Req: kadir kAma lyrics, meaning

[HariKrishna]

This is a Paapanaasam Shivan krithi in rAga kAmbhoji. Please also furnish tALa information if known. It is sung by P. Unnikrishnan on track 4 of his Vasantha Guhane: Murugan Songs to raise hopes for cancer victims CD.

thanks,

Krishna

[Lakshman]

kadir kAma kandan. rAgA: kAmbhOji. tisra tripuTa tALA.

P: kadir kAma kandan pUN kazalinai paNi manamE undan
kavalai piNi kaliyumara anudinamum
A: mudir jnAnam alaiyum mana amaidi ariya
muDivil inbam mudhaliyana parivoDu tara varum karuNaiyan
C: nI engirundAlum unaduu kanja padamen nenjam maravEn
nIyum Enaik-kaiviDalAgAdu kOlamayil vAhana guhA
tIya asurar kulam mALa viDu panniru tOLA vaLLi
kunjari maNALa dInadayALA aruLALA enranbODu

[Pratyaksham Bala]

pUm - pUN
unaduu - unadu
Enaik-kaiviDaAgAdu - enaik kaiviDalAgAdu

[Lakshman]

Thanks for the corrections.

[PUNARVASU]

PB , is it not 'pUnkazhalinai'?

[Pratyaksham Bala]

pUNkazhal பூண்கழல் > பூணுதல் = அணிதல்
ornament worn around the anklet

[PUNARVASU]

I felt 'kazhal' here refers to the foot(feet) of the Lord rather than the ornament and 'pUnkazhal (or pUngazhal,) refers to the flower like foot(feet) of the Lord. kazhal is used to denote the feet in many places.

[Pratyaksham Bala]

PUNARVASU:
The word கழல் has two meanings:
(1) foot. கரணர்கள் வந்தனர் கழல் வணங்கினார்; பேராட்டி சீராட்டும் பிள்ளையார் கழல் போற்றி
(2) anklet. வீரனணியுங் கழல்; காலில் அணியும் பித்தளைக் கழல்.

As mentioned by you, here pUngazhal is more appropriate! Thank you!

Lakshman-ji.
You may please correct 'pUm' in the Pallavi line as 'pUn'
.

[rshankar]

pallavi
kAma kandan pUN kazalinai paNi manamE undan
kavalai piNi kaliyumara anudinamum (kadir kAma...)
Oh mind (manamE), please offer worship (paNi) at the beautiful/flower-like (pUn) feet (kazhalinai) of murugan (kandan), the resident of kadirkAmam [1], every day (anudinamum), so that your worries (kavalai), disease/affliction/suffering (piNi) as well as unease (kaliyum) are destoyed (ara)!

anupallavi
mudir jnAnam alaiyum mana amaidi ariya
muDivil inbam mudhaliyana parivoDu tara varum karuNaiyan
(Oh mind, please worship muruga at kadirkAmam) the compassionate one (karuNaiyan) who appears (varum) and grants (tara) everything, beginning with (mutalAna) [2] bliss (inbam) at the very end (muDivil) of our lives with extreme care and affection (parivODu), so that you can comprehend (ariya) wisdom (knowledge (jnAnam) that has matured (mudir) [3]), and your mind (mana), that has grown weary with wandering (alaiyum) to know (ariya) [4] peace (amaidi) at last.

caraNam
nI engirundAlum unaduu kanja padamen nenjam maravEn
nIyum enaik-kaiviDalAgAdu kOlamayil vAhana guhA
tIya asurar kulam mALa viDu panniru tOLA
vaLLi kunjari maNALa dInadayALA aruLALA enranbODu (kadir kAma...)
Whereever (engu) you (nI) exist (irundAlum), my (en) heart (nenjam) will not forget (maravEn) your (undau) lotus (kajna)-like feet (padam); so it will not be appropriate (AgAdu) for you (nIyum), to give up (kaiviDal) on me (enai), Oh resident of my innermost consciousness (guhA) who rides (vAhana) a beautiful (kOla) peacock (mayil)! So, please call out to him with love (anbODu) as (enru) the Lord with 12 (panniru) shoulders (tOLA) who let/caused (viDu) the evil (tIya) dysnasty (kula) of the demons (asura) to perish (mALa); the Lord who is the bridegroom (maNALA) of vaLLi and dEvasEnA (kunjari); the Lord who is compassioate (dayALA) to the destitute (dIna); and the Lord who showers his grace (aruLALA) on us and (worship muruga at kadirkAmam)!

FOOTNOTES
[1] A murugan temple in the southern part of Sri Lanka
[2] I think this is mudalAna, and not mudaliyAna
[3] As Sri Rajaji said in his introduction to the bhajagOvindam recording by Smt. MSS, knowledge that matures and lodges securely in the minds of people becomes wisdom...and when wisdom issues forth in action, it becomes devotion
[4] While 'comprehend' and 'know' are very different, ariya can mean both

[PUNARVASU]

'ariya'- though for the purpose of singing it is enough to know the word as such, there is a difference between 'ariya'(rare) and 'aRiya' ,(to know). For a non-tamilian it may not matter much, but I feel it is better to use the correct letter so that those who know tamizh, will understand better. Otherwise ,down the years, there is a fear of this being again transliterated in tamizh to 'ariya',which means 'rare'.
In another thread on vaggeykaras, there is a discussion going on between the usage of the word
'mukunda' and 'mukula'.
Just a thought which came to my mind. There are many such examples.

[Pratyaksham Bala]

PUNARVASU:
R? I had tried in vain.
There seems to be an official ban!

No Veda! (மறை) No God! (இறை)

But, there is an advantage: Nobody can die!
இறக்க முடியாது. இரக்கத்தான் வேண்டும்
'iRakka muDiyAdu'. 'irakkattAn vEnDum'!

[vgovindan]

punarvasu,
I have often faced this problem. Now also, while I am translating the SS, punnAga varAli Tamil kRti 'ennEramum', I am facing the same problem. But in my opinion, it is better to transliterate as 'r' even when 'R' is meant. The reason is, the pronunciation of 'RR' is different in Tamil and Telugu - btw - telugu also has 'R' which, according to my dictionary, has since been discarded. But even my wife finds it difficult when I use wrong 'r' in place of 'R' - she knows telugu script. As regards pronunciation of 'RRa' - in Tamil it is pronounced as 'Tra' (muRRam - as muTram); but in Telugu it is pronounced as 'rra' (guRRam - as gurram) which is not permissible in Tamil.
A Telugu cannot be excused for wrong pronunciation of a Telugu word; A Tamil cannot be excused for wrong pronunciation of a Tamil word. One cannot be careless about one's own tongue. But what is really happening is different. But then it is a different topic.