AKAM 097

Tiṇai:

pālai

Author:

māmūlaṉār
(variant readings: avvaiyār, kuṭavuḻantaṉār)

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V. M. Subramanya Ayyar (1975) [IFP, unpublished]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

2005/03/05

Table of contents (by lines):

(1-8) Carnivorous birds surrounding the flesh left by the tiger, compared to warriors who lifted cattle.

(9-15) talaivi's beauty compared to viyalūr of naṉṉaṉ vēṇmāṇ

(16-23) The difficulty of arresting tears and stopping weeping during the pleasant summer.

Colophon(s):

talaimakaḷ replied to the companion who consoled her by asseverating words

Syntactical link:

see below

Difficult words:

see below

Variant readings:

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Notes:

see below

• Companion (15)!
• You say, `Do not get immersed in sorrow (15)
• daily (8)
• thinking of many things (14)
• on behalf of the cruel talaivar who went into the difficult desert (8);
• (In that desert) many kites which comes from a distance and another different variety called eruvai (எருவை) of big head, (7)
• surround the flesh from which the joints have been removed and from which issues an offensive smell, which has been left by the tiger, partial to flesh (3),
• which overtook the fleeting stag which has dots and specks, make its dried up horn to drop (2)
• in the forest of spurge where it lives (கள்ளியங்காடு) having eaten it those birds are like those warriors with bows that deal death, (6)
• who killed people in the forest fortresses at night and divided among themselves the cows they lifted (4)
• and ate their food of flesh cutting it to pieces in the nook of the rock (5-6).
• You say `you who have a chest with broad breasts can be compared by your beauty to viyalūr which is surrounded by a hedge of creepers of purslane (13-4) (வயலைக்கொடி),
• which belongs to naṉṉaṉ vēṇmāṉ who has an audience hall where he is in a happy mood after consuming liquor (12),
• wears loosening armlets, who patronized out of love of art bards and viṟaliyar (விறலியர்) of curved forearms who hold in their hands a small twig of small joints which has been cut according to measurement having selected, choosing them in the forest where big bamboos grow (11-3)
• what is this? (15)
• In the spring which has pleasant time at the end of the dewy season bottle-flower tree (குரவுமரம்) has put forth blossoms (16-17)
• In the adjoining banks of the broad river where a long stretch of sand is clearly visible under the rippling water, down in the ghat (துறை) with a collection of myrobalam trees (மருதமரம்) adds beauty to it (19)
• in the grove of the mango-trees of great branches where the fresh bunches of flowers are dense, and the tender leaves shine forth, with the white clouds resembling smoke seem to crawl on their branches; (20-21)
• cuckoo (குயில்) which enjoys the pleasure sings merrily. Is it easy for those who hear the song of the cuckoo (குயில்) (23)
• to arrest tears from flowing down? (16)

"தோழி(15)! அருஞ்சுரம் இறந்த கொடியோர்க்கு(8) வியலூர் அன்ன நின்(13) அலர் முலை ஆகம் புலம்ப(14) ஆழேல் என்றி(15); என்?(15) வேனிலில்(17) யாற்றின் அடைகரைப் பொங்கரில்(21) மஞ்சுஊரக்(22) குயில் அகவும் குரல் கேட்போர்க்குக்(23) கண்பனி நிறுத்தல் எளிதோ(16)?

• .6. கோள்வலாட.
• .9. கொண்டினுத்.
• .11. பண்பிற்.
• .14. கைமலியாகம்
• .14. பலபுலந்.
• .17. அரும்பவிழ்.
• .19. மருதமொடிகல்கொள.
• .20. மாத்தினிணர்ததை.