AKAM 095

Tiṇai:

pālai

Author:

orōṭōkattukkantarattaṉār

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V. M. Subramanya Ayyar (1975) [IFP, unpublished]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

2002/07/10

Table of contents (by lines):

(1-5) talaivi regretting the loss of her beauty

(6-10) The desert in which bears eat with great avidity the flowers of mahua tree (இருப்பைமரம்)

(10-15) The mother praying to god and gets tranquility of mind about the secret love and talaivi's difficulty to continue in that.

Colophon(s):

The talaimakaḷ who agreed elopement told her companion.

Syntactical link:

see below

Difficult words:

see below

Variant readings:

see below

Notes:

see below

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• Companion! May you live long! (5)
• My forehead is gradually changing into sallow (1).
• My body which can be compared to fresh leaves is becoming lean and week (2)
• My distress is so apparent that it is known to all (3)
• They will come to an end only by taking away my life (4)
• what else can they do if we consider about them (4-5)?
• In the desert the big herds of female bear which recently gave birth to young ones eats with avidity the heaps of flowers of mahua tree (இருப்பைமரம்) which has a trunk of rough cracked surface (5)
• resemble bubbles in water, which were dropped from the heaping bunches with holes in them (7),
• to make passers-by in those paths avoid travelling that way (8)
• our mother thinks, `The low women are fond of spreading scandal (12)
• and talk ill about my daughter. They are not worthy of the greatness of my daughter and those women do not at all think that it is natural for us to feel sorry for our talaivar who has gone beyond many deserts (10) (சுரங்கள்)
• "our mother prays to god and has understood our state and has cooled down in her strictness (14)
• What will be our position if we continue in this secret love in the presence of the mother ? (15)

தோழி! வாழி!(15); நுதலும் பசந்தன்று(1); என் மேனியும் ஐதாகின்று(2); அவலமும் திகழ் தரும்(3); (இவை) உயிர் கொடு கழியின் அல்லதை நினையின்(4) எவனோ(5)? சுரம்பல கடந்தோர்க்கு இரங்குப என்னார்(10) கௌவை மேவலராகி(11) நிரையப் பெண்டிர் இன்னா கூறு(12) என் மகட்குப் புரைய அல்ல எனப் பரைஇ(13) ஆறிய கொள்கை(14) அன்னை முன்னர் யாம் இதற்படல் என்(15)?

• $$ட.1. பசந்த, பசந்தது.
• .7. தூம்பிடைத்.
• .10. கழிந்தோர்.
• .11. தாற்றிய.

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