AKAM 030

Tiṇai:

neytal

Author:

muṭaṅkik kiṭanta neṭuncēralātaṉ
(variant readings: முடங்கிடந்த, முடக்கிடந்த)

Translation:

V. M. Subramanya Ayyar (1975) [IFP, unpublished]

Original MS location:

IFP Library [TA LIT-CL 180 (1)(2)(3)]

Original data entry (VYAPTI format):

Ramya (1999-2000, IFP)

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Table of contents (by lines):

(1-10) Description of the fishermen catching fish and its distribution on the sea-shore

(11-5) The companion questioning talaimakaṉ

Colophon(s):

The companion spoke to the talaimakaṉ who came to the appointed secret place by day.

Syntactical link:

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Difficult words:

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Variant readings:

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Notes:

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• The old and young fishermen who were full of joy as they had joined their comrades and standing close together with their relations hauled in an abundant measure several kinds of fish in their nets of small holes to which was tied tightening big ropes to make the ocean to lose its richness (1-4)
• They dragged the nets in the adjoining shore where fine sand is thick, making an uproarious noise, (7)
• on account of the weight, by joining together like the strong bullocks which are yoked to the carts of salt sellers who carry salt to places inland and who drive them into the empty vessels of supplicants to fill them up, as the farmers who have heaped the paddy in the big treshing floor (would do) (8-9)
• They divide the remainder into several portions and sell them and sleep in the expanse of dense sand of great bank. Chief of that ghat! Will it spoil your greatness (12)
• if you come one day to the cool and fragrant foreshore garden which has mast wood trees which put forth buds like unpolished pearls (buds) (13-14)
• and ask us, `How is the colour of your complexion?' and then go away?' (14-15)

Syntactical link: பரத மாக்கள்(3) கிளையுடன் துவன்றி(4) பகடு ஒப்பக் குழ்இ(6) ஒலிப்ப வாங்கி(7) உழவர் போல(8) வறுங்கலம் மல்க வீஇக்(9) கொள்ளை சாற்றி (10) மணல் துஞ்சும் துறைவ(11)! ஒருநாள்(12) வந்து(14) நும்(14) வண்ணம் எவனோ என்றறறனிர் செலின்(15) பெருமை என்பது கெருமோ(12)!

• no variant readings with the text of the poem.