Prayer of the Day

Prayer from Basavanna Vachana

 

ಎನ್ನ ಕಾಯವ ದಂಡಿಗೆಯ ಮಾಡಯ್ಯಾ,
ಎನ್ನ ಶಿರವ ಸೋರೆಯ ಮಾಡಯ್ಯ,
ಎನ್ನ ನರವ ತಂತಿಯ ಮಾಡಯ್ಯಾ,
ಎನ್ನ ಬೆರಳ ಕಡ್ಡಿಯ ಮಾಡಯ್ಯ,
ಬತ್ತೀಸ ರಾಗವ ಪಾಡಯ್ಯಾ,
ಉರದಲೊತ್ತಿ ಬಾರಿಸು,
ಕೂಡಲಸಂಗಮದೇವಾ!

Song as Romanized text

 
enna kAyava daMDigeya mADayyA,
enna shirava sOreya mADayya,
enna narava taMtiya mADayyA,
enna beraLa kaDDiya mADayya,
battIsa rAgava pADayyA,
uradalotti bArisu,
kUDalasaMgamadEvA!

Meaning of the Prayer Song:

 Make my body the stem;
Make my head the pot;
Make my nerves the string;
Make my fingers the sticks;
Sing the 32 ragas;
Play heartily;
Oh the Divine of Kudalasangama!

 Notes: 

1. An offering from Basavanna to the Lord to take his own body
as the musical instrument that the Lord can play heartily!
What a music life would be!

2.  battIsa rAga
32 Ragas. Only 32 Melakarta ragas can be formed with the 12 svara sthanas
without the vivadi svaras.