Amma nimma manegalalli

 

By

 

Sage Purandara dasa

 

Translated by

 

P.R.Ramachander

 

Raga Sourashtra

Thala Aadhi

 

Pallavi

 

Amma nimma manegallalli,

Namma  rangana  kanderenamma?

 

Anupallavi

 

Brahma muruti namma Krishnana

Nimma kaeriyali kandirenamma?

 

Charanam

 

1.Kasi pitambara kaiyalli kolalu poosida,

Sri Gandha maiy olagmma

Lesagi thulasiya  maleya darisida

Vasudevanu  banda kandirene.

 

2.Karadalli kanakana beralalli  ungura.

Koralalli  hakida huilyuguramma

Aralale kanaka  kundala  kaalanduge

Uraga shayana  banda kandirene.

 

 3. Kumkuma kasthuri  kari nama  tiddi

Shanka  chakaragala  darsihanamma,

Binakadindali  kolal udhootha, padutha ,

Pankajakshananu kandirene.

 

4.Mavana maduhitha shakatana kedahitha

Govardhana giri ethidhanamma

Ava taayige  irelu jaga torida,

Kaamanayya banda kandirene.

 

5.Kalali kiru gejje nilada  bavuli

Neelavarnanu  natyavadutalli,

Melagi bayalli jagavannu  torida,

MoorlokadoDeyana  kandirene.

 

6.Hadhinaru  savira  gopiyara koodi,

Chaturanga   pagadeyannaduvanamma

Madana mohana  rupa  edeyalli Kousthubha

Madhusoodana  banda , kandirene

 

7.Tettesa koti  devarugala  odagudi,

 Hattavataaravanettitta danamma

Sathyabhama Priya Purandara  Vittala,

Nithyothsava bandaa kandirene

 

 

English translation

 

Pallavi

 

Mother, did you happen to see,

Our Ranga in your homes?

 

Anupallavi

 

Did you see in your street,

Krishna who is Brahma himself

 

Charanam

 

1.Wearing the yellow silk of Benares,

Holding the flute in his hands,

Applying sandal all over his body,

Wearing garland of Thulasi in his neck,

Vasudeva had come there. Have you seen him?

 

2.Wearing bangles on his hand,

Rings in his fingers, Wearing a,

Necklace with tiger’s nail on his neck,

Wearing golden ear studs and anklets,

He who sleeps on serpent has come here , Have you seen him?

 

3. Wearing a Namam of musk and saffron ,

Holding conch , mace and holy wheel in his hands,

And singing and playing in his flute,

The lotus eyed one has come here. Have you seen him?

 

4. The slayer of uncle, the killer of Shakatasura

He carried the Govardhana mountain,

And showed the universe to his mother,

This father of Manmatha has come here. Have you seen him?

 

5. Wearing small anklets with bells and sapphire ear rings

Being of the blue colour and the one  who dances,

He showed all the worlds in his mouth,

And this God of thirty crores has come here. Have you seen him?

 

6.He plays dice on the chess board,

With sixteen thousand Gopis ,

And he is as pretty as the God of love,

And  this  killer of Madhu  who wears Kousthubha

Has come here . Have you seen him?

 

7. Surrounded by thirty three crores of Devas,

He  took ten incarnations in this world,

And he is the Purandara Vittala who loves SathyaBhama,

And he has come like a daily festival here. Have you seen him?