enduku nirdaya
Sahityam
Pallavi
enduku nirdaya evarunnArurA
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Why this mercilessness? Who else is there?
Anupallavi
indu nibhAnana ina kula candana (enduku)
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O Lord with face resembling the moon! O The Most Excellent of the Solar Dynasty!
Charanams Combined
parama pAvana parimaLApa¹ ghana (enduku)
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O Supremely Holy! O Lord with Fragrant limbs!
nE para dEzi bApavE gAsi (enduku)
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I have no abode; deign to relieve my distress;
uData² bhakti kani ubbatillaga lEdA (enduku)
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Did You not swell seeing the devotion of the squirrel?
zatrula mitrula samamuga jUcE nIk(enduku)
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Why this mercilessness for You who considers friends and foes with equanimity?
dharalO nIvai tyAgarAjupai (enduku)
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You being everywhere in the Earth, why this mercilessness towards this Thyagaraja?
References
- 1 parimaLa apaghana – “The body of a man who is truly an Oordhvaretas has the scent of a lotus. A man who is not a Brahmachari, in whom gross semen is formed, may, on the other hand, smell like a buck goat.” [[http://sivanandaonline.org/graphics/EBOOKS/swami_sivanandaji/introduction.html Practice of Brahmacharya E Book]]
- 2 uData bhakti – the devotion of squirrel – its contribution in building the bridge across the ocean. This episode is not found in Srimad Valmiki Ramayanam. However, it is a folklore in Tamil Nadu and it is found in the works of the great Vaishnavaite Saint Thirumazhisai Azhvar [[http://www.ramanuja.org/sv/ramayana/vn-ramayana1.html Squirrel]]