Lyrics,queries and meaning- Kannada

[Sudarshan C R]

Kannada literature became wealthy by the valuable contributions from ‘Haridasa’s like Purandaradasa, Kanakadasa, Kamalesha Vittaladasa, Vadiraja, Mahipathidasa and many others. They have selected Carnatic music to teach/guide common people and divert their attention towards almighty god. They composed their song lyrics with simple words, easy to understand and rendered them through music with relevant Raga. This type of tradition was started by Shri Purandaradasa who is also called as Founder of Carnatic music.
Though exact words are not available in English for Kannada words, I am trying to provide equivalent/relevant words which gives similar/nearest meaning to the lyric.

Hello Rajraj,

There is a prelude (ugAbhoga) to the lyric ‘yamanelli kANeMdu keLabEDa’ which follows next to this description. The same prelude was sung by MLV before singing ‘innu dayabArade dAsana mEle’
(http://www.kannadaaudio.com/Songs/Cl...home/MLV-1.php)

The prelude lyric follows:

Aneyu karedare AdimUla baMdaMte,
ajAmiLanu karedare nArAyaNa baMdaMte,
aDaviyalli dhRuvarAya karedare vAsudEva baMdaMte,
saBeyalli draupati karedare shrIkRuShNa baMdaMte,
ninna dAsara dAsanu nA karedare enna pAlisabEku puraMdara viThala
Meaning of the song lyric:

When gajendra called he came like AdimUla(Supreme power)
(Remember the episode of gajendra moksha-elephant & crocodile)
When ajAmiLa called he came like Narayana
Dhruva called him in forest he came as Vasudeva
When Draupadi called him in Assembly, came like Shrikrishna
I am a slave of your servants, calling you to protect me purandara vittala

Meaning of the song ‘yamanelli kANeneMdu’:

Don’t say (or ask) Yama (god of death) is not to be seen
Sreerama himself is Yama, no doubt about that

Vibheeshana – Rama,Ravana – Yama
Arjuna - Friend, Dhuryodhana – Enemy
Prahlada - Hari, Hiranyaka - Rope (It is huriyada or pAsha of Yama – not kuri which means sheep)
Ugrasena – servant, kamsa – enemy
Have faith/believe in ShriKrishna as early as possible
Possessing Conch (kambu) and Wheel(Sudarshana) Shri purandara vittala