Singer: Sanjay Subrahmanyan
Lyric & Music: Tyagaraja
Venue: Cholamandal Artists Village, Chennai
Date: 31st January 2019
Occasion: The concert was held as part of a retrospective on the works of the celebrated painter and artist SG Vasudev.

Violin: S Varadarajan
Mrudangam: Neyveli B Venkatesh

Credits
Video: Aarthi Sanjay
Audio: Yessel Narasimhan
A/V mix and edit: Vivek Sadasivam

Lyrics & Meaning

baNTu rIti koluvu-iyyavayya rAma

O Lord (ayya) rAma! Give (iyyi) me the privilege of being in Your service (koluvu) (koluviyyavayya) as (rIti) a (royal) guard (baNTu).

tuNTa viNTi vAni modalaina
mada-Adula koTTi nEla kUla jEyu nija (baNTu)

O Lord rAma! Give me the privilege of being in Your service as a true (nija) (royal) guard –
who would thrash (koTTi) the six interanal enemies – beginning with (modalaina) desire (kAma) – wielder (vAni) of sugar cane (tuNTa) bow (villu) (viNTi) - conceit (mada) etc. (Adula) (madAdula) and make (jEyu) them bite dust (nEla kUla) (literally knock down to earth).

rOmAncamu-anu ghana kancukamu
rAma bhaktuDu-anu mudra biLLayu
rAma nAmamu-anu vara khaDgamu-ivi
rAjillunu-ayya tyAgarAjunikE (baNTu)

O Lord (ayya) rAma! Give this tyAgarAja (tyAgarAjunikE) the privilege of being in Your service as a (royal) guard on whose person would shine (rAjillunu) (rAjillunayya) these (ivi) -
a heavy (ghana) armour (kancukamu) of (anu) horripilation (rOmAncamu) (rOmAncamanu),
royal (mudra) badge (biLLayu) of being (anu) rAma’s devotee (bhaktuDu) (bhaktuDanu) and
divine (vara) sword (khaDgamu) (khaDgamivi) called (anu) rAma’s name (nAmamu) (nAmamanu).

(Courtesy - http://thyagaraja-vaibhavam.blogspot.com/2008/09/thyagaraja-kriti-bantu-reeti-raga.html)

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