Nambi kettavar illavo

 

By

 

Sage Purandara Dasa

 

Translated by

 

P.R. Ramachander

 

Raga Kalavaani

Tha la Mishra chapu

 

Pallavi

 

Nami kettavar illavo

Oh Rangayya  ninna

Nambade  kettare kedalli.

 

Anupallavi

 

Ambhuja nabhana Akhila lokesana,

Aprameyanada adhi purusha ninna

 

Charanam

 

Karirajna  salahi anja bedenu

Adarinchiduvathu aaro

Garuda gamana sri  Purandara vittalana

Charana kamala  vannu dridainda nammero

 

English translation

 

Pallavi

 

There are none in the world, who believed in you and lost,

Oh Ranga, if some one looses without believing in you, let them loose.

 

Anupallavi

 

Oh Lord with lotus in his belly, lord of all worlds,

Oh Lord without any change and the primeval Lord

 

Charanam

 

Who advised the king of elephants not to be afraid,

And supported and helped him?

Please believe firmly  the lotus like feet,

Of Purandara Vitala traveling on a Garuda.