Ennado Rakshinchite

From Sahityam

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[edit] Pallavi

[edit] Anupallavi

[edit] Charanams Combined

[edit] Variations

• ⁶celama – calama : celamu - is appropriate.

[edit] References

• ³aruNanu panupa – The story about aruNa becoming the charioteer of the Sun is contained in Mahabharatam – Adi Parva – Astika Parva – Section 24. For full story, please visit site – [Aruna]
• ⁵kAvEri – This story of Kaveri appears in Tamizh ‘Kanda Puranam’ written by Kacchiyappa Sivacharya’. For complete story on Kaveri, visit – [Kaveri]
• ⁷zarva lOka zaraNya – Sri Thyagraja uses the exact words as given in the Valmiki Ramayana, Yuddha Kanda, Chapter 17 –

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  nivEdayata mAM kSipraM rAghavAya mahAtmanE |
  sarvalOkazaraNyAya vibhISaNamupasthitaM || 17 ||

  • “Communicate to the high-souled Sri Rama who is capable of protecting all the worlds, the fact of myself, Vibhishana, being present.”
• ⁸nirvikAruDai – Generally this term is applied to Brahman in the sense of 'immutability'. However, here it means the non-changing character of Sri Rama in protecting those who take refuge in Him without discrimination of friend or foe. This is made clear from the statement of Sri Rama in response to the call of Viibhishana (Srimad Valmiki Ramayana, Yuddha Kanda, Chapter 18) -

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  sakRdEva prapannAya tavAsmIti ca yAcatE |
  abhayaM sarva bhUtEbhyO dadAmi Etat vrataM mama ||
  AnayainaM harizrESTha dattamasyAbhayaM mayA |
  vibhISaNO vA sugrIva yadi vA rAvaNaH svayaM || 33,34

  • “To him, who comes to me, even once, yearning for protection (from me) saying ‘I am yours’, I vouchsafe his security against all living beings; such is my vow.
  • Bring him (hither), O jewel among monkeys, be he Viibhishana or Ravana himself, O Sugriva! Security has (already) been granted in his favour by me."

[edit] Commentary

• General – Sri Thyagaraja, through the examples, asks the Lord to send a harbinger pending arrival of the grace of the Lord.
• ¹peddala svabhAvamiTluNDaga – the behaviour of elders was like this - Sri Thyagaraja cites three examples in the Charanas.
• ²rAnu cellunu – though contextually, these words mean 'it will take time for arrival', the exact meaning of the word 'cellunu' is not clear. However, according to the context, it has been translated as 'it will take time'.
• ⁵mAruta caJcalamu – During South West Monsoon, Tamil Nadu does not get much rains. However, during the month of ASADa (Adi) river Kaveri gets water consequent on rains in the Western Ghats. Even today 18th day of Adi month is celebrated as ‘Adipperukku’ in Tamil Nadu. Before the water actually reaches, the Western Wind blows and springs well up in the river bed. This phenomenon is described here as a harbinger.
• ⁶celama – People living on the bank of rivers draw drinking water not directly from the flowing water but by digging small pits in the river bed. Such pits dug for drawing water are called 'celama' (in Tamil 'UTru').
• ⁹sArvabhauma – it is not clear whether Sri Thyagaraja uses this word as an epithet of the Lord or whether as a qualifier for the word ‘laGkAdhipatyamu’ (overlordship of Lanka). In view of flow of the Kriti this has been treated in latter sense. However, if this is used as an epithet of the Lord, then it would be translated as ‘O Universal Monarch! indeed You asked the all-knower Lakshmana to confer the overlorship of Lanka on Viibhishana’.
• ¹⁰sarvajna – the epithet used for Lakshmana is significant and is in keeping with the epithet used for Sri Rama ‘nirvikAra’. Lakshmana being the manifestation of Sesha – knew the secrets of Sri Rama’s actions – therefore, the epithet ‘all-knower’.
• ¹¹immanagA – this word is to be connected to the Pallavi to complete the sense.
• ¹²sarva sannuta – The action of Sri Rama in conferring the overlordship of Lanka to Vibhishana even before the war effort commenced is reminiscent of the statement of Sri Krishna in Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 11 and therefore worthy of praise by everyone –

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  tasmAttvamuttiSTha yazO labhasva
  jitvA zatrUn bhuGkSva rAjyaM samRddhaM |
  mayaivaitE nihatAH pUrvamEva
  nimittamAtraM bhava savyasAcin || 33 ||

  • “Therefore, do thou arise and acquire fame. Conquer enemies, and enjoy the unrivalled dominion. Verily by Myself have they been already slain; be thou merely an apparent cause, O Savyasachin (Arjuna).” (Translation by Swami Swarupananda)

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