Girirajasuta tanaya
From Sahityam
[edit] Lyrics
[edit] Pallavi
girirAjasutA tanaya sadaya Show Details | O son of the Mountain King's daughter! O compassionate one! |
[edit] Anupallavi
suranAtha mukhArcita pAdayuga Show DetailsparipAlaya mAmibharAjamukha | One whose (pair of) feet are worshipped by Indra, Do protect me, O elephant-headed one! |
[edit] Charanam
gaNanAtha parAtpara zaGkarA- Show Detailsgama vArinidhi rajanIkara phaNirAja kaGkaNa vighnanivAraNa zAmbhava zrI tyAgarAjanuta | O lord of Ganas, Greater than the greatest! Bestower of happiness1! O moon for the ocean of Veda2, You with the snake waist-band, Preventer of obstacles, Son of Sambhu, One praised by Tyagaraja! |
[edit] Commentary
- Except for paripAlaya mAm (in Anupallavi), the song is composed only of vocatives (sambOdhanas).
- 1 Here zaGkara refers not to Siva, but is used literally — zam karOti iti zaGkaraH (One who makes happiness is "Sankara").
- This is akin to the use of the term "viSNu" in the zlOka "zuklAmbaradharam...."
- 2 The compound Agama-vArinidhi-rajanIkara, literally Veda-Ocean-Moon, is a reference to the moon swelling the ocean during high-tide. Vinayaka is the moon for the ocean of Vedic knowledge.
- A similar metaphor is also present in the Kadanakutuhalam kriti Raghuvamsa sudhambudhi as raghuvaMza-sudhAmbudhi-candra.
[edit] Renditions
- Madurai Somasundaram (Sangeethapriya.org)
