mEDasAni vAri samasyA mAlika - mari konni pUraNA yatnamulu

Srinivasa Dokka (sdokka@st6000.sct.edu)
Fri, 9 Feb 1996 16:27:44 -0500 (EST)

Some more attempts at another set of samasyalu from the sahasrAvadhAnam list
of SrI mOhan mEDasAni..

As I said earlier,

" jigi padamula yartha mamara,
bigi yati yanu niyati maruva pADiyu gAdE !!"

anTU, #3 lO tappa, migilina pUraNalalO "yati maitri"ni gAliki vadili vEyaDam
jarigindikkaDa, kshantavyuDini.

1. yEnu getti bAlu DIDci tanne..

I don't see much variation in formulating this samasya, since this is an
age-old, traditional samasya like "yelukalu tama kalugu lOnki yEnugu nIDcen",
about which I'll discuss in a later message. I do not think that this samasya
demanded a great effort in its creation as is the case with this pUraNa --

ATa : ATa lADa tecce nAtanDri bommalu,
kOti, pilli, yEngu linka pululu,
ATa lADi yalasi visigi pOyEnEmo,
yEnu getti bAlu DIDci tanne !!

2. sAni bOlu mEDa sAni cUDa..

Here is an interesting variation on re-visiting our avadhAni, SrI mOhan
mEDasAni gAri (mIda) samasya. Intaku mundu, telugu kavitA sAnini,
SrI mEDa sAninI, "tallI biDDalugA pOlcina", A pUraNA ilA sAgindi --

Ganuti kekke mETi yavadhAni yItaDu,
telugu tallikitaDe muddu biDDa,
padamu padamu nandu madhuvu cindu kavitA
sAni bOlu mEDa sAni cUDa..

and now,

ATa : padamu lalla GanuDu yavadhAna mulayandu,
padya racana yandu, kavana mandu,
peddana talapincu nitaDu nijamu, yalla
sAni bOlu mEDa sAni cUDa !!

3. mudusalini penDlADi kanya murisi pOye..

That was a very interesting thought to formulate such a samasya. I don't
exactly know what the pRchchaka had in mind while creating it, but I
proceeded like this, in its pUraNa --

tETa : puriTi lOne vayasu maLLu purushu kanTe,
manasu nandu javvanuDagu manishe mElu,
prEmaku vayasEla yanaga prIti, panDu
mudusalini kanya penDlADi murisi pOye !!

on the same lines of "konta mandi kurra vALLu puTTukatO vRdhdhulu..." song.

4. kAramu nITi mUTayina kAnksha naSincunu kalgu mOkshamun..

once kAramu is slipped into ahankAramu, the pUraNAmu was no big deal --

utpa : BAramu m(r)Oya durlaBamu, yentaTi vAriki yaina, GOra sam
sAramu bandhanambu, para mAtmuni, yAtmanu, yokkagA cErcu
dArini jUDagA valayu, nEnanu - nAdanu garvamun, nahan
kAramu nITi mUTayina kAnksha naSincunu kalgu mOkshamun !!

Inviting your comments, corrections and suggestions, I remain,

regards..

- Ram ( Ramabhadra Dokka from sdokka@st6000.sct.edu)