Ithu thaan theriyumo

Ithu thaan  theriyumo

You know only this

By

OOthukadu Venkata Kavi

Translated by

P.R.Ramachander

Ragam  Chakra vaham

Thalam Misra chapu

Pallavi

Ithu thaan theriyumo,

Avarkku  innamum   theriyumo?

Yendru ithai  kettu  vaa podi

Only  this much is known,

Does he know  only this much?

Go and ask about this   and come back.

Madhyama kaalam

Innisai  kuzhal oothi, oar eerezhu  ulakodu,

Yaavayume oarezhenum  isayodu  vilai  pesumavar

Playing   the sweet flute, and who  with the  fourteen worlds,

Haggles with  music of seven notes

Anupallavi

Pothuvil  kuzhaloothum  punniyam  thaano,

Poomelum mayiladum punniyan  thaano,

Yethum avarai cholli yenna payan  thaano,

Yeno yen manathukku indha aasayum  thaano

Innisai  kuzhal oothi, oar eerezhu  ulakodu,

Yaavayume oarezhenum  isayodu  vilai  pesumavar

Is it blessing received  by playing  flute in public,

Is he  the blessed one who dances on flower  as well as peacock?

What  is the use  of telling  anything about  him,

Why, why this   desire  to my mind

Playing   the sweet flute, and who  with the  fourteen worlds,

Haggles with  music of seven notes

Charanam

Kallamaadum china pillai  thanamellam,

Kannanukku  innamum pokaatho,

Kayyanai  vennai thanthaal karuthayum,

Konnaikku  kanakkittar   kurumbena aagatho

Innisai  kuzhal oothi, oar eerezhu  ulakodu,

Yaavayume oarezhenum  isayodu  vilai  pesumavar

This boyishness  of playing all  this mischief,

Has it not gone still to  Krishna,

If you give him  hand full of butter, will it not become,

That he is haggling  our mind as  mischief

Playing   the sweet flute, and who  with the  fourteen worlds,

Haggles with  music of seven notes