Transliteration Scheme

eTula brOtuvO - rAga cakravAkaM

Tamil Version
Language Version

pallavi
eTula brOtuvO 1teliya EkAnta rAm(a)yya

anupallavi
kaTa kaTa nA caritamu karNa kaThOram(a)yya (eTula)

caraNam
2paTTi goDDu rIti bhakshinci tirigiti
puTTu lObhulanu poTTakai pogaDiti
dushTulatO kUDi dush-kRtyamula salpi
raTTu jEsina tyAgarAjuni dayatO (eTula)


Meaning - Gist


Word Division - Word-by-word meaning

pallavi
eTula brOtuvO teliya EkAnta rAmayya

O My exclusive (EkAnta) Lord (ayya) rAma (rAmayya)! I do not know (teliya) how (eTula) You would protect (brOtuvO) me.


anupallavi
kaTa kaTa nA caritamu karNa kaThOramayya (eTula)

O Lord (ayya)! Alas (kaTa kaTa)! My (nA) story (or conduct) (caritamu) is very harsh (kaThOramu) (kaThOramayya) to hear (karNa) (literally to the ears);
O My exclusive Lord rAma! I do not know how You would protect me.


caraNam
paTTi goDDu rIti bhakshinci tirigiti
puTTu lObhulanu poTTakai pogaDiti
dushTulatO kUDi dush-kRtyamula salpi
raTTu jEsina tyAgarAjuni dayatO (eTula)

Like (rIti) a stray (paTTi) animal (goDDu), I wandered (tirigiti) about eating (bhakshinci) (anything and anywhere);
I extolled (pogaDiti) the born (puTTu) greedy (lObhulanu) for the sake of my stomach (poTTakai);
O My exclusive Lord rAma! I do not know how You would compassionately (dayatO) protect this tyAgarAja (tyAgarAjuni) who has scandalized (raTTu jEsina) himself by
committing (salpi) wicked deeds (dush-kRtyamulu) by associating with (kUDi) wicked people (dushTulatO).


Notes

Variations - (Pathanthara)
1teliya Ekanta – teliyadEkAnta.

2paTTi goDDu – vaTTi goDDu. In all the books, the meaning derived is ‘stray bull’. The telugu word for ‘stray animal’ is ‘cerugoNDi paSuvu’ or ‘ceruDu paSuvu’ or ‘donga goDDu’. ‘paTTi’ is a tamizh word to mean ‘stray’ – ‘paTTi mADu’ or ‘koNDi mADu’ – ‘stray animal’.

‘goDDu’ means both 'animal' and ‘barren’; ‘vaTTi’ means ‘utter’. In the present context, it should be either ‘stray animal’ or ‘barren animal’. As there is no doubt about ‘goDDu', it is possible that 'vaTTi' is not correct. Therefore, it is possible that SrI tyAgarAja has used a tamizh word ‘paTTi’ here. Accordingly, ‘paTTi goDDu’ has been adopted.

In the kRti ‘proddu poyyenu’ – rAga tODi, SrI tyAgarAja uses ‘paTTi eddu’ to mean ‘stray bullock’.
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References

Comments
1 - EkAnta - this word has many meanings - 'privacy', 'sole aim', 'single pointed', 'absolute', 'exclusive', 'non-dualistic' etc. In the present context, 'exclusive' may be suitable if looked from the angle of SrI tyAgarAja to mean ‘ishTa dEvatA’ (one’s choice form); if it is taken as an epithet of SrI rAma, then it might mean 'absolute' – meaning ‘para-brahman’.
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