SABDAMS
The Dhananjayans composed special sabdams like Raama Sabdam, Shanmuga Sabdam and Ganesha Sabdam.

Shanmuga Sabdam
Based on a poem by Shemmanarkoil Shanmugam originally tuned to folk music, it was retuned by Madurai T Sethuraman on classical lines and titled as Shanmuga or Muruga Sabdam. Dhananjayan choreographed it especially for Sumathi, their first student at Bharata Kalanjali and she performed it at her arangetram. The good vibes generated by this item prompted the poet to contribute more lyrics, which were incorporated.

�One evening, I was struggling to compose a piece on Shanmuga, I wanted something different in the composition. Suddenly, there was a cyclonic burst of thunder, wind and rain and I terminated the class. Then, as I came down the stairs, I saw a picture of Lord Shanmuga with 6 faces, come loose from an old calendar and fall on the lower step. I almost stepped on it. I was suddenly overcome by inspiration and keeping the picture in front of me, I completed the composition in about half an hour. Even today I feel the sanctity of the item when my students perform it.�

Ganesha Sabdam
It captures the charm of the elephant headed God, in ragamalika, set to misra chapu talam. Text and music composed by Rajasekharan in the language of Manipravalam (a mixture of Samskritam and Malayalam) with the help of Dhananjayan.

�I once took my children to the park. When my son Sanjay saw the baby elephant waving its trunk at him, he asked me to compose a dance in honor of the baby elephant. In spite of a tiring day, as soon as I came back home, I was inspired to write a beautiful poem on Ganesha in Manipravalam, which I set to music and called it Ganesha Sabdam. By a strange coincidence, that very night we were invited to perform the following week for Vinayaka Chathurthi. Ganesha Sabdam was thus first performed at the altar of Ganesha.�