Bhāgyada Lakṣmī Bārammā · Selected lines
A welcoming song for Lakshmi, the goddess of prosperity.
Purandara Dāsa
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The refrain addresses Lakshmi affectionately as ‘our mother.’ The next lines imagine her arrival through the sound of anklets. This is a selected opening passage, not the complete composition.
ಬಾರಮ್ಮ (bārammā) joins ‘come’ with ಅಮ್ಮ (ammā, ‘mother’), an affectionate form of address to the goddess; it is not the usual polite invitation to a stranger.
ಹೆಜ್ಜೆ (hejje) is a step and ಗೆಜ್ಜೆ (gejje) is an anklet. The near-rhyme turns Lakshmi’s approach into something listeners can almost hear.
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