Ms subbulakshmi - Dudukugala - Gowla - Tyagaraja

duDuku gala-gauLa

In this panca ratna kRti ‘duDuku gala’ – rAga gauLa (tALa Adi), SrI tyAgarAja does self-denigration (Atma garhaNa).

pallavi
1duDuku gala nann(2E) dora
koDuku brOcurA entO (duDuku)

anupallavi
kaDu dur-vishay(A)kRshTuDai
gaDiya gaDiyaku niNDAru (duDuku)

svara-sAhitya 1
SrI vanitA hRt-kumud(A)bja
avAG-mAnasa gOcara (duDuku)

svara-sAhitya 2
sakala bhUtamula(y)andu nIvai-
(y)uNDaga mati lEka pOyina (duDuku)

svara-sAhitya 3
ciruta prAyamu nADE bhajan(A)mRta
rasa vihIna ku-tarkuD(ai)na (duDuku)

svara-sAhitya 4
para dhanamula koraku(n)orula 3madi
karaga paliki kaDupu nimpa tirigin(a)TTi (duDuku)

svara-sAhitya 5
tana madini bhuvini saukhyapu jIvanamE-
(y)anucu sadA dinamulu gaDipE (duDuku)

svara-sAhitya 6
teliyani naTa-viTa 4kshudrulu vanitalu
sva-vaSam(au)Tak(u)padESinci
santasilli svara layambul(e)rungakanu
5Sil(A)tmulai su-bhaktulaku samAnam(a)nu (duDuku)

svara-sAhitya 7
dRshTiki sArambagu lalanA sadan-
(A)rbhaka sEn(A)mita dhan(A)dulanu
6dEva dEva nera nammitini gAkanu
pad(A)bja bhajanambu maracina (duDuku)

svara-sAhitya 8
cakkani mukha kamalambunu sadA
nA madilO smraNa lEkanE dur-
mad(A)ndha janula kOri paritApa-
mulacE tagili nogili dur-vishaya
dur-Asalanu rOya lEka satatam-
(a)parAdhinai capala cittuD(ai)na (duDuku)

svara-sAhitya 9
mAnava tanu dur-labham(a)nucun(e)nci
param(A)nandam(o)nda lEka
mada matsara kAma lObha 7mOhulaku
dAsuDai mOsa pOti gAka
modaTi kulajuD(a)gucu bhuvini
SUdrula panulu salpucunu(y)uNTini gAka
nar(A)dhamulanu kOri sAra hIna
matamulanu sAdhimpa tArumAru (duDuku)

svara-sAhitya 10
satulakai konnALL(A)stikai
sutulakai konnALLu dhana
tatulakai tirigitin(a)yya
tyAgarAj(A)pta iTuvaNTi (duDuku)

Gist

O Moon who blossoms the heart-lotus of lakshmI! O Lord who is beyond the reach of words and mind!

O Lord of celestials!

O Benefactor of this tyAgarAja!

Which (other) Lord’s son will protect me who has so much wickedness?

Lured by very evil-some sense-objects, I am replete with wickedness at all times.

While You exist in and as all Great Elements (space, air, fire, water, earth) (or all living beings), I did not realise Your omni-presence.

Right from young age, I became a sophist, bereft of nectarine essence of bhajana.

I roamed about, speaking pleasingly to others for their wealth, for filling the stomach.

I always spend time considering in my mind that, in this world, comfortable livelihood alone is everything.

Instead of learning svara and laya, I exulted by preaching others in luring unknown petty dancing girls and women; consequently,

though I became stone-hearted, I boasted myself to be equal to Your true devotees.

I forgot to chant glory of Your lotus feet, and instead, totally believed beautiful looking wife, dwellings, an army of children and huge wealth etc.

Instead of constant remembrance of Your charming Face-Lotus in my mind, I besought people blinded by evil-some arrogance; consequently,

I was caught in a pitiable state and therefore, grieving.

Not abhorring evil-some sense objects and evil desires, I ever became an offender and fickle minded.

Instead of considering human body to be hard to get, and attaining Supreme bliss (utilising it), I was ruined by becoming a slave of arrogance, envy, desire, miserliness and obsession (or delusion).

Though born as a brAhmaNa, I remained performing the tasks of lowly people.

I besought lowliest of humans and substantiated substance-less opinions somhow.

I wandered some time for wife and some time for inheritance, children, wealth and society (of friends and relatives) (Or wealthy relatives).



Therefore, which other Lord’s son will protect me who has such wickedness?