Tyagaraja Kriti

Meaning - Gist
Behold!

brahmA -

the brave One, abiding in lotus,
whose hands stretch as far as His knees and
who is well-praised by indra,

holding his staff and carrying kamaNDalu,
meditating on Lord vishNu in his pure heart,
extolling the Lord,
always ejoying the essence of name of Lord hari,
is proceeding today to the shore of the ocean to have darSan of

kOdaNDa pANi,
Lord hari - the Lotus Eyed, praised by this tyAgarAja.

Word Division - Word-by-word meaning

pallavi
kamala bhavuDu veDale kanugonarE

Behold (kanugonarE)! brahmA – abiding (bhavuDu) in Lotus (kamala) – is proceeding (veDale).

anupallavi
vimala hRdayamuna vishNuni talacucu (kamala)

Behold! brahmA is proceeding, meditating (talacucu), on Lord vishNu (vishNuni) in his pure (vimala) heart (hRdayamuna).

caraNam
caraNam 1
daNDamu paTTi kamaNDalamu pUni
koNDADucunu kOdaNDa pANini jUDa (kamala)

Behold! brahmA, holding (paTTi) his staff (daNDamu) and carrying (pUni) kamaNDalu (kamaNDalamunu), is extolling (koNDADucunu) and proceeding to have darSan (jUDa) of Lord SrI rAma - wielder (pANini) the bow kOdaNDa.

caraNam 2
sAreku hari nAma sAramu krOlucu
dhIruDu nIradhi tIramunaku nEDu (kamala)

Behold! brahmA – the brave (dhIruDu) One – always (sArEku) ejoying (krOlucu) the essence (sAramu) of name (nAma) of Lord hari, is proceeding today (nEDu) to the shore (tIramunaku) of the ocean (nIradhi).

caraNam 3
AjAnu-bAhuDu amara-indra vinutuDu
rAjIva-akshuni tyAgarAja nutuni jUDa (kamala)

Behold! brahmA – whose hands (bAhuDu) stretch as far as His knees (AjAnu) and who is well-praised (vinutuDu) by indra – Lord (indra) of celestials (amara) (amarEndra) - is proceeding to have darSan (jUDa) of Lord hari - the Lotus (rAjiva) Eyed (akshuni) (rAjIvAkshuni) praised (nutuni) by this tyAgarAja.

Notes

Variations - (Pathanthara)

References

Comments
¹ - AjAnu bAhuDu – amarEndra vinutuDu – In the books, these two epithets seem to have been attributed to Lord hari. The next two epithets – ‘rAjIvAkshuni’ and ‘tyAgarAja nutuni’, referring to Lord hari - have suffix ‘ni’ (Him). On the other hand, the earlier two have suffix ‘Du’ (He) which gives them subject - object relationship between these two sets of epithets. Accordingly, the first two refer to brahmA and not to Lord hari.

This kRti forms part of dance-drama ‘prahlAda bhakti vijayaM’. In this kRti, zrI tyAgarAja depicts how brahmA left for the sea-shore to witness the conversation between Lord hari and prahlAda.
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