Evari Maata
From Sahityam
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[edit] Pallavi
evari mATa vinnAvO rAvO indu lEvO 1bhaLi bhaLi Show Details | O Lord! I don’t know whose words You listened to. Won’t You come? Or ain’t You here? Well Done! |
[edit] Anupallavi
avanilOnArSEya2 3pauruSEyam- Show Detailsandi 4cOdyameruga lEnayya (evari) | In this World, having attained knowledge of Vedas and Sastras etc, I did not learn scepticism. |
[edit] Charanam
bhakta parAdhInuDanucu Show Detailsparama bhAgavatula vyakta rUpuDai palikina muccaTa yuktamanucunuNTi zakti gala mahA-dEvuDu nIvani santOSamunanuNTi satta cittuDagu tyAgarAja nuta satya sandhuDanukoNTinilalO (evari) | I assumed that the tidings of Your utterance, to Your supreme devotees, by actually manifesting before them, that You are entirely engaged in attending to (the welfare of) Your devotees, to be correct; I remained happy that You are the mighty Lord having prowess; I assumed You to be true to word who is good hearted; O Lord praised by this Thyagaraja! I don’t know whose words You listened to in this World. |
[edit] References
- 3pauruSEya – “...revealed texts - we call the same ‘apauruseya’ (not the work of a human author). What men do of their own accord is ‘pauruseya’ and what the paramatman reveals, using man as a mere instrument, is ‘apauruseya’. [Apaurusheya]
- Please visit the site for a discussion on the Kriti – [Discussion of the Kriti]
[edit] Commentary
- 1bhaLi bhaLi – Well Done – This is a sarcastic usage.
- 2ArSEya – derived from Rishis – With reference to the meaning ‘pauruSEya’ - ArSEya, would mean the same as ‘apauruSEya’ – vEdas – revealed texts – derived from Rishis – the mantra draSTA – ‘seer’ of mantras.
- 4cOdya – The term also means ‘wonderment’, ‘raising questions’ etc. Keeping in view the statements made by Sri Thyagaraja in the Charana, what he wants to convey is that he had glibly accepted Lord’s words unhesitatingly as true; but he now finds them to be not so. He wonders whether that is because of somebody’s instigation (
evari mAta vinnAvO ). The same kind of doubt is voiced by the Sri Thyagaraja in the Kriti ‘nagu mOmu gana lEni’ – rAga AbhEri also – whether the people surrounding Him are instigating Him not to have compassion on the him.
