3945. Rāmānujā, wonderful good-natured lord,
is the highest one who created all the creatures of the world
and is loved by learned people.
He, as generous as a karpaga tree, came to rule me.
Word by Word (WBW) meaning
(The words may be rearranged to facilitate poetry to prose conversion (Aṉvayam). Please read the meanings (in black) continiously to form the sentence and understand the simple meaning of those verse.)
ennai āl̤a — ṭo take me as his servant; vandha — he came searching, to my place; kaṛpagam — he is very generous, and; kaṝavar — the knowledgeable ones; kāmuṛu — love him,; seelan — having the quality of sauṣeelyam (excellence of disposition); aṛpudham — he is wonderful,; semmai — without looking at the bad qualities of those who surrendered to him, he, like how those who bring water to higher places where water would not flow by itself, is having the quality of honesty where he sets himself to be accessible at the same level as those who come to him, and interacts with them,; irāmānusan — such emperumānār,; karudhariya — if one tried to think about it, one would not be able to complete that task (of counting/thinking); paṛpal uyirgal̤um — such uncountable number of āthmas,; pal ulagu yāvum — and the unlimited number of places where such āthmās are present,; paranadhu — they are all of service to emperumān; vandhu — without any one asking for it, emperumānār came by himself,; nāttinan — and established; ennum — such; nal porul̤ thannai — great meaning,; in nānilaththĕ — in this world.; ḥis greatness is greater than when compared to that kaṛpagam (or, kalpagam) — his getting us to be his servants, and coming to our place searching; parpal uyirgal̤ – various categories of life;; some say it as pal ulagil yāvum — but since it would be having excess number of syllables, it is not correct; would it not be incorrect to say pallulagiyāvum – no it would not be incorrect as it is similar to uraikkinṛanan umakkiyān, where it fits the thamizh grammar on number of syllables.