Tyagaraja Kriti

Meaning - Gist

O Lord SrI raghuvara, the Unfathomable Lord!
O Lord SrI rAma – the Moon born in the Ocean of the blessed raghu dynasty!
O Bee hovering over the Lotus of the Solar dynasty! O Enjoyer of music!
O Lord of the Solar dynasty! O Lord praised by sage nArada who ever enjoys mUrchana arising from svara and laya (OR who ever enjoys svara, laya and mUrcana etc)!
O Lamp shining on the mountain of the blessed Solar dynasty! O Lord whose holy feet are praised by the blessed devotees!
O Consort of sItA! O Lord praised by this tyagarAja! O Benefactor of AnjanEya! O Lord who is adorned with virtues!

Please protect me.
Please nourish me.

Word Division - Word-by-word meaning

pallavi
SrI raghuvara-apramEya mAm-ava

O Lord SrI raghuvara, the Unfathomable Lord (apramEya) (raghuvarApramEya)! Please protect (ava) me (mAM) (mAmava).

anupallavi
SrI raghu kula jala nidhi sOma
SrI rAma pAlaya (SrI)

O Lord SrI rAma – the Moon (sOma) born in the Ocean (jala nidhi) of the blessed (SrI) raghu dynasty (kula)! Please nourish (pAlaya) me;
O Lord SrI raghuvara, the Unfathomable Lord! Please protect me.

caraNam
caraNam 1
sArasa hita kula-abja bhRnga
sangIta lOla (SrI)

O Bee (bhRnga) hovering over the Lotus (abja) of the Solar – friend (hita) of Lotus (sArasa) – dynasty (kula) (kulAbja)! O Enjoyer (lOla) of music (sangIta)!
O Lord SrI raghuvara, the Unfathomable Lord! Please protect me.

caraNam 2
virOcana kula-ISvara svara laya-Adi
mUrchana-ullasita nArada vinuta (SrI)

O Lord (ISvara) of the Solar (virOcana) dynasty (kula) (kulESvara)! O Lord praised (vinuta) by sage nArada who ever enjoys (ullasita) mUrchana (mUrchanOllasita) arising from (Adi) svara and laya (layAdi) (OR who ever enjoys svara, laya and mUrcana etc)!
O Lord SrI raghuvara, the Unfathomable Lord! Please protect me.

caraNam 3
SrI bhAskara kula-adri dIpa
SrI bhAgavata vinuta su-caraNa (SrI)

O Lamp (dIpa) shining on the mountain (adri) of the blessed (SrI) Solar (bhAskara) dynasty (kula) (kulAdri)! O Lord whose holy feet (su-caraNa) are praised (vinuta) by the blessed (SrI) devotees (bhAgavata)!
O Lord SrI raghuvara, the Unfathomable Lord! Please protect me.

caraNam 4
sItA nAtha tyAgarAja
nuta-anila suta-Apta suguNa-AbharaNa (SrI)

O Consort (nAtha) of sItA! O Lord praised (nuta) by this tyagarAja! O Benefactor (Apta) of AnjanEya – son (suta) (sutApta) of vAyu (anila) (nutAnila)! O Lord who is adorned (AbharaNa) with virtues (suguNa) (suguNAbharaNa)!
O Lord SrI raghuvara, the Unfathomable Lord! Please protect me.

Notes

Variations - (Pathanthara)

References
¹ - mUrchana – definition of the term -

"a gamaka that involves using the proper shaking required in the raaga that is being performed"

The dictionary meaning is 'cadence', ‘modulation’, 'melody’, ‘the regulated rise or fall of sounds through the grAma of the musical scales’. According to ‘karnAtaka sangIta Sastra’ by SrI AS Panchapakesa Iyer - there are three types of grAma (svara clusters) – shadjasvara, madhyamasvara, gAndhArasvara – the last being used only for chanting sAma vEda.

“The scales that emerge when each successive note of the scale is made the tonic note and a new set of notes defined from that point. The word is deriving from the root moorcha, meaning unconsciousness. The change of the shhadja in emphasising a note gives the mind an opportunity to take another pathway, which changes the feel of the first Raga that was being performed. This new pathway ends in a new Raga, with redefined relationships among the notes. When Ragas are derived from Moorchanas, the technique is called Moorchana Paddhati .”

‘Theory of Murchanas and Murchana Computation’
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