vara-naaradha

vara nArada-vijayaSrI

In the kRti ‘vara nArada nArAyaNa smaraNa’ – rAga vijayaSrI (tALa Adi), SrI tyAgarAja prays to sage nArada whom he describes the guru for all the worlds.

pallavi

vara nArada ¹nArAyaNa

smaraN(A)nand(A)nubhavamu gala (vara)

anupallavi

Sarad-indu nibh(A)paghan(A)nagha

sAramugAnu brOvum(i)ka (vara)

caraNam

sakala lOkamulaku ²sad-guruv(a)nucu

sadA ³nEn(a)taD(a)nucu hariyu

prakaTambuga kIrtin(o)sangenE

bhAvuka tyAgarAja nuta (vara)

Gist

O Blessed sage nArada endowed with the experience of bliss of ever remembering Lord nArayaNa! O Sinless One whose body resembles the autumnal moon! O Blessed sage nArada praised by this fortunate tyAgarAja!

• Hasn’t Lord hari conferred fame on you proclaiming -

• ‘he is the true preceptor for entire worlds’; and

• ‘I am always he’?
  

• Please protect me now nicely.

प.

वर नारद नारायण

स्मर(णा)न(न्दा)नुभवमु गल

(वर)

अ.

शर(दि)न्दु नि(भा)पघ(ना)नघ

सारमुगानु ब्रोवु(मि)क

(वर)

च.

सकल लोकमुलकु सद्गुरु(व)नुचु

सदा ने(न)त(ड)नुचु हरियु

प्रकटम्बुग कीर्ति(नॊ)संगॆने

भावुक त्यागराज नुत (वर)