AN 70 Maturait Tamiḻkkūttaṉār Kaṭuvaṉ Maḷḷaṉār: the friend

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{{colophon}}: talaimakaṉ varaivu malintamai (G1+2: malinta) tōḻi talaimakaṭkuc colliyatu.{{/colophon}}

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1. koṭuntimiṟ paratavar vēṭṭam vāytteṉa
2. virumpulāk kamaḻuñ ciṟukuṭip pākkattuk
3. kuṟuṅka ṇavvalaip payampā rāṭṭik
4. koḻuṅka ṇayilai pakukkun tuṟaiva
5. ṉammoṭu puṇarnta kēṇmai muṉṉē 5
6. yalarvāyp peṇṭi rampa ṟūṟṟap
7. palarumāṅ kaṟintaṉar maṉṉē yiṉiyē
8. vatuvai kūṭiya piṉṟaip putuvatu
9. poṉvī ñāḻaloṭu puṉṉai varikkuṅ
10. kāṉalam peruntuṟaik kaviṉi mānīrp 10
11. pācaṭaik kalitta kaṇaikkā ṉeytal
12. viḻavaṇi makaḷir taḻaiyaṇik kūṭṭum
13. veṉvēṟ kavuriyar toṉmutu kōṭi
14. muḻaṅkirum pauva miraṅku muṉṟuṟai
15. velpō rirāma ṉarumaṟaik kavitta 15
16. palvī ḻālam pōla
17. voliyavin taṉṟiv vaḻuṅka lūrē.

{{Critical Apparatus}}

{LOZ} 1 paratavar RK; para__var G2
{LOZ} 1 vēṭṭam vāytteṉa RK; veṭṭa māytteṉa G1+2
{LOZ} 3 kuṟuṅka RK; kuṟuṅ_ EC
{LOZ} 4 ṇayilai RK; ṇayiṟai(p) G1()+2
{LOZ} 6 peṇṭi ... ṟūṟṟap RK; peṇṭī ... tūṟṟap G1+2
{LOZ} 7 palarumāṅ RK; palarāṅ G1+2
{LOZ} 10 kaviṉi G1+2, VP, ER; kaḻaṉi RK, SS, EC
{LOZ} 12 taḻaiyaṇik RK; taḻaiyaṇi G1+2
{LOZ} 13 veṉvēṟ RK; veṉyeṟ G2
{LOZ} 13 kavuriyar RK; kaviriyar RKv, SAv, EC; kaviriyyar G1+2
{LOZ} 14 pauva RK; peḻava G1+2
{LOZ} 15 kavitta RK; kavinta G1+2
{LOZ} 17 voliyavin G1+2; yoliyavin RK
{{/Critical Apparatus}}

{{Word-for-word Gloss}}

1. bent boat fishermen(h.) hunt reached say
2. big fish-stench being-fragrant- small home village-
3. short eye pretty net yield praised
4. rich eye Ayilai-fish distributing- ghat-he
5. us-with united- intimacy in-front{X}ē{/X} 5
6. gossip mouth women scandal spread(inf.)
7. many(h.){X}um{/X} thus they-knew(h.){X}maṉṉē{/X} now{X}ē{/X}
8. wedding met- after new-it
9. gold blossom Ñāḻal-tree-with Puṉṉai-tree drawing-
10. seashore-grove{X}am{/X} big ghat been-beautiful big/dark water 10
11. green leaf swollen- cylinder leg blue-water-lily
12. festival adorn- women foliage adornment combining-
13. victory spear Pāṇṭiyas(h.)? old old Kōṭi
14. thunder- big/dark ocean sounding- front ghat
15. overcome- battle Irāmaṉ difficult secret covered- 15
16. many aerial-root Banyan-tree be-similar
17. sound it-ceased this- noise village{X}ē{/X}.

{{Readable Translation}}

• Even before many[FNote_21] knew well indeed
• of the intimacy in which united with us
• the man from the ghat, where they distribute the rich-eyed(?) Ayilai fish,
• praising the yield of the pretty nets with small openings,
• in the village with small homes that smell greatly(?) of fish,
• since the fishermen with bent boats succeeded in hunting,
• so that gossip-mouthed women were spreading scandal. Now,
• after the wedding has been agreed upon(?), newly,[FNote_22]
• sound has ceased in this noisy village,
• as in the Banyan tree with many aerial roots
• that covered the rare secret of Rāma of victorious battle
• on the front ghat, where the the thundering great ocean is sounding,
• in venerable old Kōṭi of the Pāṇṭiyas with overcoming spears,
• where women decorating themselves for the festival add foliage to [their] decoration
• of the round-stemmed blue water-lily grown from green leaves
• in the dark water, beautifying(?)[FNote_23] the big seashore grove ghat,
• where the Puṉṉai trees form lines(?)[FNote_24] with the gold-blossomed Ñāḻal.