lyrics for unnai kANa Ayiram kann vEndum - arulavan

[smala]

searingly beautiful song accompanied by Nadaswaram on magnificent muragan - please post thanks.

[Lakshman]

kANa Ayiram. rAgA: karnATakadEvagAndhAri. Adi tALA. Composer: AruLavan.

P: kANa Ayiram kaN vENDum (unaik) muruganaik-kANa kaNNAyiram vENDum
vElanaik-kANa kandanaik-kANa kumaranaik-kANa kaNNAyiram vENDum
A: ulagaLanda vallavanai vaNNa mayil vAhananai gaNapati sOdaranai tandai svAmi Anavanaik-kANa kaNNAyiram vENDum sharavaNaik-
C: shen kadirum muzhu matiyum sErndamainda sundaranai
viNNaghamum maNNaghamum parttu nirkkum aruLavanai
muruganaik-kANa SaNmukhanaik-kANa vElanaik-kANa
shivabAlanaik-kANa Arumukhanaik-kANa kandanaik-kANa
guhanaik-kANa kaDambanaik-kANa guruparanaik-kANa
kArtikEyanaik-kANa mayil vAhananaik-kANa pazhani vElanaik-

[smala]

Sri Lakshman-ji - thanks for the beautiful composition.

[rshankar]

A beautiful composition indeed! Along the lines of Papnasam Sri Sivan's immortal (kapAliyin bhavaniyai) kANa kaNNAyiram vENDum....

pallavi
kANa Ayiram kaN vENDum (unaik) muruganaik-kANa kaNNAyiram vENDum
vElanaik-kANa kandanaik-kANa kumaranaik-kANa kaNNAyiram vENDum

One needs/requires (vENDum) a thousand (Ayiram) eyes (kaN) to behold/visualize/see you (unai), Oh handsome one (murugA) [1]...

anupallavi
ulagaLanda vallavanai vaNNa mayil vAhananai gaNapati sOdaranai tandai svAmi Anavanaik-kANa kaNNAyiram vENDum sharavaNaik-(kANa Ayiram...)

(One needs/requires a thousand eyes to behold/visualize/see you) oh lord who has a colorful (vaNNa) peacock (mayil) for a mount (vAhananai), is a skilled/competent one (vallavan) who took the measure (aLanda) the world (ulagu) [2], is the brother (sOdaranai) of gaNESa (gaNapati), and the one who became (Anavanai) his father's (tandai) preceptor (svAmi) [3]...

caraNam
shen kadirum muzhu madiyum sErndamainda sundaranai
viNNagamum maNNagamum pArttu nirkkum aruLavanai
muruganaik-kANa SaNmukhanaik-kANa vElanaik-kANa
shivabAlanaik-kANa Arumukhanaik-kANa kandanaik-kANa
guhanaik-kANa kaDambanaik-kANa guruparanaik-kANa
kArtikEyanaik-kANa mayil vAhananaik-kANa pazhani vElanaik-(kANa Ayiram...)

(One needs/requires a thousand eyes to behold/visualize/see you) Oh handsome one (sundaranai) in whom the beauty of the red (Sen) sun (kadirum) and the full (muzhu) moon (madiyum) have come together as one (SErndamainda); the personification of grace (aruLavanai) [4] that both the heavens (viNNagamum) and the mortals on this earth (maNagamum) gaze upon (pArttu nikkum) in wonder…

FOOTNOTES
[1] The various names of muruga have a meaning that symbolizes a different aspect of him – here are the names used in this composition: murugan (handsome one); vElan (the spear wielder); kandan* (one who has conquered his senses); kumaran (the ever youthful one); SaravaNabhavan/SaravaNan (one who was created/came into being in a thicket of Sara grass); shaNmukh(g)an/Arumug(kh)an (the six-faced one); SivabAlan (son of Siva); guhan (one who exists in the dark cavern of our ignorant souls); kaDamban (one who wears a garland of kadamba flowers); guruparan (the exemplary/supreme preceptor); kArtikEyan (one who was adopted by the 6 kRtikA maidens – kArtkai strIgaL); mayil vAhanan (one who has a peacock for a vehicle/mount)
[2] Refers to the incident over the mango, and muruga's circumambulation of the universe on his mighty peacock
[3] Refers to the legend of svAmimalai where murugA, sitting on his father's lap whispers the essence of the praNava (the primordial sound, Om) into his father's ears
[4] The composer's mudra as well

*: If one takes kanda to be a tamizhised version of skanda, then the meaning may change – As I understand it, skanda refers to the fact that muruga came into being through a couple of spills (skanda) – first, the spill of Siva's seed from his third eye into the hands of agni; and the next was when agni, finding the seed too hot to hold, spills it into the gangA to cool it down – that is when six beautiful baby boys take form and float down the gangA into a thicket of Sara grass where the kRtikA maidens find them