Transliteration Scheme

satta lEni - rAga nAgA nandini

Tamil Version
Language Version

pallavi
1satta lEni dinamulu vaccenA

anupallavi
2satta mAtramA sac-citta SAyi
sAkEta nilaya daiva (satta)

caraNam
kali-lOna 3prathama pAdamulO
4tali-daNDri guru bhaktiyu lEka
palumAru dush-kRtyamb(o)narpa
valenA tyAgarAja nuta daiva (satta)


Meaning - Gist
  • O Pure Existence! O Lord abiding in the pure minded people! O Resident of ayOdhyA! O Lord praised by this tyAgarAja!



  • Word Division - Word-by-word meaning

    pallavi
    satta lEni dinamulu vaccenA

    Are days (dinamulu) of absence of rule (satta lEni) here (vaccenA) (literally come)?


    anupallavi
    satta mAtramA sac-citta SAyi
    sAkEta nilaya daiva (satta)

    O Pure (mAtramA) Existence (satta)! O Lord abiding (SAyi) in the pure (sat) minded (citta) (sac-citta) people! O Resident (nilaya) of ayOdhyA (sAkEta)!
    Are days of absence of divine (daiva) rule here?


    caraNam
    kali-lOna prathama pAdamulO
    tali-daNDri guru bhaktiyu lEka
    palumAru dush-kRtyambu-onarpa
    valenA tyAgarAja nuta daiva (satta)

    In (lOna) the age of kali (kali-lOna), in the very first (prathama) quarter (pAdamulO) itself,
    should (valenA) people often (palumAru) commit (onarpa) wicked deeds (dush-kRtyambu) (dushkRtyambonarpa),
    without (lEka) devotion (bhaktiyu) towards one’s parents (tali-daNDri) and preceptor (guru)?
    O Lord praised (nuta) by this tyAgarAja! Are days of absence of divine (daiva) rule here?


    Notes

    Variations - (Pathanthara)
    4tali-daNDri – talli taNDri. As per telugu Dictionary, ‘tali-daNDri’ is correct. Accordingly, the same has been adopted.
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    References
    3 - prathama pAda – the present age is called the first quarter of kali yuga.
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    Comments
    1satta lEni - Though the word 'satta', generally means ‘goodness’, in the present context, it has been translated as ‘rule’, in keeping with connecting word ‘daiva’ (daiva satta lEni) in anupallavi and caraNam. In modern times, the word ‘sattA’ means ‘governance’.

    2satta mAtramA – here the word ‘satta’ indicates the ‘sat’ of ‘sat-cit-Ananda’.
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