Tyagaraja Kriti

Meaning - Gist
(Words of Lord hari addressed to prahlAda) –

O child of demons! O Blessed Friend of tyAgarAja!

I grant You whatever boons you seek.
I am thinking of You alone often; I am fascinated by Your wonderful devotion.
I shall lovingly grant You any amount of wealth, gold, wife/wives, children and luxurious houses. Why have any doubts? Why should You be emaciated?
Slaying the unruly demons, and remedying your calamities, I confer on You, victoriously and very famously, the titles of brahmA, indra etc.
I shall not wait even a little, without bestowing on You, with my full consent, horses, elephants, palanquins and exquisite ornaments studded with precious stones.

Word Division - Word-by-word meaning

pallavi
aDugu varamulanu-iccedanu

I grant (iccedanu) You whatever boons (varamulanu) (varamulaniccedanu) you seek (aDugu).

anupallavi
aDugu-aDuguku ninnE talacucu-unnAnu
adbhutamaina bhaktiki sokkinAnu (a)

I am thinking (talacucu unnAnu) (talcucunnAnu) of You alone (ninnE) often (aDugu aDuguku) (literally at every step) (aDugaDuguku); I am fascinated (sokkinAnu) by Your wonderful (adbhutamaina) devotion (bhaktiki);
I grant You whatever boons you seek.

caraNam
caraNam 1
dhana kanakamulu ennaina nIku
dAra putrulu sogasaina iNDla
canuvunan(o)sagudu samSayamu-Ela
tanuvu cikkganu-Ela dAnava bAla (a)

I shall lovingly (canuvunanu) grant (osagudu) (canuvunanosagudu) You (nIku) any amount of (ennaina) (literally any number of) wealth (dhana), gold (kanakamulu), wife/wives (dAra), children (putrulu) and luxurious (sogasaina) houses (iNDla); why (Ela) have any doubts (samSayamu) (samSayamEla)?
Why (Ela) should You be emaciated (tanuvu cikkaganu) (literally body become thin) (cikkaganEla), O child (bAla) of demons (dAnava)?
I grant You whatever boons you seek.

caraNam 2
akrama danujula koTTi nI
Apadalanu tala meTTi
vikramamuna bahu vikhyAtigA vidhi
Sakra-Adula paTTamulanu-osagedanu (a)

Slaying (koTTi) the unruly (akrama) demons (danujula) and remedying (tala meTTi) (literally kicking the heads) your (nI) calamities (Apadalanu),
I confer (osagedanu) on You, victoriously (vikramamuna) and very (bahu) famously (vikhyAtigA), the titles (paTTamulanu) (paTTamulanosagedanu) of brahmA (vidhi) indra (Sakra) etc. (Adula) (SakrAdula);
I grant You whatever boons you seek.

caraNam 3
vAji gaja-AndOLikamulu nIku
varamaina maNi bhUshaNamulu
rAjiganu-osagaka rava tALa lEnu vara
tyAgarAja-AptuDa nEnu (a)

I shall not (lEnu) wait (tAla) even a little (rava) without bestowing (osagaka) on You (nIku) with my full consent (rAjiganu) (rAjiganosagaka),
horses (vAji), elephants (gaja), palanquins (AndOlikamulu) (gajAndOLikamulu) and exquisite (varamaina) ornaments (bhUshaNamulu) studded with precious stones (maNi), O Blessed (vara) Friend (AptuDa) of tyAgarAja (tyAgarAjAptuDa)!
I (nEnu) grant You whatever boons you seek.

Notes

Variations - (Pathanthara)
² – aDugaDuguku – aDugaDugu. In the present context, ‘aDugaDuguku’ is the appropriate word.

⁴ – tyAgarAjAptuDa – tyAgarAjAptuDu. The kRti is addressed to prahlAda; therefore, ‘tyAgarAjAptuDa’ seems to be more appropriate.
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References

Comments
¹ - ‘iccedanu’, and ³ ‘osagadenu’ – I grant - are in present tense. This is so because whatever is willed by the Lord is accomplished. He is known as ‘satya sankalpa’.

⁴ – vara tyAgarAja AptuDa – vara – blessed – this word may be taken as qualifying prahlAda or tyAgarAja.

This kRti forms part of dance-drama ‘prahlAda bhakti vijayaM’. In this kRti, SrI tyAgarAja depicts how the Lord tests prahlAda by granting him boons. Please read the whole kRti as the wordings of Lord addressed to prahlAda.
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