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Moosina Muthyalu !!!

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It’s been a while since I put my pen to paper. For years now, its been the keyboard and an empty word document ,with which I begin to write. Sometimes its about things that people ask me to and most times its what I find easy to develop on (Laziness!!!). However, it was different this time. I plugged on my ear phones and pressed the play button, as the song sunk into me. The words – the meaning and beneath it, the soul of the song! I found myself looking for a pen and paper almost immediately.   “Moosina Muthyalake” the song which inspired me to pen this post, describes the beauty of the Goddess from the eyes of the great poet Tallapakka Annamacharya fondly known as Annamayya. This poem has an interesting flow, describing the aptness of each adornment of the Goddess Alamelumanga/Lakshmi. What is beautiful is that it applies to any woman, seen through the eyes of an admirer. Unlike many of his compositions, Annamayya does not give away the gist of the poem in the first stan