Ramnad Krishnan | Raga Atana | Mummurtulu Gumi

Mummurtulu Gumi
Raga - Atana / Talam - Adi / Composer - Thyagaraja

In the krti ‘Mummurtulu gumi’, Sri Tyagaraja states that even the Trinity sing the praise of Sri Rama.

Pallavi
mummUrtulu gumi kUDi pogaDE muccaTa vinukOrE

Anupallavi
sammatiga rAju koDuk(a)naga vini
samSayamu tIraka SrI rAmuni (mum)

Charanam
rOsamutO raghu rAmuni guNamula
rUDiga tama guNamulan(a)Tu vrAasi
trAsuna(n)iDa sari nilva lEd(a)ni
1tyAgarAja nutuD(e)vaDO(y)anucunu (mum)

Meaning
Pallavi
Listen (vinukOrE) to the conversation (muccaTa) of the Trinity (mummUrtulu) praising (pogaDE) together (gumi kUDi) (SrI rAma).

Anupallavi
Having been told (anaga vini) (literally hearing people telling) that He is the son (koDuku) (koDukanaga) of King (rAju) (daSaratha),
their doubt (samSayamu) not having been dispelled (tIraka),
listen to the conversation of the Trinity praising together SrI rAma (rAmuni) whole heartedly (sammatiga).

Charanam
Being piqued (rOsamutO), writing down (vrAsi) the virtues (guNamula) of SrI raghu rAma (rAmuni) and their own (tama) well-known (rUDiga) virtues (guNamulanu), as they placed (iDa) there (aTu) (guNamulanaTu) on a scale (trAsuna) (trAsunaniDa),
finding that (ani) the scale did not (lEdu) (lEdani) balance (sari nilva), wondering as to (anucunu) ‘who this person (evaDO) praised (nutuDu) (nutaDevaDOyanucu) by tyAgarAja could be’, listen to the conversation of the Trinity praising together SrI rAma,.

Lyrics and meaning: thyagaraja-vaibhavam.blogspot.com
Picture: carnatica.in
Editing: Shreeraam Shankar