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taaLam: tishra Eka
Composer: Annamaacaarya
Language: Telugu

pallavi

aakaTi vELala alapaina vELalanu
tEkuva hari naamamE dikku maRi lEdu
(aakaTi)

caraNam 1

koRamaaliyunna vELa kulamu ceDina vELa
ceravaDi yorulacE jikkina vELa
oRapaina hari naama mokkaTE gatigaaka
maRaci tappina naina marilEdu teragu
(aakaTi)

caraNam 2

aapada vaccina vELa aaraDibaDina vELa
paapapu vELala bhaayapaDina vELa
Opinanta harinaama mokkaTE gatigaaka
maapudaaka boralina marilEdu teragu
(aakaTi)

caraNam 3

sankeLa beTTina vELa campa bilicina vELa
ankiligaa nappulavaa raagina vELa
venkaTEsu naamamE viDipimca gatigaaka
mangu puddi boralina malilEdu teragu
(aakaTi)

Meaning:
When you feel hungry and tired, the only way out of it is the chanting of "Harinaama." In the situation where you lose everything and get caught by adversity, you can be saved only by chanting "Harinaama" (the name of Hari). In dangers, sins, troubles, fears, one can feel secure only by rendering "Harinaama." If you surrender yourself to the Lord, he will save you and be with you in all your misfortunes.

Word by word: (contributed by PT Rajalakshmi)
pallavi: aakaTi - hungry
veLala - time
alapaina - complaining, lazy, tired
tekuva - too much
hari - Lord Hari, Vishnu
naama - name
dikku - savior, protector
mari ledu - nothing else
When hungry, over tired, only Hari's name is enough and nothing else can protect you.

caraNam 1: koRamaaliyunna - useless
kulamu - family
ceDina - broken
ceravaDi - getting together
yorulacE - anyone at all
jikkina - catching, snatched
When you are useless, and family is broken apart, when you are in the company of bad people (or going bad by others)

ORapaina - one kind, beautiful
mokkaTe - only
gatigaaka - saves
maRaci - forgotten
tappina - escape
vaina - from, all
teragu - you will get it, or will happen
The beautiful name of Hari only will save you and help you forget and escape from all that.

caraNam 2: aapada - danger, difficulty
vaccina - coming
aaraDi - suffering, tapas
baDina - like that, undergoing
paapapu - sinning
bhaya - fear
When in danger, when suffering, when you have sinned, or are in fear

Opinanta - with patience, security
Saying Hari's name patiently will save you.

caraNam 3: sankela - handcuffs
beTTina - put on
campa - murder
bilicina - calling someone
ankiligaa -
naapulavaa - imagination?
vaagina - blabbering
When handcuffed, when bringing someone to murder, when in strange imaginations blabbering (going mad)

venkatesu - Lord Venkatesha, Vishnu
vidipinca - breaks you free
mangu - stubborn, donkey-like
buddhi - mind
boralina - rolling around
The name of Lord Venkatesha breaks you free and saves you from the wanderings of your own mind, and is the only thing that can set you free.