rAma daivamA
Sahityam
Pallavi
rAma daivamA rAka¹ rAka lObhamA
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O Lord Rama! Are You gradually becoming stingy?
Anupallavi
mOmu jUpumA jagan-mOhana-karamA (rAma)
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O Lord who has mesmerised the universe! Deign to show Your face.
Charanam
doGga jADalEla illu baGgArAyenA \t
raGgaDA² vibhISaNuniki paGga³ nAmamiDina rIti (rAma)
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raGgaDA² vibhISaNuniki paGga³ nAmamiDina rIti (rAma)
Why these stealthy signals? Has Your house become golden? O Lord Rama! Are You gradually becoming stingy in the same manner as Lord Ranganatha deceived that Vibhishana?
venna tA bhujiJci gOpa⁴ kanya mukhamuna
tinnaganalandinaTTu dIna rakSakA sItA (rAma)
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tinnaganalandinaTTu dIna rakSakA sItA (rAma)
O Protector of the humble! O Lord Sita Rama! Are You gradually becoming stingy in the same manner as You, having consumed butter, smeared it (butter) nicely on the faces of maindens of cow-herds?
nErpu jUpumA aGgalArpu bApumA
Orpu galgu tyAgarAju oka pAri zaraNaNTE (rAma)
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Orpu galgu tyAgarAju oka pAri zaraNaNTE (rAma)
Deign to display Your skills; please relieve my distress; while this patient Thyagaraja has sought Your refuge once and for all, O Lord Rama! are You gradually becoming stingy?
Renditions
Variations
- 1 rAka rAka lObhamA – in all the books this has been translated as ‘are You (of late) gradually becoming stingy?’. However, the proper word for ‘gradually’ is ‘rAnu rAnu ’.
- 4 gOpa kanya – gOpi kanya
References
- 2 raGgaDu – Please refer to Sthala Purana of Sri Rangam [[http://www.ramanuja.org/sv/temples/srirangam/ Sri Rangam]]
Commentary
- 3 paGga nAmamu – this is a colloquial expression to indicate ‘deception’; literally it means ‘the mark applied by Vaishnavaites on their forehead’.