AKAM 088

Tiṇai:

Kuṟiñci

Author:

īḻattuppūtaṉ tēvaṉār
(variant reading: ēṟattuppūtaṉ tēvaṉ)

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V. M. Subramanya Ayyar (1975) [IFP, unpublished]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

2003/04/06

Date of last revision:

Table of contents (by lines):

(1-7) talaivaṉ coming at night with the help of the light lit by the hunter to scare away the wild pig

(8-9) description of the elephant that killed a tiger

(10-15) The path in which talaivaṉ returned.

Colophon(s):

The companion spoke thus when the talaimakaṉ who came to the appointed secret place at night and was standing outside the fence.

Syntactical link:

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Difficult words:

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Variant readings:

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Notes:

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• Our good-natured talaivaṉ came at night and removed our sorrow which made us tremble, (7)
• seeing the way with the help of the light of the fire that was lit by the forest-dweller of strong hands, who keeps watch over the millet farm on his elevated platform (5-6)
• anticipating arrival of the young wild pigs which approach the field after listening with keen attention to the sound produced by the lizard with splitting mouth, (3)
• in an auspicious place (2-3),
• in order to eat the big ears of luxurious red millet (செந்தினை) which grew tall and got bent by the weight of the grains (2)
• which grew abundantly in the old forest tract of high level ground under cultivation (1).
• Did he travel all alone in the path (8)
• which is not fit for travelling, (15)
• which has ant-hills on which the marks of the bear of bended fingers, (14)
• which crowd in large numbers and dig them for their food and incidentally kills the serpents in them in the small forest where bamboos grow densely (13)?
• (In that forest) the acuṇam (அசுமை) that lives in the big cave of cleft rocks listens attentively (12)
• to the humming of the swarms of bees of black wings that settle on the beautiful fluid of must of the elephant having a big trunk which secretes profusely in its cheeks and falls (10)
• and which killed in a hill a big tiger (9).

பன்றி வருதிறம் நோக்கிக்(4) காவைன் கழுது இசைச் கொளீஇய(5) விளக்கம் நோக்கி வந்து, நம்(6) துயர்களைந்த நன்னராளன்(7) வழக்ககு நெறிச்(15) சென்றனன் செல்லலோ(8)?

• 1.3. காம்பு பயில்