pallavi
nAyeDa vancana sEyakurA O 1rAghava
nalugurikai namma lEdurA SrI rAma candra
anupallavi
mAyapu mAnavulanu jEri matsaruDai tirigitinA
dAyAdula pOraina kAni dAsuDanai vEdukonna (nA)
caraNam
vAdADucu bAluru(y)eccaTi vADavu nilurA buddhi
lEdA(y)ana tALimi galavArai tali-daNDrulu jUci
mOdamutO tanayul(a)nucunu muddu peTTi kaugili kUrca
lEdA(y)aTu nE kAdA brOvavE tyAgarAja sannuta (nA)
pallavi
nAyeDa vancana sEyakurA O rAghava
nalugurikai namma lEdurA SrI rAma candra
O Lord rAghava! Please do not deceive (vancana sEyakurA) me (nAyeDa) (literally towards me);
O SrI rAma candra! I did not (lEdurA) trust (namma) You for ostentation (nalugurikai) (literally for the sake of four persons).
anupallavi
mAyapu mAnavulanu jEri matsaruDai tirigitinA
dAyAdula pOraina kAni dAsuDanai vEdukonna (nA)
Did I ever remain (tirigitinA) (literally roam) an envious person (matsaruDai) by associating (jEri) myself with deluded (mAyapu) people (mAnavulanu)?
O Lord rAghava! Please do not deceive me – who has besought (vEDukonna) You as Your devotee (dAsuDanai) in spite of (kAni) struggle (pOraina) with my cousins (dAyAdula);
O SrI rAma candra! I did not trust You for ostentation.
caraNam
vAdADucu bAluru-eccaTi vADavu nilurA buddhi
lEdA-ana tALimi galavArai tali-daNDrulu jUci
mOdamutO tanayulu-anucunu muddu peTTi kaugili kUrca
lEdA-aTu nE kAdA brOvavE tyAgarAja sannuta (nA)
Though children (bAluru), while arguing (vAdADucu) with one another, may insult (ana) (literally say) (one another), ‘whence (eccaTi) (bAluruyeccaTi) are You (vADavu)? stop (nilurA); have you no (lEdA) (lEdAyana) sense (buddhi)?’ etc,
don’t (lEdA) the parents (tali-daNDrulu) forbearingly (tALimi galavArai), looking (jUci) at them affectionately (mOdamutO) as (anucunu) their own children (tanayulu) (tanayulanucu), kiss (muddu peTTi) and cuddle (kaugili kUrca) them?
am I (nE) also not (kAdA) like (aTu) (lEdAyaTu) that to You? O Lord praised (sannuta) by this tyAgarAja! Please protect (brOvavE) me;
O Lord rAghava! please do not be deceive me. O SrI rama candra! I did not trust You for ostentation.
Notes
Variations - (Pathanthara)
1 – rAghava – rAma.
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By reading together anupallavi (where SrI tyAgarAja mentions about the struggle with his cousins – dAyAdula pOraina) and caraNa (where he mentions about arguing children – vAdADucu bAluru), it seems SrI tyAgarAja is asking the Lord not to take note of skirmishes between cousins, but to treat all as His own children (tanayulani muddu peTTi kaugili kUrca lEdA – aTu nEnu kAdA) and to protect him.
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