Carnatic Veena: Karthik renders a Thyagaraja Krithi Bantureethi Koluvu in the Raga Hamsanadam, set to Adi Talam. br br Song: Bantureethi Koluvubr Ragam: hamsanAda (60th Mela (Neethimathi) Janyam) br AROHANA: S R2 M2 P N3 S ||br br AVAROHANA: S N3 P M2 R2 S ||br br Talam: Deshadi (Adi)br br Composer: Tyagarajabr br Pallavi:br br baNTu rIti koluv(i)yya(v)ayya rAmabr br Anupallavi:br br tuNTa viNTi vAni modalaina mad(A)dulabr br goTTi nEla gUla jEyu nija (baNTu)br br Charanam:br br rOmAncam(a)nu ghana kancukamubr br rAma bhaktuD(a)nu mudra biLLayubr br rAma nAmam(a)nu vara khaDgamivibr br rAjillun(a)yya tyAgarAjunikE (baNTu)br br br MEANING: br br In this beautiful Bantureethi Kolu Carnatic song, Sri Thyagaraja swamy pleads with Lord Rama to give him the post of a guard for Rama. The symbolic meaning is that he always wants to be in his presence always (Sri Rama's Sannidhi).br br O Lord rAma! Bestow on me (“iyyavayya”) the privilege (“kolu”) of being in Your service as a servitor (“Bantu rIti”).br br In the Anupallavi, Sri Thyagaraja Swamy says that, the guard’s post should be such that he is empowered to destroy all the demons which are Arishadvargas (Arishad Vargas are the six passions of the mind: Kama - lust, craze, desire; Krodha - anger, hatred; Lobha - greed, miserliness, narrow minded; Moha - delusory emotional attachment; Mada or Ahankara - pride, stubborn mindedness; and Matsarya - envy, jealousy, show or vanity, and pride) and since the guard is empowered to do so, he needs such a guard's post.br br O Lord rAma! Bestow on me the privilege of being in Your service as a true (“nija”) servitor (“Bantu rIti”) who can knock down (“goTTi” the six internal enemies (“mad(A)dula”) beginning (“modalaina”) with desire kAma (sugar cane archer – “tuNTa viNTi vAni” ), conceit etc to the ground (“nEla”) by thrashing these (“gUla jEyu”).br br In the Caranam, Thyagaraja says that the sublimated (“rOmAncam(a)nu”) version of kama is devotion that acts as his strong shield (“ghana kancukamu”). Tyagaraja requests that he should be blessed with the emblem (“mudra”) of Ramabhakti (“rAma bhaktuD(a)nu”), given a sword (“khaDgamivi”) called Rama Naama (the name of Rama) to perform his guard's job. - O Lord! all these will shine (“rAjillun(a)yya”) on the person of this tyAgarAja.br br br ABOUT VEENA ARTIST N.