Songs and meanings

[Badri]

Hello All,

This is my first post here...I joined just today, although I have been following some of the posts here off and on.

Knowing little of a language is more terrible than knowing nothing of it, I think. Although a Tamilian, I can get by speaking Telugu rather well, but I am stumped when it comes to deciphering the meanings of some of the songs of Annamacharya or Tyagaraja. And with both these composers, as with many others I am sure, there is richness and depth of meaning and we would be truly able to appreciate their songs only when we know them. After all these were not songs composed sitting at leisure, for the express purpose of composing. They were outpourings of their bhava and anubhava.

In this context, can someone help me with the meaning of the following songs:

1. Manujudai Putti (Annamacharya)
2. Podagantimayya (Annamacharya)