Kachi maanagar amarntha kan kanda Guru Ganam(Tamil)

 Kachi  maanagar  amarntha kan kanda  Guru  Ganam(Tamil)

The song of the visible Guru who   sat in great  city  of  Kanchi

 

BY

Dhenu  pureeswara  Nadhan

 

Translated   by

P.R.Ramachander

 

1.Kana  kan aayiram vendum –ummai

Kana kan  aayiram vendum

 

To see  we need  thousand eyes-to see you,

We need  thousand eyes

 

2.Kayilaya  naadhane  , kaarunya  seelane

Kachi maanagar amarntha kanaka  sabhesane

Karpakamai varam arulum karunai  maa kadale

Karpoora oliyaaka kaakshi tharum   arut  kadale

 

Oh  Lord of Kailasa who has  kindness as his habit,

Oh Golden Sabhesa  who sat  in great  city  of Kanchipuram

Oh great sea of mercy   who grants  boons like   wish giving tree

Oh  sea  of grace . which appears  as the  light  of camphor

 

3.Kal aalin keezh amarntha  aadhi guru  naadhane

Kal  manthayum karaithu arulum  Kanchi  guru naadhane

Kallai  theppamaki  andru   karai  chertha  eesane

Kallathor illathorkku  arul  puriyum nesane

 

Oh  first  Guru   who sat under  stone  banyan tree

Oh Guru Nadha of Kanchi, who melts even a mind  of  stone

Oh God who made  a stone in to boat then and made us reach the  shore

Oh Friend who shows kindness to the uneducated   and the poor

 

4.Gangai karai  mannavane, Kasi  viswanathane

Kandhan  namam kondu vantha Guru  Swaminathane

Kambai nadhi kkarai  vandha  ekambara naadhane- bhaktharai

Karai  cherthida  vanthu amarntha Kanchi  guru naadhane

 

Oh king  of banks of Ganga , Oh Kasi  Viswanatha

Oh guru Swamintha who brought   the name of Skanda

Oh lord of ekambara   who came to shore of Kambai river

Oh Guru Nadha of Kanchi who came and sat to reach devotees  to the shore

 

Vizhpurathil  udhithitta   Viswa  guru  Ganam

The  song of  universal guru  born in Vizhuppuram

 

 

1.Aadhi nadhane , shiva  jothi  nadhane

AAdhi yekane, Guru  vedha  naadhane

Oadhi  magizhvom, un namam  kanchi  naadhane

 

Oh primeval lord, Oh Lord  who is  luster  of Lord Shiva

Oh primeval   solitary one, Oh Guru  who is Lord  of Vedas,

We will chant your name  and get overjoyed , Oh lord of  Kanchi

 

2.Vizhupurathil  malarnthitta  anusha  nadhane

Vizhiyaal  vinai   arutharul  Vizhi Nadhane

Kazhu  pini pokki   arul Vaidhyanadhane

Muzhu nilaa  mukam  kaatti mukthi nadhane

 

Oh  Anusha lord   who flowered  in Vizhupuram,

Oh Lord of wake up , by your look, cut off the fate,

Oh vaidhyantha , please   remove  the killer   diseases

Oh Lord of salvation by showing  your full moon like  face

 

3.Kalavayil Guruvaana  Loka Nadhane

Kanchiyil amarntharulum  Kasi  Nadhane

Kavalaikal  pokki arul  Kaavi nadhane

Kalamellam   kathu arulveer kayilai  nadhane

 

Oh lord  of people who became  Guru in Kalavai,

Oh Lord of Kasi who sat and showered his grace in Kanchi

Oh Lord of ochre , please remove our worries   and bless

Oh Lord of Kailasa, protect   us    for ever

 

4.Jagam pugazhum  Jagath  Guuve, Jagan Nadhane

Jagamengum  valam  vandha   Shiva  Guru  Nadhane

Akam kulira  varam arul Abhaya  nadhane

Agniyai pirappu  arupper  Advaida  Naadhane

 

Oh Jagath Guru  whom world praises, Oh  Lord of the world,

Oh Lord of Shiva Guru  , who   went around all over  the world

Oh lord of protection, give us boon to make our mind  cool,

Oh  Lord of advaitha, as fire cut off our birth death   cycle