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E tavunara nilakada - Tyagaraja Kritis (Eng)

Pallavi

ē tāvunarā nilakaḍa nīku
yeñci jūḍanagapaḍavu1
Please tell me where is Abode for You,
because no matter how much I ponder, You would not be apprehended.

Anupallavi

sītā gauri vāgīśwarīyanu
śrī rūpamulandā2 gōvinda (ē)
O Govinda! Are You present in the embodiments of
Mahalakshmi called Sita, Gauri and Saraswati?

Charanam

bhū kamalārkānila nabhamulandā
lōka kōṭulandā3
śrīkaruḍagu tyāgarāja karārcita
śiva mādhava brahmādulayandā
Or are You present in the five elements – earth, water, fire, air and space;
or in the innumerable Worlds or living beings?
Or, O auspiciousness bestowing Lord worshipped by the very hands of Thyagaraja!
in forms of Siva, Vishnu and Brahma?

Variations

  • 1agapaḍavu - agapaḍavu ō rāma
  • 3lōka kōṭulandā – bhūta kōṭulandā

References

  • 2śrī rūpamulandā – Devi Mahatmyam – Uttara Bhagam – Pradhanika Rahasyam, verses 4 - 14 are relevant –
    • “mahAlakSmI who is the embodiment of three Gunas and also the Supreme Lord is the first cause. She encompasses everything in Her form as both perceivable and non-perceivable. (4)
    • She is of the hue of molten gold and She wears ornaments made of molten gold. She filled the whole Universe, which contained nothing, with her own light. (6)
    • She assumed a form of beautiful woman with hue like that of eye-ointment (dark) (bhinnāñjana), a beautiful face with tusks, large eyes and slender waist. (8)
    • Mahalakshmi, looking at the dark formed woman said “Your names will be mahāmāya, mahākāli, mahāmāri, kṣudha, tṛṣā, nidrā, tṛṣṇā, ēkavīra, kālarātri which is not easy to exceed by any one. (11)
    • Mahalakshmi, having said like that, assumed another form with pure Satva Guna and shining with the radiance of a moon. (13)
    • To the woman who shone with a rosary, elephant-driver’s hook (aṅkuśa), vīṇā and a book, Mahalakshmi gave names (mahāvidyā, mahāvānī, bharatī, sarasvatī etc). (14)”