Ini namakkoru

 

By

 

Koteeswara Iyer

 

Translated by

 

P.R.Ramachander

 

(This is song eulogizing saint Thyagaraja. Koteeswara iYer uses Kunjara dasa as identification)

 

Raga Bilahari

Tala Aadhi

 

Pallavi

 

Ini namakku oru kavalayum illai,

Endrum inbame maname

 

Anupallavi

 

Punitha Thyagaraja Swami nam kanavil kakshi thandhadal.

 

Charanam

 

1.Gandharva gana lola Ghana sheela Thyagaraja,

Sundarar sevai kanda nam sukrithame.

 

2.Raga kavi raja Maharajan  vagadagave  vandu kandadarul tanthathaye balan

   

3. Pavala  kunjaradasa  navalan nam Thyagraja ,

Kavalan arulum petrome, shevalan kodiyon arulal.

 

English translation

 

Pallavi

 

Oh mind, now we do not have any worries,

It is now only joy forever.

 

Anupallavi

 

This is due to  holy sage Thyagaraja appearing in our dream

 

Charanam

 

1. It is our good luck that we were able to serve the pretty,

Thyagraja, who sings like Gandharwa and is a musician by habit.

 

2.The king of poets and Raja composed songs,

And the result is he saw the grace and gave it to us.

 

3. With the grace of the God with a cock in his flag,

We got the grace of the great poet Thyagaraja says poet Kunjaradasa