Renowned music composer Ilaiyaraaja was awarded the Harivarasanam Award for 2020 by the Kerala Government.
Harivarasanam:
'Harivarasanam' is a Malayalam devotional song written in eight stanzas, called 'Ashtakam'.
It was written by Kambakudi Kulathur Srinivasa Iyer, a guruswami, in 1947.
It is recited at Sabarimala (the principal Ayyappan pilgrimage site), before closing the temple door every night.
Harivarasanam Award:
Criteria: The award is given to a person for their contribution to propagate the spirit of secularism, equanimity, and universal brotherhood of Sabarimala through the songs.
Cash prize: ₹1,00,000.
Instituted by: Kerala state government and the Travancore Devaswom Board.
Instituted in: 2012.
Previous recipients of the award: KJ Yesudas (2012), KG Jayan (2013), M Jayachandran (2014), SP Balasubrahmanyam (2015), MG Sreekumar (2016), Gangai Amaran (2017) and KS Chitra (2018) and P Susheela (2019).
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