AKAM 080

Tiṇai:

neytal

Author:

maruṅkūr kiḻār peruṅkaṇṇaṉār
(variant reading: nakkīrar)

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V. M. Subramanya Ayyar (1975) [IFP, unpublished]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

2002/10/20

Table of contents (by lines):

(1-3) talaivaṉ coming in the dangerous path at night

(4-5) talaivi always easily available

(5-6) talaivi keeping watch over fish left to dry.

(7-13) Companion requesting talaivaṉ to come in the day in his chariot to the seashore.

Colophon(s):

Syntactical link:

see below

Difficult words:

see below

Variant readings:

see below

Notes:

see below

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• Chief of the cool maritime tract! (3)
• You came (3)
• in the night (2)
• having crossed over the difficult, narrow and black backwater where sharks in company with crocodiles of bending legs move about (1).
• You come by day in the shore garden of beautiful mast-wood trees (புன்னைமரம்) (13)
• from which cool, fragrant fresh and golden pollen (12)
• of the blossomed bunches of brilliant colour which shine with lustrous leaves drop, (12)
• by driving your tall chariot drawn by horses of the same kind which are attached to it (10)
• and which wear strings of small metal bells (சதங்கை மாலை) (10)
• when the wheels cut the soft and red-coloured creeper (9)
• of hare-leaf (அடும்பு) which has cloven leaves and many bright flowers (8)
• and which grows in the banks adjoining the ancient sea near which water-thorn (முண்டகம்-நீர் முள்ளி) a plant with thorns prospers (7)
• How are we inaccessible to you ? (4)
• We will scare away the birds which settle on, and steal, the different kinds of fish left to dry (6),
• which were caught (5)
• by our father (4)
• by stirring the expanse of the sea having waves (5)

சேர்ப்ப(3)! இருங்கழி இட்டுச்சுரம் நீந்தி இரவின்(2) வந்தோய்(3)! நெடுந்தேர் கடைஇ(10)ப் புன்னையங்கானல் பகல் வந்தீமே(13). மீன் உணங்கல் படுபுள் ஓப்புதும்(6); யாம் நினக்கு எவன் அரியம்(4)?.