It's in pantuvarali raga,the melakartha name is kaamavardhini.this devaranama of shri.purandaradasaru, mentions about the importance of a guru in everybody's life! Without guru"s blessings, guidance, teaching, one cannot reach the noble qualities!
Raga: Tala: Composer: Sri Purandara Dasar Language: Kannada Translation: P.R.Ramachander and Chakravarthi Madhusudana ugAbhOga: satata gaNa nAtha siddhiyanIva kAryadali mati prErisuvaLu pArvati dEviyu mukuti pathake manavIva mahA rudradEva bhakutidAyakaLu bhAratI dEvi yukuta shAstragaLalli vanaja sambhavanarasi satkarmagaLa naDesi sajnAna matiyittu gati pAlisuva namma pavamAnanu cittadali Ananda sukhanIvaLu ramA bhakta janarodeya namma purandara viTTalanu satata ivaroLu nindI naDesuvanu Pallavi Gurvina gulaamanaaguva thanaka, Doreyadanna mukuthi Anupallavi Pari pari aneka shaastravanodi, Vyarthathavaayithu bhakuthi Charanam 1. Aaru shaastravanodi darenu, Mooraru puraaNava mugisadarenu, Sadhu sajjanara sanghava maaDade, Dheeranendu ta tirugidarenu 2. KoraLaLu maaleya dharisidarenu, BeraLoLu japa mani tiruhidarenu, MaralLi maraLitha horalLi boodhiyoLu, MaruLanandadi tirugidarenu. 3. Naariya bhoga alisidarenu, Shareera sukhavanu biDisadarenu, Maara janaka siri purandara vittalana, Seri konDu paDeyuva thanaka. English Translation Pallavi Till you become a slave of the Guru, You would not get salvation Anupallavi Reading of various shaastras, Would only lead to wasted devotion. Charanam 1. What if you have read the six different shaastras, What if you complete reading the eighteen Puranas, And what if you go on roaming as a courageous one, Without enjoying the company of good people. 2. What if you wear a garland, What if you turn the beads of a rosary by fingers, What if you go on wandering like a mad man, After rolling repeatedly in ash. 3. What if you give up pleasure given by woman, What if you give up the pleasures of the body, Till you attain and join with, Purandara Vittala the father of Manmatha.
Given that kannada is basically derived from Tamil (like all dravidian languages) someone like MS should have no problem with the La. Let's hear the kannadigas say ழ.
Let's hear tamil people say ழ properly first.. Being kannadiga i can pronounce ழ perfectly, because i can also speak malayalam and it made it easy for me... Not a tough thing to pronounce anything... likewise any Tamils are there who speak pakka kannada more than kannadigas