Ma Janaki

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[edit] Lyrics

[edit] Pallavi

mA jAnaki 1cETTa paTTaga
maharAjavaitivi
Show Details		You became very famous because you married our Mother Janaki!

[edit] Anupallavi

2rAja rAja vara rAjIvAkSa vinu
rAvaNAriyani rAjillu kIrtiyu (mA)
Show Details		O Most excellent of Emperors! O Lotus Eyed! Listen; the great fame as vanquisher) of Ravana also is because you married our Mother Janaki.

[edit] Charanam

kAnakEgi Ajna mIraka
mAyAkAramunici zikhi centanEyuNDi
dAnavuni veNTanE cani azOka
taru mUlanuNDi
vAni mATalaku kOpagiJci kaNTa
3vadhiyiJcakanEyuNDi
zrI nAyaka yazamu nIkE kalga
jEya lEdA tyAgarAja paripAla (mA)
Show Details		(a) Having come along with you to the forest, (b) donning shadow form without disobeying your command, having remained with Fire-God (in Her true form), (c) having gone (as shadow) along with Ravana – the demon, (d) having remained at Lanka under the Asoka tree, (e) having not reduced him (Ravana) to ashes by her eyes by not getting enraged by his words, O spouse of Lakshmi! O nourisher of this Thyagaraja! did She not bring great fame to you alone?

[edit] Variations

[edit] References

  • 1ceTTa paTTu – Take hand in marriage. This is known as ‘pANi grahaNa’. For details - [Marriage]
  • 3vadhiyiJcakanEyuNDi - At Lanka, Sita was kept captive under an Asoka tree. There, when Ravana threatened Sita that she would be forcibly taken to the gynaeceum as his queen, Sita was indeed enraged and uttered the following words (as per Valmiki Ramayana – Sundara Kanda, Chapter 22, verse 20) –
  • “Though I am capable of reducing you to ashes by my own power, I do not do so because I do not have the mandate of Sri Rama and also because I want to preserve the power of my asceticism.”

[edit] Commentary

  • 2rAjA rAja vara rAjIvAkSa – the word ‘vara’ can be attached to either of the two epithets – ‘rAja rAja>/lipi>’ or ‘lrAjIvAkSa’.

[edit] Renditions

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