The Music of Hindostan c16.9

c16.9

Words. A girl is singing:—Pallavi. Why do you not come to me, O Rāma. Anupallavi. O infinite God, strong as Mount Meru, I can no longer bear (to be without you). Caraṇam. A fatherless and motherless child I pray to thee, I call on thee, I beseech thee, my own Lord. Again and again I cry in my sorrow to thee, my own dear Lord. Ah! with what yearning I gaze upon thy face, fair as the lotus. I send my petition to thee in strains that Tyāgarāja has made.