Bhaavayaami

Padmanabhaswamy Temple Trivandrum

What a brilliant confluence of all that is best in our literature, music and artistic dedication is this immortal song, Bhaavayaami Raghuraamam, composed by a prince among composers Maharaja Swati Tirunal. Many texts are in circulation, with many errors (just my opinion). But I found an excellent resource here to read and understand this song: Dr. Narayanaswami's translation and notation at carnatica.net. I have copied the lyric in transliteration script here:

bhAvayAmi raghurAmaM
bhavyasuguNArAmam ||

bhAvuka vitaraNaparA pAN^ga lIlA lasitam ||

dinakarAnvayatilakaM divyagAdhisutasavanA-
vanaracitasubAhumukhavadhaM ahalyApAvanam
anaghamIshacApabaN^gaM janakasutAprANEshaM
ghanakupitabh.rghurAmagarvaharamitasAkEtam ||

vihitAbhiSekamathavipinagatamAryavAcA
sahitasItAsaumitriM shAntatamashIlam
guhanilayagataM citrakUTAgatabharatadatta-
mahittaratnamayapAdukaM madanasundarAN^gam ||

vitatadaNDakAraNyagatavirAdhadaLanaM
sucaritaghaTajadattAnupamitavaiSNavAstram
patagavarajaTAyunutaM pa~ncavaTIvihitAvAsaM
atighOrashUrpaNakhAvacanAgatakharAdiharam ||

kanaka m.rga rUpadhara khalamArIcaharam iha
sujana vimata dashAsya h.rtajanaka jAnvESaNam
anaghapaMpA tIrasaN^gatA~njanEya nabhOmaNi-
tanuja sakhyakaraM vAlitanudaLanam Isham ||

vAnarottama sahita vAyusUnukarArpita-

bhAnushata bhAsvara bhavyaratnAN^guLIyam
tEna punarAnIta nyUnacUDAmaNI darshanaM
shrInidhim udadhitIrA shritavibhISaNa miLitam ||

kalitavarasetubhandhaM khalanissImapishitAshana-

dalanamurudashakaNThavidaraNamatidhIram
jvalanapUtajanakasutAsahitaM yAtasAkEtaM
vilasitapaTTAbhiSekaM vishvapAlaM padmanAbham ||

You can listen to the immortal MSS sing it here. I was told that the music was actually set by Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer.