dharmAtma

dharmAtma nannipuDu daya jUDavEyana
marmamuna palukunadi maJcidO
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O Virtuous Lord! While I beseech You ‘show mercy on me now’, is it good for You to talk secretively?
patita pAvanuDani bAga pErai nIku
mati¹ lEkayuNDunadi maJcidO (dharma)
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While having a great fame as redeemer of the fallen, is it good for You to remain without understanding?
gati lEni nanu nIvu kAvavEyaNTi
sammati lEkayuNDunadi maJcidO (dharma)
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I entreated You ‘protect me who has no refuge’; is it good for You to be not in agreement with that?
ninu² jUDa padi vEla kanulu kAvalenaNTi
manupakayuNDunadi maJcidO (dharma)
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I said ‘one needs ten thousand eyes in order to behold You’; is it good for You to remain careless?
Emi³ nEranu pAdamE migula gatiyaNTi
nA mIda nepameJcuTa maJcidO (dharma )
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I said ‘I know nothing; Your holy feet alone are my refuge’; is it good for You to count (or consider) my faults?
nIdu mAyala cEta niSThUramEla
mammAdukOkanuyuNDa maJcidO (dharma)
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Why this harshness because of Your grand illusion (OR) why this cruelty by Your deceptions? is it good for You to remain without supporting me?
nATi vacanamulella nayamu sEyavEyaNTi
mATADakuNDunadi⁴ maJcidO (dharma)
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I besought ‘please fulfil all Your promises made earlier’; is it good for You to remain without even talking to me?
rAja nuta zrI tyAgarAja rakSaka zrita
samAja nanu maracunadi⁵ maJcidO rAma (dharma)
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O Lord Rama praised by Kings! O Protector of this Thyagaraja! O Lord found in the assembly of dependents! O Lord Rama! is it good for You to forget me?
  • General – ‘rAma ’ appears at the end of pallavi and all caraNas in some books.
  • 3 Emi nEranu – Emi nEramu
  • 4 mATADakuNDunadi – mATalADakuNDunadi
  • 5 maracunadi – maracinadi
  • 2 ninu jUDa padi vEla kanulu kAvale – Please refer to Kriti ‘veGkaTeza ninu sEvimpa’ rAga madhyamAvati wherein Sri Thyagaraja states ‘veGkaTEza ninu sEvimpanu padi vEla kannulu kAvalenayya ’.
  • 1 mati lEka uNDunadi – remaining without understanding – this may be taken as a ‘nindA ’.