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mA jAnaki

kAmbhOji     Adi     tyAgarAja     telugu     kRti    
mA jAnaki cETTa¹ paTTaga
maharAjavaitivi\t
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You became very famous because you married our Mother Janaki!
rAja² rAja vara rAjIvAkSa vinu
rAvaNAriyani rAjillu kIrtiyu (mA)
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O Most excellent of Emperors! O Lotus Eyed! Listen; the great fame as vanquisher) of Ravana also is because you married our Mother Janaki.
kAnakEgi Ajna mIraka
mAyAkAramunici zikhi centanEyuNDi
dAnavuni veNTanE cani azOka
taru mUlanuNDi
vAni mATalaku kOpagiJci kaNTa
vadhiyiJcakanEyuNDi³
zrI nAyaka yazamu nIkE kalga
jEya lEdA tyAgarAja paripAla (mA)
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(a) Having come along with you to the forest, (b) donning shadow form without disobeying your command, having remained with Fire-God (in Her true form), (c) having gone (as shadow) along with Ravana – the demon, (d) having remained at Lanka under the Asoka tree, (e) having not reduced him (Ravana) to ashes by her eyes by not getting enraged by his words, O spouse of Lakshmi! O nourisher of this Thyagaraja! did She not bring great fame to you alone?
  • 1 ceTTa paTTu – Take hand in marriage. This is known as ‘pANi grahaNa ’. For details - [[http://www.keralaiyers.com/iyer_wdng5.html Marriage]]
  • 3 vadhiyiJcakanEyuNDi - At Lanka, Sita was kept captive under an Asoka tree. There, when Ravana threatened Sita that she would be forcibly taken to the gynaeceum as his queen, Sita was indeed enraged and uttered the following words (as per Valmiki Ramayana – Sundara Kanda, Chapter 22, verse 20) –
  • “Though I am capable of reducing you to ashes by my own power, I do not do so because I do not have the mandate of Sri Rama and also because I want to preserve the power of my asceticism.”
  • 2 rAjA rAja vara rAjIvAkSa – the word ‘vara’ can be attached to either of the two epithets – rAja rAja or lrAjIvAkSa .
Updated on 2024-11-26
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