Tyagaraja Kriti

Meaning - Gist

O Lord! O Lord SrI rAma - united with excellent sItA! O My Fortune!
O Lord reclining on SEsha! O Blessed Eminent One of the Solar dynasty!
O Lord of Emperors! O Moon Faced! O King of ayOdhyA! O Virtuous! O Lord whose feet are praised by this tyAgarAja! O King!

May You wake up!
Please look after us.

nArada and others, seeking You, are now singing in detail (about) Your greatness.
The day is about to dawn.

May You wake up quickly to nicely partake fresh butter and milk!

The celestial damsels are reverentially praying much to You to (permit them to) render service to You.
The excellent lamps lit by aNimA and other (siddhis) – adorned with ornaments studded with gems - are fading.

May You wake up.

Indra and all others are waiting to worship You.

May You wake up in order to govern this Universe!

Please look after us.

Word Division - Word-by-word meaning

pallavi
mElukO-ayya mammu-ElukO rAma
mElaina sItA samEta nA bhAgyamA

O Lord (ayya)! May You wake up (mElukO) (mElukOvayya)! Please look after (ElukO) us (mammu) (mammElukO), O Lord rAma - united (samEta) with excellent (mElaina) sItA! O My (nA) Fortune (bhAgyamA)!

caraNam
caraNam 1
nArads-Adulu ninnu kOri nI mahimalu-
avvArigA pADucu-unnAru-ipuDu
tellavAragA vaccinadi SrI rAma navanIta
kshIramulu bAgugAnu-Aragimpanu vEga (mElukO)

nArada and others (Adulu) (nAradAdulu), seeking (kOri) You (ninnu), are (unnAru) now (ipuDu) singing (pADucu) (pADucunnAripuDu) in detail (avvArigA) (about) Your (nI) greatness (mahimalu) (mahimalavvArigA);
O Lord SrI rAma! The day is about to (vaccinadi) dawn (tellavAragA); O Lord! May You wake up quickly (vEga) to nicely (bAgugAnu) partake (Aragimpanu) (bAgugAnAragimpanu) fresh butter (navanIta) and milk (kshIramulu)!
Please look after us, O Lord rAma - united with excellent sItA! O My Fortune!

caraNam 2
phaNi Sayana animisha ramaNulu-UDigamu sEya
aNukuvaga niNDAru praNuti jEsedaru
maNi-maya-AbharaNulai aNimA-Adulu-iDu dIpa
maNulu telupu-Ayenu taraNi vaMSa vara tilaka (mElukO)

O Lord reclining (Sayana) on SEsha – the serpent (phaNi)! The celestial (animisha) (literally un-winking) damsels (ramaNulu) are reverentially (aNukuvaga) praying (praNuti jEsedaru) much (niNDAru) to You to (permit them to) render (sEya) service (UDigamu) (ramaNulUDigamu) to You;
The excellent (maNulu) lamps (dIpa) lit (iDu) by aNimA and other (siddhis) (Adulu) (aNimAduliDu) – adorned with ornaments (AbharaNulai) studded with gems (maNi-maya) (maNi-mayAbharaNulai) - are fading (telupu Ayenu) (telupAyenu) (literally becoming white);
O Blessed (vara) Eminent One (tilaka) of the Solar (taraNi) dynasty (vaMSa)!
O Lord! May You wake up! Please look after us, O Lord rAma - united with excellent sItA! O My Fortune!

caraNam 3
rAja rAjA-ISvara bha-rAja mukha sAkEta
rAja sad-guNa tyAgarAja nuta caraNa
rAjanya vibudha gaNa rAja-Adulu-ella ninu
pUjimpa kAcinAru-I jagamu pAlimpa (mElukO)

O Lord (ISvara) of Emperors (rAja rAja) (rAjESvara)! O Moon – Lord (rAja) of asterisms (bha) (bha-rAja) - Faced (mukha)! O King (rAja) of ayOdhyA (sAkEta)! O Virtuous (sad-guNa)! O Lord whose feet (caraNa) are praised (nuta) by this tyAgarAja!
O King (rAjanya) (literally belonging to Royalty)! Indra - Lord (rAja) of celestials (vibudha gaNa) and all (ella) others (Adulu) (rAjAdulella) are waiting (kAcinAru) to worship (pUjimpa) You (ninu);
O Lord! May You wake up in order to govern (pAlimpa) this (I) (kAcinArI) Universe (jagamu)! Please look after us, O Lord rAma - united with excellent sItA! O My Fortune!

Notes

Variations - (Pathanthara)
¹ – bAguganAragimpanu – bAguganAragimpanu.

² - maNi-mayAbharaNulai – maNi-mayAbharaNulau.
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References
³ - aNimAdulu – the Eight siddhis – aNiman – become minute as atom; laghiman – extreme lightness; prApti – reach anything (moon with the tip of finger); prAkAmya – irresistible will; mahiman – illimitable bulk; ISitA – supreme dominion; vaSitA – subjugating by magic; kAmAvaSAyitA – suppressing all desires. Source – Monier’s Sanskrit Dictionary.

aNiman, laghiman, prApti, prakAmya, mahiman, ISitA and vaSitA and garimA – making oneself heavy at will – Source tamizh pingala nigaNDu.

To know more about the eight siddhis, refer to Kundalini Yoga by Swami Sivananda
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Comments
⁴ – telupAyenu – fading – against the dawn, the lamps have lost their glow.

⁵ – vibudha – this also means 'very learned’.
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