entani nE
Sahityam
Pallavi
entani nE varNintunu zabari bhAgyam(entani)
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How shall I describe the blessedness of Sabari?
Anupallavi
dAntula¹ vara kAntalu jagam-
anta niNDiyuNDaga (entani)
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anta niNDiyuNDaga (entani)
While the blessed wives of ascetics abound throughout the Earth, how shall I describe the blessedness of Sabari?
Charanam
kanulAra sEviJci kammani phalamulanosagi
tanuvu pulakariJca pAda yugamulaku mrokki
ina kula pati samukhambuna punar-AvRtti² rahita pada-
munu pondina tyAgarAja nuturAli puNyambunu (entani)
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tanuvu pulakariJca pAda yugamulaku mrokki
ina kula pati samukhambuna punar-AvRtti² rahita pada-
munu pondina tyAgarAja nuturAli puNyambunu (entani)
How shall I describe the merit of Sabari – praised by this Thyagaraja who - having beheld the Lord to her heart’s (eyes’) content, having offered Him the sweetest fruits, having worshipped His Feet such that she had horripilation, attained the state of Liberation in the sacred presence of Sri Rama – the Chief of Solar Dynasty?
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Commentary
- 1 dAntula vara kAntalu – The implication is that while Sri Rama went to homes many great ascetics – Atri-Anusuya, Sarabhanga, Suteekshna, Agastya - none had the fortune of attaining liberation, whereas Sabari – an illiterate - whose supreme devotion to her guru and her firm conviction that Sri Rama would come one day, enabled her to attain liberation.
- 2 AvRtti - The cycle of repeated births and deaths.