baNTu rIti koluviyavaiya
Sahityam
Pallavi
baNTu rIti koluviyavaiya rAma
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O Lord Rama! Give me the privilege of being in Your service as a servitor.
Anupallavi
tuNTa viNTi vAni¹ modalaina
madAdula² koTTi³ nEla kUla jEyu nija (baNTu)
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madAdula² koTTi³ nEla kUla jEyu nija (baNTu)
O Lord Rama! Give me the privilege of being in Your service as a true servitor – who will make, the six internal enemies (desire, conceit etc.), bite dust by thrashing them.
Charanam
rOmAJcamanu⁴ ghana kaJcukamu
rAma bhaktuDanu⁴ mudra biLLayu
rAma nAmamanu⁴ vara khaDgamivi
rAjillunayya tyAgarAjunikE (baNTu)
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rAma bhaktuDanu⁴ mudra biLLayu
rAma nAmamanu⁴ vara khaDgamivi
rAjillunayya tyAgarAjunikE (baNTu)
O Lord Rama! give the privilege of being in Your service as a servitor to this ThyagarAja on whose person shines these – (a) a strong armour called horripilation, (b) a royal badge called ‘devotee of Sri Rama’, and (c) the divine sword called the ’name of Rama’.
Renditions
Variations
- 3 koTTi – paTTi : koTTi - seems to be appropriate.
- 4 ‘rOmaJcamanu’, ‘rAma bhaktuDanu’ ‘rAma nAmamanu’ - rOmaJcamanE’, ‘rAma bhaktuDanE’ ‘rAma nAmamanE ’
Commentary
- 1 tuNTa viNTi vAni modalaina – As per telugu dictionary, ‘tuNTa vilukAdu ’ refers to Kama - cupid. Therefore, ‘tuNTa vinTivAni modalaina ’ should be taken to mean ‘desire – originating from Kama’ Accordingly the Anupallavi would read ‘kAma, madAdula koTTi nEla kUla jEyu nija ’.
- 2 madAdula - kAma, krOdha, lObha, mOha, mada, mAtsarya – desire, anger, greed, obsession, conceit, jealousy.