D-SONGS

 D-SONGS

Dachuko= 

Dandamu 

Darini telusu =

Darsanamu seya 

Dasarathanandana =

DasarathI nirunamu =

Daya Juchutakidi 

Dayaleni bradukem:i =

Daya rani =

seyavayya 

Dehi tava pada =

Devadideva Sadasiva 

Deva Sritapastirtha= 

Devi Sri Tulasamma =

Dharanu ni sari =

Dharmatma =

Dhyaname =

Dinamanivamsa= 

Dorakuna =

Dudukugala= 

Durmargachara =

Dvaitamu sukhama =

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DACHUKO VALENA" (Todi) 

368

Why should you withhold your mercy from me, and 

treat me lightly in the presence of those around me 

even after Sit& had spoken to you about me at the propitious 

time of your fondling her with kisses, even after Bharata had 

spoken to you highly of my devotion while he was lovingly 

laying his head at your feet and you were compassionately 

treating him, and even after Lakshmana mentioned about 

me while serving you with austerities and praising you 

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DARIDAPULEKA " (55080) 

I do not know why I could not get your grace when Í 

pray to you helplessly. 

Probably you will show mercy to and protect one, if he 

had wealth at his command. In the past, you protected 

Prince Prahlada, though he was the son of your inveterate 

enemy. But when I have clung to your holy feet with true 

devotion, did it ever occur to you to bless me with a boon ? 

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DARINI TELUSUKONTI” (Suddha SAvéri) 

104

Oh Merciful Goddess! Sister of my Sri Rama! I have 

now known the way to salvation and have sought refuge in 

youalone. [have learnt the path by following which Brahma, 

Indra and other Gods and devotees have reached the ocean 

of eternal bliss and swam in it, and I have found in you the 

protector of the distressed and the fulfiller of the desires of 

those who have faith in you 

You are the mother that confers inestimable prosperity 

and wealth, that protects devotees, destroying the wilder- 

ness of their past karma. I have now understood how great 

sages of the world, by the glory of your grace, have freed 

themselves from the bondage of worldiness and attained 

eternal bliss. 

That I have been privileged to witness the Friday 

worship of yours is due to my past lives’ merits. 

I have learnt why great men consider that your japam 

alone throughout one's life is the way to salvation. 

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DASARATHI NI RUNAMU (1691)

Oh Rama! Is it possible for me to repay my debt to you?

To my heart's content you have made my glory shine in far- 

off countries. 

Realizing that secular poets, devoid of devotion, are 

unable to grasp the important and real significance of your 

Swartipa, you have come down to the world and blessed 

ThyAgarAja, with the inspiration and the capacity to compose 

divine songs that confer temporal and spiritual attainments. 

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DAYALÉNI BRADUKEMI" (Nayaki) 

Oh Rama! Without your grace, of what use is life, 

whether it be for one hundred years or whether it is spent 

in ruling a kingdom? If I have it, I will be blessed with 

your loving presence at the time of my püja and japam, 

enlightening on the real secret of life and vouchsafing 

mental peace to me. 

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DAYA RANI DAYA RANI" (Mohana)

Let your grace flow to me. The bliss which I enjoy

will be beyond description. When I think of you, my whole

body becomes thrilled. When I have your darsan, tears of

joy roll down from my eyes. When I embrace your feet, I

forget my body. When you are by my side, worries abandon

me. When the desire for you comes up in me, the whole

universe looks a trifle as a blade of grass. You alone are

the friend of Tyagaraja.

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DHARANU NI SARIDAIVAMU" (Varali)

I have not found in this Universe a God like you: Oh 

Raghuvara! Do you hesitate still to be my prop? Pray, 

protect me and show me your grace: Your blessed feet are 

the sole object of my meditation and your mercy is my 

wealth and eternal bliss.  ..

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DEHI TAVA PADA” (Sahina) 

Oh! Vidéhi, Redeemer of the fallen! Pray, vouchsafe 

to me constant devotion to your blessed feet. Oh! the 

giver of temporal and spiritual benefits and the mother of 

Brahma and Manmathal Oh! Devi born of the ocean : 

adorned with golden jewels, delighted by the musical 

chanting of Agastya; Oh! the consort of Sri Rama! The 

whole Universe is your form. Your hair is beautifully black 

as the bee. You are the queen of the protector of (Viswa- 

mitra’s) yàga; you are the cause of my fortune; you 

protect those that take refuge in you. You are the destro- 

yer of the arrogance of the hundred-headed Ravana. You 

have beautiful, red lotus eyes and dwell in the heart of 

Tyagaraja.

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DASARATHA NANDANA" (Asávéri) 

Oh Dasaratha Nandana! Protect me, with your grace 

enough of this trickery. With my heart drawn to women, 1 

go about freely preaching your path: I try to propitiate the 

rich to maintain my body in comfort. I cast wistful eyes on 

women and indulge in back.biting. 

l am a forlorn creature; pray, come near me, redeem 

me and sanctify me: 

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DHARANU NI SARIDAIVAMU" (Varali) 

I have not found in this Universe a God like you: Oh 

Raghuvara! Do you hesitate still to be my prop? Pray, 

protect me and show me your grace: Your blessed feet are the sole object of my meditation and your mercy is my wealth and eternal bliss.

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DHARMATMA“" (Kedara Gowla) 

While I am appealing to you as a DharmAtma, is it right 

for you to reply dubiously ? 

Having earned the reputation of being the redeemer of 

the fallen, is it good on your part not to duly realise its 

implication ? 

When I seek your protection as a forlorn one, is it proper for you to ba unfavourably disposed ?

When I am eagerly desiring to have ten thousand eyes 

to see and enjoy your glorious form, is it right on your part 

that you should mortify me by denying it? I am guileless 

and have sought refuge in your blessed feet; 18 it fair that 

you should find fault with me ? 

Why vex me with your trickery ? Is it fair that you 

should not come to my succour ? 

I appealed to you to make good your past promises ; is 

it proper that you should keep silent ? Is it fair that you 

should forget me ? 

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DINAMANI VAMSA " (Harikàmbóji) 

Oh refuge of the meek ! Pray, give your best conside» 

ration to my appeal and protect me with affection. That 

will do and will also be appropriate. Why this pride in the 

matter of protecting me ? Who else is there to do it? You 

are everything to Tyágarája. 

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DHYANAME VARAMAINA" (Dhany&si) 

The Rama Dhyana (meditation of Sri Rama) is itself the 

most efficacious Gang4-Sn&nam, (bath in the holy Ganges). 

Any number of plunges in the waters will not remove 

the stain of deceit and treachery: 

The Dhyànam should be made with a mind that loathes 

the coveting of others’ wealth and women, and is not prone 

to injure others by word or deed and whole-heartedly longs 

for Sri Rama. 

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DORAKUNA" (Bilahari) 

Will it ever be possible for even Brahmans and gods 

who have only alittle Tapas to their credit, to have the 

blessed privilege of such a Darsana as that of Hari being 

rocked on Adisesha as his bed with Tumburu and Narada 

singing the glory of his gunas, with Ambarisha and others 

chanting his holy name and strewing jasmine flowers, with 

beautiful celestial damsels dancing, with Brahma and Indra 

standing on either side and proclaiming the divine glory 

and with celestial women fanning with the jingling of their 

ornaments, a darsana as that of the repository of all beauty 

with his emarald-like body clad in shining golden garments, 

with the colour of his foot-nails outshining the rays of the 

moon; with brilliant anklets, with dazzling diamond rings 

on his fingers, with pearl-garlands on his chest, with face 

radiant with glowing ear-ornaments and charming smile, 

curly forelocks, glossy cheeks, and with lovely tilaka on the 

forehead, a darsana as that of Sri Rama seated on the golden 

swing with Sità, the fulfiller of devotees’ desires, trans- 

ported to ecstacy at the sight of the Lord, with great Rishis 

standing bewildered unable even to praise his glories and 

with Tyàgaràja; son of Rama Brahmam, singing before Him, 

while the swing is moving. 

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DUDURUGALA" (Gowla) 

330

Oh Lord who transcends speech and mind! Which 

prince but you will protect one like me who is so 

inded that he is drawn every moment by powerful 

evils; that he has lost the realisation that You are imme- 

nent in every being; who, from his early days, has been 

indulging in vain disputation without enjoying the ambrosia 

of your divine Bhajana; coveting others’ wealth, has 

gathered money 107 sustenance by moving the hearts of 

people by ilattery; has spent all the days believing that a 

comfortable living is the only aim of life (taking living itself 

is happiness); has posed as a good Bhakta, though stone- 

hearted and ignorant of the elements oí music, and has 

pleased oneseli by delivering sermons to women and 

ignorant and low folk; taking good-looking women, houses, 

children and wealth as permanent assets to 93 coveted, has 

wilfully ignored the worship of your holy feet ? 

I have remained ever a criminal with an unsteady mind 

without the constant thought in mind of your beautiful lotus- 

face, have sought the. company of men of evil infatuation, 

have been caught up in difficulties, and am unable to repel 

sense-pleasures and iow desires, and have becomea sinner 

and one of unsteady mind. 

Without realising that a human birth is hard to get and — 

without attaining supreme bliss withits aid, I have become a 

slave to haughtiness, jealousy, lust, avarice and delusion 

and have got deceived; baing one of foremost birth in this 

‘world, have resorted io the service of the low born and 

eking inferior people have perversely tried to establish 

worthless faiths; have wandered in this world for women and 

Wealth for some time, and for the children at other times. 

Which Prince but you wil! protect such a sinner ? 

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DVAITAMU SUKHAMA” (Ritigowla) 

Which conduces to bliss, Dvaita or Advaita? Pray, 

instruct me Clear my doubt. You have, in this Universe 

of Pancha Bhiitas, vouched happiness to gods like Siva 

Brahma, Indra, etc. and to great devote....es. 

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DURMARGACHARA ? (Ranjeni)

oh lord! Dharmfitma! While I strongly believe that

you are my material prosperity and wealth and my very

Godi I can never bring myself to Hatter wicked people and

those who dedicate their literary works to depraved per?

sons, O bestower of riches I 

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