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• ¹teliya Ekanta – teliyadEkAnta
• ³vaTTi goDDu - paTTi goDDu - In all the books, the meaning taken is ‘stray’ (stray bull). The Telugu word for ‘stray animal’ is ‘cerugoNDi pazuvu’ - ‘ceruDu pazuvu’ - ‘doGga goDDu’. ‘paTTi’ is Tamizh word to mean ‘stray’ – ‘paTTi mADu’ - ‘koNDi mADu’ – ‘stray animal’.
  • ‘goDDu’ means both 'animal' and ‘barren’; ‘vaTTi’ means ‘utter’. If 'goDDu' is taken to mean 'animal', then 'vaTTi' may not be correct. However, if 'goDDu' is taken to mean 'barren', then 'vaTTi' may be correct. It is not certain whether Sri Thyagaraja has used a Tamil word here. Therefore, assuming he has not used a Tamil word, 'vaTTi' has been taken as correct and accordingly translated. However, as the (traditional) meaning taken in all the books is ‘stray’, it is possible that Sri Thyagaraja has used tamizh word ‘paTTi’. In view of the ensuing word 'tirigiti' (wandered), it is possible that 'paTTi' (stray) is the correct word.

[edit] Commentary

• ² EkAnta - this word has many meanings - 'privacy', 'sole aim', 'single pointed', 'unflinching', 'exclusive', 'non-dualistic' etc. In the present context, 'sole aim' may be suitable if looked from the angle of Sri Thyagaraja; if it is taken as an epithet of Sri Rama, then it might mean 'non-dualistic', but this may not be correct because Sri Thyagaraja always considered Lord Sri Rama to be beyond 'bhEda' - 'abhEda'.

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