AKAM 065

Tiṇai:

pālai

Author:

māmūlaṉār

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V. M. Subramanya Ayyar (1975) [IFP, unpublished]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

HTML conversion, text revising & editing:

jlc

Date of last revision:

2002/10/13

Table of contents (by lines):

(1-5) talaivi will be free from so many wounding words.

(6-9) The joy of supplicants who praise Utiyañcēral, compared to her joy and the reason for that

(18-17) Description of the desert

(18-20) talaivaṉ's decision about elopement.

Colophon(s):

The companion told the talaimakaḷ who was changed in mind, about the decision of talaimakaṉ in favour of elopement.

Syntactical link:

see below

Difficult words:

see below

Variant readings:

see below

Notes:

see below

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• Friend (7)!
• Be glad (7)
• like those supplicants who approached Utiyañcēral who widened the frontiers of his country, singing his praise (6-7)
• In each and every mountain (9)
• the big bamboos rub against one another and the big fire produced by it is increased by the blowing wind (10)
• It resembles exactly the big lamps that are kept in the bending fishing boats of the fishermen who catch fish, (11)
• and which are seen on the waves of the sea which seem to touch the sky (12).
• In the expanse of the forest where yā (யாமரம்) trees grow to a great height, (13)
• where the male elephants which have tusks raised and which account for the eminence of the forest keep guard in the paths where bamboos are bending and which have ups and downs on the rocks (15-17)
• Those paths (15)
• can be compared to walking on the back of an elephant which became lean on account of lack of food (14)
• our talaivar once abandoned his departure towards desert thinking that it was a difficult task (20)
• for ladies (19)
• who have bamboo-like shoulders, (17)
• five different kinds of arranging the fragrant tresses, (18)
• round breasts having beauty spots, (18)
• and eyes coated with collyrium and resembling flowers (19)
• Lady with luxuriant tresses (8)!
• Today he desires to go (9)
• along with us (8)
• We shall escape from the bother of harsh words of our mother who speaks concealing her knowledge of our thought with reservations in her mind. (1-2)
• We shall also be free from the scandal of the ladies in our street who speak lies which do not possess by their nature (3-4)
• even a little amount (2)
• of affection (3).

பொம்மல் ஓதி(8)! தோழி(7)! அவர்(7) அருஞ்சுரம்(17) மகளிர்க்கு(19) அரியவாலென அழுங்கிய செலவை(20) இன்று(9) நம்மொடு(8) செலவயர்ந்தனர்(9); (ஆதலின்) அன்னை சொல்லும் உய்கம்(2); சேரிப் பெண்டிர் கௌவையும் ஒழிகம்(4); உதியர்சேரிற்(5) பாடிச்சென்ற பரிசிலர் போல(6) இனி உப்(7); மலைதொறும்(9); கூரெரி(10) நரிசுடர்(11) புணரிமிசைக்கண்டாங்குத்(12) தோன்றும்(13) ந�ந்தலைச்சிறு(13) சிறுநெறி(15) ஒருத்தல்(16) ஆடிகடிகொன்னாம் அருஞ்சுரம்(17).

• .14. உறுவல்யானை, வெருவச்சென்.

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