rAma nI samAnamevaru
Sahityam
Pallavi
rAma nI samAnamevaru
raghu vamzOddhAraka
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raghu vamzOddhAraka
O Lord Rama who elevated the Raghu dynasty! Who is equal to You?
Anupallavi
bhAmA maruvampu¹ molaka
bhaktiyanu paJjarapu² ciluka (rAma)
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bhaktiyanu paJjarapu² ciluka (rAma)
Your wife is tender like the shoot of sweet marjoram; she is the parrot singing in the cage of devotion to You.
Charanam
paluku palukulaku tEne-
loluku mATalADu
sOdaralu gala hari tyAgarAja
kula vibhUSa mRdu su-bhASa (rAma)
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loluku mATalADu
sOdaralu gala hari tyAgarAja
kula vibhUSa mRdu su-bhASa (rAma)
O Lord Hari, having brothers who speak such that honey drips from each word! O Adornment of the family of this Tyagaraja! O Lord who speaks soft and sweet words!
Commentary
- 1 maruvampu - maruvamu – sweet marjoram – marukkozhundu (Tamil).
- 2 paJjarapu ciluka – parrort in the cage - in some books this has been taken to mean Lord Rama. However, Anupallavi describes Sita, and Charana describes Rama’s brothers. Therefore, ‘paJjarapu ciluka ’ most likely refers to Sita and not Rama.