AKAM 071

Tiṇai:

pālai

Author:

antiyiḷaṅkīraṉār 1
(variant reading : antiliḷaṅkiraṉār)

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V. M. Subramanya Ayyar (1975) [IFP, unpublished]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

2002/08/25

Table of contents (by lines):

(1-9) Description of evening

(10-15) talaivi losing her strength

(16-17) talaivi apprehending that to be the time for her death.

Colophon(s):

The companion spoke to the talaimakaḷ who could not bear the separation when (the talaivaṉ parted from her) to acquire wealth.

Syntactical link:

see below

Difficult words:

see below

Variant readings:

see below

Notes:

see below

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• Companion! May you live long (16)
• (In the evening) swarms of bees abandon the flowers in the mountain springs and go to the flowers in the branches of trees, like those unprincipled people without love who leave the people of decreased wealth as they cannot derive any benefit from them and go with a mind in search of people with plenty of wealth (1-4).
• The herds of deer without any fault suffer (5)
• The sky appears red like the lustre of gold which is melted in crucibles and allowed to cool down slowly (5-6)
• The broad and big sky puts forth beautiful clouds of different colours and gives distress which makes one prostrate by removing the wonderful intelligence (8)
• (the knowledge got through the five senses). The evening which brings distress sent away the sun (9)
• It does not stop from giving me pain like those people who throw the sharp lance aiming at the rare chest of people who suffer unbearable pain; even as I am suffering from the separation of my lover (10-12).
• My strength must die diminishing gradually like the vapour that is blown on a mirror which reflects images of objects and which is made perfect without reproach (13-15)
• Is this the time when my life having undergone much suffering, will leave my body like the bird which abandons the tree in which it is living when it is violently shaken by a strong whirlwind? (16-8)

தோழி! வாழி!(16); பழங்கண்மாலை(9) அலைத்தல் ஆனாது(1ஃ); மதுகை மாய்தல் வேண்டும்(15); என்உயிர்(16) துறக்கும் பொழுது(18) இதுகொல்(16)? படர(4), பூப்ப(6), ஈனப்(8) பகல் ஆற்றுப்படுத்த மாலை(9).

• variant readings : Nil

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NOTES

In the 8th line we can take the words as they are வை+அறிவு Then it will mean sharp intelligence.

In line 6. அந்தி may mean also a flower-plant which blossoms at sunset. It is popularly known as "antimantārai' (அந்திமந்தாரை)