E tAvuna nErcitivO
Sahityam
Pallavi
E tAvuna nErcitivO rAma endukinta gAsi
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O Lord Sri Rama! Where did You learn (this drama)? Why this much trouble?
Anupallavi
sItA lakSmaNa bharata ripughna
vAtAtmajulatOnADu¹ nATakam(E tAvuna)
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vAtAtmajulatOnADu¹ nATakam(E tAvuna)
Where did You learn the drama You are enacting together with Sita, Lakshmana, Bharata, Satrughna and Anjaneya – son of Vayu? Why this much of trouble?
Charanam
Alu vajrAla sommulaDigirO
anujulu tali²-daNDrulannamaDigirO
zIlulaina vara bhaktulu³ pilicirO cira
kAlamu tyAgarAja nuta nIv(E tAvuna)
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anujulu tali²-daNDrulannamaDigirO
zIlulaina vara bhaktulu³ pilicirO cira
kAlamu tyAgarAja nuta nIv(E tAvuna)
Did Your wife ask for diamond jewellery? or \tdid (younger) brothers and parents ask for food? or did the blessed pious devotees call You? O Lord praised by this Thyagaraja! Where did You learn this drama for a long time?
Renditions
Variations
- 1 vAtAtmajulatOnADu – vAtAjamajulatOnADE
- 2 tali daNDrulu – talli taNDrulu
Commentary
- 3
bhaktulu pilicirO
– In the Kriti ‘evarikai avatAramettitivo’ – rAga dEvamanOhari
, Sri Thyagaraja, implicitly, praises Ravana for having called the Lord to come to the Earth. Therefore, the implication of this Kriti, is this -
- ‘Have You come to the Earth to procure jewellery for Your wife or food for Your brothers, mothers and father; or have You come because devotees called You? No, You came here to protect the virtuous people from the wicked. As You are not carrying out Your own charter – in that You have failed to protect me, it seems to me that You are enacting a drama.’
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It is also possible that the last question ‘have You come because pious devotees called You?’ may itself be the answer to the question raised in Anupallavi.