vinAyakuni

Sahityam

Pallavi

Anupallavi

Charanam 1

Charanam 2

Charanam 3

Variations

• ² uNDramulai - uNDarAmulai . However, there seems to be no such word ‘uNDarAmu ’ in telugu. The nearest word is ‘uNDramu’ - ‘uNDrAyi ’ which means a ‘a ball of rice flour boiled in steam’ – a cake offered to Lord Vinayaka – in Tamizh, it is called ‘Kozhukkattai’ . Therefore, the word seems to have been corrupted. This should be ‘uNDramulai ’. Sri Thyagaraja seems to pun on the word ‘uNDramu because this dish is favourite of Lord Vinayaka whom he is referring to in the kRti.
• ³ rAyiDini – rAyaDini : rAyiDi - is the correct word.
• ⁴ Adi nAyaki – this is how it is given in all the books. However, this should be ‘adhi nAyaki ’ – ‘the presiding deity’ because Kamakshi is considered as the presiding deity of Kanchipuram. Please refer to the websites referred.
• ⁶ girAlu mUkuniki rA jEsi – girAlu mAkuniki rA jEsi . In some books it has been translated as ‘earlier You bestowed sweet words’.
• ‘mAku ’ in Telugu means ‘tree’; ‘girAlu rA jEsi ’ means ‘restoring speech’; restoring speech is possible only for a dumb and not to tree. Therefore from the wordings of the Charana it is very clear that the Mother granted speech to a dumb person and the Sanskrit and Telugu word for ‘dumb’ is ‘mUka ’ and therefore ‘mUkiniki ’ is the appropriate word here; the classical work ‘mUka paJca zAti ’ is a very famous composition in praise of Mother Kamakshi –(Translated in Tamil by Lakshmi Halasyam). Please visit the website to get more details about Mooka Kavi as explained by Kanchi Mahasvami Chandrasekharendra Sarasvati – [[http://www.kanchiforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=9116 Mooka Kavi]]
• In the Dikshitar Kriti ‘zrI kamalAmbikayA kaTAkSitOhaM’ – rAga zaGkarAbharaNa , he states ‘mUka mukhya vAkpradayaA ’ – ‘She endowed speech to the dumb’.
• In Saundarya Lahari, Sloka 98, it is stated ‘mUkAnAmapi kavitA kAraNatayA ’ – ‘because it enables even a dumb to become a poet’. Kalidasa, by birth is stated to be a dumb whose speech was restored by Kali.
• ⁷ sarOja mElina – sarOjamElaina : sarOjamElina - is the appropriate word because ‘sarOjamElaina ’ does not convey any meaning.

References

• ¹ narAdhamulakunu varAlosaga – The exact context of this statement is not known.
• ⁵ pitAmahuDu – The exact location of this episode where Brahma prays to Kamakshi to attain peaceful form is to be traced. There is an interesting article in the website which states that Brahma worshipped Kamakshi at Kanchipuram - [[http://www.bhagavadgitausa.com/KAMAKSHI.htm Worship of Brahma]]
• Another story that Adi Sankaracharya was the one who made the Mother assume Santa Svaroopa by establishing SrI Chakra – Please visit the site for more details – [[http://www.templenet.com/Tamilnadu/kamakshi.html Sri Chakra]]
• There is yet another story that Adi Sankaracharya pacified the Kali – situated near Kamakshi. [[http://home.comcast.net/~harsha_ramamurthy/ Kali-1]] and [[http://www.kamakoti.org/souv/3-10.html Kali-2]]

Commentary

• ⁸ parAzakti – “This is the general name of Mother in Lalita Sahasranamam, meaning ‘The Supreme Power’. However, ‘parA ’ is also a name of Mother – meaning ‘The transcendent Word’. This also means ‘above the other lower stages of speech known as pazyanti, madhyamA, vikharI – these three ‘pazyanti ’ (speech in the inaudible stage), ‘madhyamA ’ (speech in the middle stage of its expression) and ‘vaikharI ’ (uttered audible speech) are also other names of the mother.” (Lalita Sahasranamam – translation by Swami Tapasyananda)
• For a discourse of Kanchi Paramacharya Chandrasekharendra Saraswati on ‘parA ’ – please visit website – [[http://www.geocities.com/profvk/gohitvip/DPDS26-30.html Discourse on Para]]

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