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mOhana rAma

mOhana     Adi     tyAgarAja     telugu     kRti    
mOhana¹ rAma mukha jita sOma
mudduga palkumA
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O Captivating Lord Rama whose face vanquishes the moon! Please speak to me charmingly.
mOhana rAma modaTi daivamA
mOhamu nIpai monasiyunnadirA (mOhana)
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O Captivating Lord Rama - the foremost God! I have been captivated by You.
dhara² manujAvatAra mahima vini
sura kinnara³ kimpuruSa⁴ vidyAdhara⁵
sura pati vidhi vibhAkara candrAdulu⁶
karagucu prEmatO
vara mRga pakSi⁷ vAnara tanuvulacE
girini⁸ velayu sItA vara cira kAlamu
guri⁹ tappaka mai maraci sEviJciri
vara tyAgarAja varadAkhila jagan(mOhana)
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Having heard Your greatness of having incarnated as a human being in the World, celestials, kinnara, kimpurusha, vidyadhara, Indra – Lord of celestials, Brahma, Sun, moon and others, melting with love, having embodied as blessed animals, birds and monkeys, O Consort of Sita shining on the Mount Prasravana or Suvela! without missing the aim, worshipped You for a long time bereft of consciousness of the body; O Bestower of boons on this blessed Thyagaraja! O Lord Sri Rama who captivates the whole Universe whose face vanquishes the moon!

  • 2 dhara manujAvatAra – This refers to Srimad Valmiki Ramayana, Bala Kanda, Chapter 17. Please visit website for complete translation of the chapter giving details the progeny of various Vanara – [[http://www.valmikiramayan.net/bala/sarga17/bala_17_prose.htm Ramayana]]

  • 7 pakSi – this may refer to Jatayu and Sampati (brothers) sons of Aruna. While Jatayu fights Ravana during abduction of Sita, it is Sampati who locates Sita and tells Hanuman about her being kept captive in Lanka.

    • But, Jatayu introduces himself to Sri Rama as ‘friend of Dasaratha’; therefore, Jatayu’s birth seems to precede Ramavatara. For complete details of creation, as retold by Jatayu, please refer to Srimad-Valmiki Ramayana, Aranya Kanda, Chapter 14.

  • 8 girini velayu – This may refer to Mount Prasravana where Sri Rama and Lakshmana stayed for rainy season after killing Vali. However, Sri Thyagaraja, in his Kriti ‘giripai nelakonna ’ again mentions ‘giri’, where another interpretation has been given in the following website - [[http://www.madhuramurali.org/mm/year2001/aug2001/ji_gp2001b.html Giri]]

    • “In ‘Skanda Puraana’ it is said that one who meditates on ‘Suvela Parvatha Rama’ (Rama on Mount Suvela) in his last days will be blessed with a place in the Vaikunta. Since the Swami was aware of this, he meditated upon this Suvela Parvatha Rama and sang this kirtan of ‘Giripai nelakonna Ramuni’”
    •         Sri Rama climbs Suvela mountain and surveys the city of Lanka from that vantage point – Valmiki Ramayana, Yuddha Kanda, Chapter 38 refers.

  • 9 guri tappaka – The words of Brahma to celestials (contained in Srimad Valmiki Ramayana, Bala Kanda, Chapter 17) are –

    • “Let mighty and guise changing helpmates be procreated to that truth abiding and valorous Vishnu who is the well-wisher of all of us.”
  • 1 mOhana – The word does not denote the physical attraction only, but the magnetism of personality.
  • 3 kinnara – demi-gods of human figure and head of horse (or with a horse’s body and head of human being).
  • 4 kimpuruSa – Class of beings allied to kinnaras – regarded as attendants of Kubera.
  • 5 vidyAdhara – artists of heaven
  • 6 candra – Srimad Valmiki Ramayana does not seem to contain any specific reference as to who is the progeny of Chandra is.
Updated on 2024-11-26
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