pallavi
amma dharmasaMvardhani(y)AdukO(v)amma mA(yamma)
anupallavi
immahini nI sari(y)evar(a)mma Sivuni komma mA(yamma)
caraNam
caraNam 1
1dhAtri dhara nAyaka priya putri madana kOTi manjuLa
gAtri aruNa 2nIraja daLa nEtri nirupama Subha
gAtri 3pITha nilayE vara hasta dhRta 4valayE parama
pavitri bhakta pAlana dhurandhari 5vIra Sakti nE namminA(namma)
pallavi
amma dharmasaMvardhani-AdukO-amma mA-(amma)
O My (mA) Mother (amma) (mAyamma) dharmasaMvardhani (name of Mother at tiruvaiyAru)! Please support me (AdukO) (dharmasaMvardhaniyAdukOvamma).
anupallavi
immahini nI sari-evaru-amma Sivuni komma mA-(amma)
O Spouse (komma) of Lord Siva (Sivuni)! Who is (evaramma) equal (sari) (sariyevaramma) to you (nI) in this world (im-mahini)?
O My (mA) Mother dharmasaMvardhani! Please support me.
caraNam
caraNam 1
dhAtri dhara nAyaka priya putri madana kOTi manjuLa
gAtri aruNa nIraja daLa nEtri nirupama Subha
gAtri pITha nilayE vara hasta dhRta valayE parama
pavitri bhakta pAlana dhurandhari vIra Sakti nE namminAnu-(amma)
O Mother (dhAtri)! O Dearest (priya) daughter (putri) of himavAn - the Lord (nAyaka) of the mountains (dhara)! O Mother who has a beautiful (manjuLa) personality (gAtri) like crore (kOTi) cupids (madana)!
O Mother who has eyes (nEtri) like the red (aruNa) (literally pre-dawn) lotus (nIraja) petal (daLa)! O Mother who has peerless (nirupama) auspicious (Subha) body (gAtri)!
O Mother resident (nilayE) in the Holy Seats (pITha)! O Mother who wears (dhRta) bracelets or bangles (valayE) in Her sacred (vara) hands (hasta)!
O Supremely (parama) sacred (pavitri) One! O Mother who bears the burden (dhurandhari) of protecting (pAlana) the devotees (bhakta)!
O Mother who is the chief (vIra) of powers (Sakti)! O Mother dharmasaMvardhani! I (nE) have placed faith (namminAnu) in You; please support me.
Notes
Variations - (Pathanthara)
2 – nIraja daLa – vArija daLa.
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References
1 – dhAtri - dhAtR – vishNu sahasranAmam (43) “Dhaataa- One who is the Substratum for the world of names and forms. And who supports all fields of experiences in all. He who is the screen for the cinema of empirical experiences’ (Visvam)”.
3 – pITha nilayE - According to SrI lalitA sahasranAmaM, the Mother has 50 seats ‘pancA-Sat-pITha rUpiNi’ (833). There is a Dikshitar Kriti also on the subject – ‘pancA-Sat-pITha rUpiNi’ – rAga dEvagAndhAra.
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These 50 Sakti pIThas (1) ; Sakti pIThas (2) are stated to be the places where the limbs of sati fell. However, as per details given in the following website, there are 51 such seats. The 50 seats are also considered to be the 50 basic sounds of our speech.
5 – vIra Sakti – It is not clear whether SrI tyAgarAja uses this epithet in its general sense or whether he specifically refers to kaula mArga of Sakti worship. There are many tantrAs which describe these. Sakti and SAkta
5 – Sakti - eight Saktis - indrANi, vaishNavi, SAntA, brahmANi, kaumAri, nArasimhi, vArAhi, mAhESvari.
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7 – kadamba gahana cAriNi – One of the names of mother tripura sundari – ‘kadamba vana vAsini’. madurai (Tamil Nadu) kshEtra is called ‘kadamba vana’ and ‘kadamba’ tree is the sthala vRksha there.
9 - Sambara ari vairi - Siva is considered as the enemy of cupid; Cupid reborn as kAmadEva is the enemy of Sambara. The story of pradyumna – also known as kAma dEva – cupid reborn to SrI kRshNa and rukmiNi – appears in SrImad bhAgavataM - Book 10 - Chapter 55.
10 – kAumAri – One of the eight Saktis referred above.
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11 – tryambakE – Please refer to SrI lalitA sahasranAmaM (477) wherein Mother is called ‘tri-lOcanI’. Lord Siva is called ‘tryambaka’. (Lord narasimha also is called ‘tryambaka’) The tryambakESvara kshEtra is located at Nasik where River Godavari originates.
12 - kAtyAyani – name of lalitA mahA tripura sundari in lalitA sahasra nAmaM (556) – meaning ‘the sumtotal of the effulgence of all the deities.’ (Refer to lalitA sahasra nAmaM (Translation by Swami Tapasyananda) –Please also refer to dEvi purANa -
“‘kaM’ means brahma, the head, and sapphire. Since the devI is the basis of these (bears these) or resides in them, She is called 'kAtyAyani'".
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4 – valayE – tamizh vaLaiyal.
6 – kambu kaNThi - having folds in the neck like a spiral shell – three lines or marks in the neck considered indicative of good fortune.
8 – taTit – This is how it is given in all the books and the meaning derived ‘lightning’. According to Sanskrit Dictionary, the correct word for ‘lightning’ is ‘taDit’; however, telugu dictionary gives ‘taTit’ as the Sanskrit word for ‘lightning’. Mother is called ‘taTillatA samaruciH’ (107) - ‘One having lustre like that of streak of lightning’.
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