AKAM 001

Akanāṉūṟu-1 (pālai)

• Lines 1-4. Potiṉi of āvi.
• Lines 5-6. The words of talaivaṉ.
• (8-10) Description of the desert

Translation

• The forest has the appearance of the sea-shore (19).
• It has in it the white torn flowers of horse radish tree (முருங்கை) of waving branches which has no fibre in the bark (15-16).
• Those flowers are swept by the violent whirlwind and scattered (everywhere) (1).
• They make a loud noise (17).
• They rise like the tiny particles of water on the crest of the waves which break (on the shore) (18).
• That forest has got withered trees whose shade became decreased because of the hot rays of the sun which are like fire and so scorching as to remove all verdure and to form cracks in the soil (9-11).
• The rocks are scorched and (therefore) even in the springs which are completely dried, the paddy that is strewn there gets fired (11-13).
• As nobody is travelling in the place the highway robbers remain idle in the paths of the desert which have lost their splendour (14-15).
• Our lover crossed such a forest (19).
• My friend! Did he who go to earn gold jewels and other forms of wealth from a distant country and thereby made our big shoulders like beautiful bamboos become lean and weak, and forget that word, ""we won't get separated and will be united like the whet-stone which is made by the low whet stone maker by mixing wax with powdered stone (5-7),''
• which he mentioned (to me) in that place of Potiṉi (பொதினி) which has elephants that have tusks that are cut and made beautiful (4)
• and belongs to the famous Āvi who is a vēḷ (வேள்) (3)
• gives a good fight like that strike terror (2),
• bright anklets, and chaplets which blossom (for the bees to throng on them) on account of the thronging of bees on them (1)

The talaimakal who could not bear her sorrow during separation spoke to the companion.

(variant reading) தலைமகன் பிரிவின்கன் தலைமகள் தோழி.....

Māmūlaṉar

(Note : (4) அறுகோட்டு can be split into அறுகு ஓட்டு;
It will mean: That which drives away the lion.

உருவ: may also be taken to mean beautiful : (2)

Syntacticcal link : தோழி (7)! சேய் நாட்டு (8), வெறுக்கை தருமார் ($$ய) தோள் நெகிழக் (8) காடு இறந்தோர் (19) பிரியலம் என்ற சொல் (6) மறந்தனர் கொல் (7)?

variant readings : Nil.