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Meaning - Gist
O Lord rAma! O Lord who charms the mind! O Lord with eyes of cakOra in blissful excitation (drunk with moon beams)! O Lord who has jasmine like teeth! O Moon Faced! O Lord of beautiful body! O Lord praised by this tyAgarAja!

The state of mind of other women, on whom none has set eyes, is not known to others. Beholding Lord Siva, wives of Rshis of the dAruka forest, brought infamy in this World by exceeding the bounds. Therefore, there is no need to find fault with the virgins.

Word Division - Word-by-word meaning

pallavi
kanulu tAkani para kAntala manasu-eTulO rAma

O Lord rAma! Who knows (eTulO) what is the state of mind (manasu) (manaseTulO) of other (para) women (kAntala) on whom none has set (tAkani) eyes (kanulu)?

anupallavi
nana bONulapai nEramu-ana nOru-Emi rAma (kanulu)

O Lord rAma! Should one (Emi) have cheeks (nOru) (nOrEmi) to say (ana) ‘it is the fault (nEramu) (nEramana) on the part of (pai) the virgins - budding (nana) girls (bONulu) (bONulapai)’?
O Lord rAma! Who knows what is the state of mind of other women on whom none has set eyes?

caraNam 1
ghOra bhUta patini jUci dArukA-araNya satulu
mEra mIri bhuvini-apadUru kalga jEsirE (kanulu)

Isn't it that, beholding (jUci) Lord Siva – the chieftain (patini) of terrible (ghora) beings (bhUta), wives (of Rshis) (satulu) of the dAruka forest (araNya) (dArukAraNya),
brought (kalga jEsirE) infamy (apadUru) in this World (bhuvini) (bhuviniyapadUru) by exceeding (mIri) the bounds (mEra)?
O Lord rAma! Who knows what is the state of mind of other women on whom none has set eyes?

caraNam 2
mana mOhana-Ananda mada cakOra nayana kunda
radana candra vadana sundara-anga tyAgarAja vinuta (kunulu)

O Lord who charms (mOhana) the mind (mana)! O Lord with eyes (nayana) of cakOra in blissful (Ananda) (mOhanAnanda) excitation (mada) (drunk with moon beams)!
O Lord who has jasmine (kunda) like teeth (radana)! O Moon (candra) Faced (vadana)! O Lord of beautiful (sundara) body (anga) (literally limbs) (sundarAnga)! O Lord praised (vinuta) by this tyAgarAja!
O Lord rAma! Who knows what is the state of mind of other women on whom none has set eyes?

Notes

Variations - (Pathanthara)

References
¹ - ghOra bhUta pati – dArukAraNya satulu – This story refers to Lord Siva taking the form of mendicant beggar (bhikshATana) and quelling the pride of the ascetics of dArukA vana. Lord Siva and His Worship - Download.

² – cakOra – Greek partridge (perdix rufa)– fabled to subsist on moon beems; hence ‘an eye drinking the nectar of a moon-like face’ is poetically called cakOra; the eyes of cakOra turn red when they look on poisoned food – source Monier’s Sanskrit Dictionary.
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Comments
General – This kRti is found in some books only. The purport and context of this kRti are not clear.

¹ – ghOra bhUta – ghosts etc which form part of attendants of Lord Siva. As they are terrible to behold, they are called ‘ghOra’.
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