enduku nirdaya - Tyagaraja Kritis (Eng)

Pallavi

enduku nirdaya evarunnārurā enduku nirdaya evaru-unnārurā

Why this mercilessness? Who else is there?

Anupallavi

indu nibhānana ina kula candana (enduku) indu nibha-ānana ina kula candana (enduku)

O Lord with face resembling the moon! O The Most Excellent of the Solar Dynasty!

Charanams Combined

1. parama pāvana 1parimaḷāpa ghana (enduku) 2. nē para dēśi bāpavē gāsi (enduku) 3. 2uḍata bhakti kani ubbatillaga lēdā (enduku) 4. śatrula mitrula samamuga jūcē nīk(enduku) 5. dharalō nīvai tyāgarājupai (enduku) 1. parama pāvana parimaḷa-apa-ghana (enduku) 2. nē para-dēśi bāpavē gāsi (enduku) 3. uḍata bhakti kani ubbatillaga lēdā (enduku) 4. śatrula mitrula samamuga jūcē nīku-(enduku) 5. dharalō nīvai (why this mercilessness) tyāgarājupai (enduku)

1. O Supremely Holy! O Lord with Fragrant limbs! 2. I have no abode; deign to relieve my distress; 3. Did You not swell seeing the devotion of the squirrel? 4. Why this mercilessness for You who considers friends and foes with equanimity? 5. You being everywhere in the Earth, why this mercilessness towards this Thyagaraja?

References

• ¹parimaḷa apaghana – “The body of a man who is truly an Oordhvaretas has the scent of a lotus. A man who is not a Brahmachari, in whom gross semen is formed, may, on the other hand, smell like a buck goat.” [Practice of Brahmacharya E Book]
• ²uḍata bhakti – the devotion of squirrel – its contribution in building the bridge across the ocean. This episode is not found in Srimad Valmiki Ramayanam. However, it is a folklore in Tamil Nadu and it is found in the works of the great Vaishnavaite Saint Thirumazhisai Azhvar