AKAM 094

Tiṇai:

mullai

Author:

naṉpalūrc ciṟumētāviyār

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V. M. Subramanya Ayyar (1975) [IFP, unpublished]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

Date of last revision:

2004/10/15

Table of contents (by lines):

(1-13) Description of night

(4-7) Shepherds warming themselves to dispel cold

(8-12) The sound produced by the shepherds and people who keep watch over millet farms, combining together in the tract situated in the forest

(12-14) Description of talaivi

Colophon(s):

(1) The talaimakaṉ who was returning after finishing his duty spoke to the charioteer.
(2) Talaimakaṉ spoke to his confidential friend.

Syntactical link:

see below

Difficult words:

see below

Variant readings:

see below

Notes:

see below

• (Charioteer!) In the darkness at dead of night (3)
• the white flowers of leather berried birdweed (முசுண்டை-முசுட்டை) which has leaves heaping at the end (2)
• and which grows luxuriantly (1)
• in the adjoining spaces in great quantity near the peak where honey-combs are built (by bees), (1)
• blossom like the stars in the sky (3)
• The shepherd who has on his back a mat of palmyra leaves and who has collected the young kids of sheep has adorned himself with a chaplet from which water is dripping, on which bees hum swarming (6)
• and which is made by him in combination with the cool and fragrant arabian jasmine (முல்லைப்பூ,) with white species of gloriosa superba (தோன்றிப்பூ) flowers, (5)
• warms his palms in the firebrand which is soft and makes a long whistling sound to scare away the small foxes in the thick darkness (8).
• That sound combines with the sound of the big black horn (11)
• which the people who keep guard over the ripe millet farm (10) (தினைப்புனம்)
• make to drive away the big herd of wild pigs (9)
• of small eyes, anticipating the time of their coming into the fields, (10),
• and sounds simultaneously (11),
• in the region consisting of hard soil of jungle tracts (12)
• The dwelling place of the talaivi who wears flawless ornaments and has black, luxuriant tresses (14),
• exceedingly gentle nature, affection (13)
• born of desire (12)
• for a thing one wishes to have, is situated inside that country, (12)
• (So, drive the chariot speedily)

திருந்திழை ஊர்(14) கங்குலில்(3) இடையன்(4) குறுநரி உளம்பும் நெடுவிளி(8) புனம் காவலர் ஊதும்(10) கோட்டு ஓசை யொடு ஒருங்கு வந்து இசைக்கும்(11) காட்டு நாட்டதுலே(12); (ஆதலின் தேரை விரைந்து செலுத்துவாயாக)

• 1.3. வான்பூத்தன்ன.
• .9. கூடிய. கடியு.