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Appreciating Annamacharya - Part 9
 We continue with the lec-dem given by V A K Ranga Rao at the Tirumala-Tirupati Devasthanams, T Nagar, Chennai, on September 8, 2003.
Continuing with the dashAvatAra theme, Ranga Rao spoke of other songs that describe the various avatArAs. There is a song on mOhini, (not included in the ten
avatArAs).
The topic taken up next was the shringAra songs of Annamacharya, wherein he sings of the union of Venkateswara and Padmavathi. The song 'palukuTE nEla talli' is a typical example and was translated as follows:
The lady of sweet speech still sleeps
Because she has revelled in her union with the Lord
As her beauty eddies on her glowing face she sleeps till late in the day, because with unending ways of love-making till dawn, she has bought off the heart of
Venkateswara.
Her upper clothing has slipped off. Her bejewelled breasts are exposed. As she reclines in her golden chamber, the edge of her red lotus eyes give off erotic sparks.
Because she is so fatigued in her sport with Venkatesa, with beautiful glow and form, on the pearl festooned bedstead she sleeps blissfully. Because she was embraced by Venkatesa, she is flecked with his perspiration and looks like a dew touched bud.
The song was then rendered by Swamimalai Suresh.
The next song was 'muddugArE yashOda' where Krishna is compared to the nine gems. The song was set in Kuranji rAga by Nedunuri
Krishnamurthy.
The meaning was given as:
He is the lovable pearl on Yashoda’s doorstep, the son of Devaki, performer of immaculate miracles
He is the ruby for the Gopis, he is the diamond-edged killer of Kamsa
He is the green emerald that illumines the three worlds, that little Krishna who is within us.
In love-making he is the coral on Rukmini’s lips. He is the topaz that protects the cows and cowherds with Govardhana. The eternal vaiDurya between the conch and the discus. Our saviour, the lotus-eyed one.
He is the puShparAga that danced on Kaliya. He is the blue saphire of Tirumala. He is the divine gem that is never parted from the ocean of milk. The lotus naveled one who laughs within us like a child.
The programme then concluded for the day.
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