtube link of the episode (Episode - 65) where it occurs, right at the beginning of the episode. See from minute 4.30 to 10.15 - this song plays.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJGT_tyE5ZQ&t=652s

My humble attempt at translation below.

sabso unchi prem sagaayi
Most exalted is the bond of love
sabso unchi prem sagaayi
Most exalted is the bond of love

duryodhan ka meva tyaage, 
Declining Duryodhana's sumptuous feast,
saag vidhur ghar khaayi
Ate the humble fare from Vidhur's stove

jhoote phal sabari ke khaaye
Lovingly Ate (as Sri Rama), the berries tasted by Shabari
bahu vidhi prem lagaayi
Filled as they were with her selfless love

prem ke bas nrpa seva kini
Due to affection, He served the king (Yudhistira)
aap bane hari naayi (naahi?)
Not (behaving) as if He has come from above (i.e. as if He were God)

rAjasuyajna Yudhistira keeno, 
At Yudhistira's Rajasuya sacrifice (when feast was served)
tAme jhoot oothayi
By picking up soiled plates, you served

prema ke bas Arjuna rath haakyo
Bound by love, you agreed to charioteer Arjuna
bhool gaye Thakkuraayi
Forgetting your Divinities

aisi preeti baDi Brindavan
Such love blossomed at Brindavana
gopin naach nachayi
with gay abandon, danced the gopees

Sur krura is laayak naahi
This hard-hearted Surdas is ineligible
kah lage karau baDhaayi
to sing Your esteemed glories

Nakshatras - 27

My teacher has said that the ancient seers studying the night sky and the various stars therein, decided to group them – because there were so many stars. So they grouped them in 27 groups i.e. they divided the sky of 360 degrees by 27 to get portions of 13 deg 20 min each. Why 27? Because the Moon takes 27.32 days to do one full revolution of the earth i.e. the sidereal revolution. So they rounded it off to 27, with 0.32 being an intercalary nakshatra called Abhijit.

Now a question arose in my mind, why choose Moon’s revolution days i.e. 27 – why Moon specifically. This kind of question can come in abstract minds like mine because we have learnt astrology from books. The ancients divined astrology from observing the sky and the nature around them.

The stars emerge in the night, when the Sun has gone down. In the night sky, the one most prominent astronomical entity is the Moon (which even as a crescent looks larger than any star). And as one watches the sky night after night, the Moon appears to be having in background different star clusters each night – its like the Moon is in a different house every night. The stars in the background to the prominent Moon seem like the shy wife in the shadow of her brilliant husband. Hence the Moon is considered husband to the stars. 

And the stars themselves are called Nakshatras. Nak means night and Kshatra means area or territory. Nakshatras are the territories of night, the mansions of Moon. Hence to group the stars the night sky is divided by 27 as they are linked to the Moon.