brOva bhAramA
Sahityam
Pallavi
brOva bhAramA raghurAma
bhuvanamella nIvai nannokani
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bhuvanamella nIvai nannokani
O Raghurama, is protecting me alone a burden?
When you are present in all the world.
Anupallavi
zrI vAsudEva aNDa kOTla
kukSiniyuJcukO¹ lEdA nannu (brOva)
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kukSiniyuJcukO¹ lEdA nannu (brOva)
Sri Vasudeva! Don’t you have crores of Universes
in Your stomach? Yet, is protecting me a burden to You?
Charanam
kalazAmbudhilO dayatO-
namarulakai² yadigAka
gOpikalakai koNDaletta lEdA³
karuNAkara tyAgarAjuni (brOva)
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namarulakai² yadigAka
gOpikalakai koNDaletta lEdA³
karuNAkara tyAgarAjuni (brOva)
Didn’t you, out of compassion, lift mountains
(first) in the Ocean of Milk for Devas, and again, for the sake of Gopis, O merciful one? (Yet) is protecting Tyagaraja alone a burden to you?
(first) in the Ocean of Milk for Devas, and again, for the sake of Gopis, O merciful one? (Yet) is protecting Tyagaraja alone a burden to you?
Renditions
Commentary
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1 kukSiniyuJcukO lEdA : In Srimad Bhagavatam, Book 3, Chapter 33 (Devahuti’s prayer):
“As the Supreme Personality of Godhead, You have taken birth from my abdomen. O my Lord, how is that possible for the supreme one, who has in His belly all the cosmic manifestation? The answer is that it is possible, for at the end of the millennium You lie down on a leaf of a banyan tree, and just like a small baby, You lick the toe of Your lotus foot.” (Link)
- Also refer to the episode of child Krishna showing to His mother Yasoda the whole universe in his mouth. (Srimad Bhagavatam, Book 10, Chapter 8 and Srimad Bhagavadgita – Chapter 11 – Viswaroopa Darsanam.)
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2 amarulakai : Refers to kUrmAvatAra when He bore the mandara mountain on His back to enable churning of the Milk Ocean.
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3 gOpikalakai : Refers to lifting of the Govardhana hillock to protect the gopis from the deluge of rain as a result of anger of Indra.