mAkElarA vicAramu
Sahityam
Pallavi
mAkElarA vicAramu
maru-kanna zrI rAmacandra
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maru-kanna zrI rAmacandra
Why should we worry?
Sri Ramachandra, Father of Cupid!
Anupallavi
sAkEta rAjakumAra
sadbhakta mandAra zrI-kara
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sadbhakta mandAra zrI-kara
O Prince of Ayodhya!
O Wish-tree of true devotees! O bestower of fortune!
Charanam
jata kUrci¹ nATaka² sUtramunu³
jagamella meccaga karamunaniDi
gati tappaka ADiJcedavu sumI
nata tyAgarAja girIza vinuta
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jagamella meccaga karamunaniDi
gati tappaka ADiJcedavu sumI
nata tyAgarAja girIza vinuta
Having set up the drama, holding in your hands the strings (of the puppets),
you make us all dance without missing even a single beat,
to the appreciation of the whole universe! Aha!
One saluted by Thyagaraja and praised by Siva!
Commentary
- 1 jata kUrci – This has been translated as ‘set up’; however, this may also meaning ‘pairing’ - dvandva. Everything in the Universe is in pairs starting from zruti-laya, male-female, pairs of opposites etc. In Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita, Chapter 10, verse 33, Sri Krishna says that He is ‘dvandva: sAmAsikasya ’ – ‘I am the dvandva of all the compounds’.
- 2 nATaka – this word is common for both ‘jata kUrci ” and ‘sUtramunu ’
- 3 sUtramunu - One of the names of the Lord is sUtradhAri – meaning holder of strings of puppets; it also means ‘director of the drama’.
Renditions
MS Gopalakrishnan and Narmada - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQK7QQd9HnI