सामजवरगमन साधुहृत्सारसाब्जपाल
कालातीतविख्यात
सामनिगमजसुधामयगानविचक्षण
गुणशील दयालवाल मां पालय
वेदशिरोमातृजसप्तस्वरनादाचलदीप
स्वीकृतयादवकुलमुरलीवादनविनोद
मोहनकर त्यागराजवन्दनीय
sāmajavaragamana sādhuhṛtsārasābjapāla
kālātītavikhyāta
sāmanigamajasudhāmayagānavicakṣaṇa
guṇaśīla dayālavāla māṁ pālaya
vedaśiromātṛjasaptasvaranādācaladīpa
svīkṛtayādavakulamuralīvādanavinoda
mohanakara tyāgarājavandanīya
Meaning
Pallavi: O you whose gait is like a noble elephant’s; guardian of the lotus that is the heart of the good; renowned beyond time.
Anupallavi: Master of nectar-sweet music born of the Sama Veda; of noble nature; ocean of compassion: protect me.
Charanam: Lamp on the mountain of nada, the seven swaras born of the mother who is the crown of the Vedas; who took birth in the Yadava clan and delights in playing the flute; enchanter; worthy of Tyagaraja’s worship.
About this bhajan
Hindolam has only five notes, and Tyagaraja fills them with Krishna walking like a royal elephant. The kriti makes music itself sacred: the seven swaras come from the Sama Veda, and Krishna is the lamp burning on the mountain of nada. Tyagaraja held that nada upasana, worship through sound, is a full path to Bhagwan, and this short Sanskrit kriti says so in a few lines. It is one of the first kritis many students learn in Hindolam, and concert singers use it for long passages of kalpana swaras. The ‘samaja-vara-gamana’ opening is also the stock image Sanskrit poets use for a noble bearing.
te.wikisource.org, ‘సామజ వర గమన’ (హిందోళం, ఆది); checked against karnatik.com c1036; Devanagari transliteration by the editor