Ethaavuna Nerchitivo
From Sahityam
[edit] Lyrics
[edit] Pallavi
E tAvuna nErcitivO rAma endukinta gAsi Show Details | O Lord Sri Rama! Where did You learn (this drama)? Why this much trouble? |
[edit] Anupallavi
sItA lakSmaNa bharata ripughna Show Details1vAtAtmajulatOnADu nATakam(E tAvuna) | Where did You learn the drama You are enacting together with Sita, Lakshmana, Bharata, Satrughna and Anjaneya – son of Vayu? Why this much of trouble? |
[edit] Charanam
Alu vajrAla sommulaDigirO Show Detailsanujulu 2tali-daNDrulannamaDigirO zIlulaina vara 3bhaktulu pilicirO cira kAlamu tyAgarAja nuta nIv(E tAvuna) | Did Your wife ask for diamond jewellery? or did (younger) brothers and parents ask for food? or did the blessed pious devotees call You? O Lord praised by this Thyagaraja! Where did You learn this drama for a long time? |
[edit] Variations
- 1vAtAtmajulatOnADu – vAtAjamajulatOnADE
- 2tali daNDrulu – talli taNDrulu
[edit] Commentary
- 3bhaktulu pilicirO – In the Kriti ‘evarikai avatAramettitivo’ – rAga dEvamanOhari, Sri Thyagaraja, implicitly, praises Ravana for having called the Lord to come to the Earth. Therefore, the implication of this Kriti, is this -
- ‘Have You come to the Earth to procure jewellery for Your wife or food for Your brothers, mothers and father; or have You come because devotees called You? No, You came here to protect the virtuous people from the wicked. As You are not carrying out Your own charter – in that You have failed to protect me, it seems to me that You are enacting a drama.’
- It is also possible that the last question ‘have You come because pious devotees called You?’ may itself be the answer to the question raised in Anupallavi.
[edit] Renditions
Categories: Yadukula Kambhoji | Adi | Tyagaraja | Telugu | Kriti
