pallavi
nAda tanum-aniSam Sankaram
namAmi mE manasA SirasA
anupallavi
mOdakara 1nigam(O)ttama sAma
vEda sAram vAram vAram (nAda)
caraNam
sadyOjAt(A)di 2panca vaktraja
sa-ri-ga-ma-pa-dha-ni vara 3sapta svara
vidyA lOlam 4vidaLita kAlam
5vimala hRdaya tyAgarAja pAlam (nAda)
pallavi
nAda tanum-aniSam Sankaram
namAmi mE manasA SirasA
I ever (aniSam) salute (namAmi) with my (mE) mind (manasA) and head (body) (SirasA) Lord Sankara (Sankaram) – the embodiment (tanum) (tanum-aniSam) of eternal nAda.
anupallavi
mOdakara nigama-uttama sAma
vEda sAram vAram vAram (nAda)
I repeatedly (vAram vAram) salute with my mind and head (body) Lord Sankara – embodiment of the pleasurable (mOdakara) eternal nAda which is the essence (sAram) of the sAma vEda - the best (uttama) of vEdas (nigama) (nigamOttama).
caraNam
sadyOjAta-Adi panca vaktraja
sa-ri-ga-ma-pa-dha-ni vara sapta svara
vidyA lOlam vidaLita kAlam
vimala hRdaya tyAgarAja pAlam (nAda)
I ever salute with my mind and head (body) Lord Sankara – the embodiment of eternal nAda -
the enjoyer (lOlam) of the art (vidyA) of sacred (vara) sapta svara - sa-ri-ga-ma-pa-dha-ni - born of His five (panca) faces (vaktra) (vaktraja) - sadyOjAta etc, (Adi) (sadyOjAtAdi),
the destroyer (vidaLita) of yama (kAlam) (literally time),
the pure (vimala) hearted (hRdaya) and
the protector (pAlam) of this tyAgarAja.
Notes
Variations - (Pathanthara)
References
1 – nigmOttama sAma - According to ‘karnAtaka sangIta SAstra’ by SrI AS Panchapakesa Iyer, while Rk and yajur vEda contain only three svara, sAma veda contains all the sapta svara. Therefore, from musical point of view, SrI tyAgarAja considers sAma vEda as the acme of vEda (nigamOttama).
2 – panca vaktraja - The five faces of Lord Sankara are ‘sadyOjAta’, ‘aghOra’, ‘tatpurusha’, ‘ISAna’, ‘vAmadEva’. tamizh saint tirumUlar states that Lord Sankara has one more face, ie., ‘adhOmukham’.
The Five basic sounds of mridangam - tha, dhi, thom, nam and jem, have come from the five faces of Siva--Isana, Tatpurusha, Aghora, Vamadeva and Sadyojata.
The Five tALa were said to have originated from five faces of Lord Siva: From Vama deva - Chach chatputa tala; Sadyojata - Chaa cha puta tala;Aghora - Shatpita putrika tala; Tatpurusha - Sampadveshtakaa tala; I sana - Udghatta tala.
4 - vidaLita kAlam - Refers to - story of mArkaNDEya - Siva saved mArkaNDEya from the clutches of death (yama). tirukkadavur is kshEtra where this episode is stated to have taken place.
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3 – sapta svara vidyA - this may also be taken as 'nAda vidyA' aka nAdOpAsana. For a brief on 'nAdOpAsana'
5 – vimala hRdaya – this may be applied as an epithet of tyAgarAja also.
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