ಜಗದೋದ್ಧಾರನ ಆಡಿಸಿದಳೆಶೋದೆ
ಜಗದೋದ್ಧಾರನ ಮಗನೆಂದು ತಿಳಿಯುತ
ಸುಗುಣಾಂತ ರಂಗನ ಆಡಿಸಿದಳೆಶೋದೆ
ನಿಗಮಕೆ ಸಿಲುಕದ ಅಗಣಿತ ಮಹಿಮನ
ಮಗುಗಳ ಮಾಣಿಕ್ಯನ ಆಡಿಸಿದಳೆಶೋದೆ
ಅಣೋರಣೀಯನ ಮಹತೋಮಹೀಯನ
ಅಪ್ರಮೇಯನ ಆಡಿಸಿದಳೆಶೋದೆ
ಪರಮ ಪುರುಷನ ಪರವಾಸುದೇವನ
ಪುರಂದರವಿಠ್ಠಲನ ಆಡಿಸಿದಳೆಶೋದೆ
जगदोद्धारन आडिसिदळॆशोदॆ
जगदोद्धारन मगनॆंदु तिळियुत
सुगुणांत रंगन आडिसिदळॆशोदॆ
निगमकॆ सिलुकद अगणित महिमन
मगुगळ माणिक्यन आडिसिदळॆशोदॆ
अणोरणीयन महतोमहीयन
अप्रमेयन आडिसिदळॆशोदॆ
परम पुरुषन परवासुदेवन
पुरंदरविठ्ठलन आडिसिदळॆशोदॆ
jagadōddhārana āḍisidaḷeśōde
jagadōddhārana maganendu tiḷiyuta
suguṇānta raṅgana āḍisidaḷeśōde
nigamake silukada agaṇita mahimana
magugaḷa māṇikyana āḍisidaḷeśōde
aṇōraṇīyana mahatōmahīyana
apramēyana āḍisidaḷeśōde
parama puruṣana paravāsudēvana
purandaraviṭhṭhalana āḍisidaḷeśōde
Meaning
Pallavi: Yashoda played with the uplifter of the world.
Anupallavi: Taking the uplifter of the world to be her son, Yashoda played with Ranga, whose good qualities have no end.
1. Him whom the Vedas cannot capture, whose greatness is beyond counting, the ruby among children, Yashoda played with.
2. Him who is smaller than the smallest and greater than the greatest, the immeasurable one, Yashoda played with.
3. The Supreme Person, the highest Vasudeva, Purandara Vitthala, Yashoda played with.
About this bhajan
The whole song turns on one wonder. The Katha Upanishad calls the Self ‘smaller than the atom, greater than the great’, and Purandara Dasa puts those very words, aṇor aṇīyān mahato mahīyān, into a lullaby: this is the child Yashoda is bouncing on her knee. She thinks he is her son. The Vedas cannot hold him, yet her arms do. Sung in Kapi to Adi tala, it is one of the most loved Dasa songs in concert, and M. S. Subbulakshmi’s recording carried it far beyond Karnataka. At Janmashtami it is sung beside the cradle.
Kannada Wikisource, ‘ಆಡಿಸಿದಳೆಶೋದಾ ಜಗದೋದ್ಧಾರನ’ (Purandara Dasa; raga Kapi, Adi tala); section order follows karnatik.com c1279