AKAM 124

Tiṇai:

mullai

Author:

maturai aṟuvai vāṇikaṉ iḷavēṭṭaṉār

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V. M. Subramanya Ayyar (1975) [IFP, unpublished]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

2004/10/14

Table of contents (by lines):

(1-3) The enemies offering tribute to the king

(4-5) The king is definite to return to his country in that case.

(6-13) talaivaṉ requesting charioteer to drive fast the chariot so that he and talaivi may be rid of their respective sorrows.

(14-6) The description of the mansion where talaivi dwells.

Colophon(s):

Talaimakaṉ spoke to the charioteer

Syntactical link:

see below

Difficult words:

see below

Variant readings:

see below

Notes:

see below

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• (Charioteer) If the enemies came carrying ornaments of exquisite workmanship and offered them as tribute along with male elephants and expressed their submissiueness and spoke words accepting his suzerainty and requested him, `Please return to your country' (1-3),
• our king will quite definitely return to his capital today itself (5)
• along with the army assembled in large numbers for the marching of which even this wide world has not enough paths (4-5)
• As the time limit set for our return is drawing near (13)
• you too (8)
• drive the (13)
• horses which have an eminent gait liked by expert driving hands, trimmed manes, and a decorated saddle made of gold which glitters like wavy (9-10)
• lightning so that our lady-love who lies on a bed of many layers in our famous mansion of several storeys and who is without any sulkiness, may rejoice, war-camps at the battle-field (8)
• and to make the bees which enjoy the pollen in the flowers of green creepers of arabian jasmine (முல்லைக்கொடி) fertility, in the long way which is fragrant, due to them, to scatter pell-mell in all directions, and I may reach in the evening the place which has high fortified bastions with casemates intended for shooting arrows from within built in rows where the sweet music produced by the shepherds who play upon the beautiful flute in the evening can be heard in the expansive open terrace where people enjoy moonlight

(பாக)! நண்ணார்(1) திறை கொடுத்துச்(2) "சென்றீக' என்ப ஆயின்(3), வேந்தனும்(3) தானையொடு இன்றே புகுதல் வாய்வது(5); (ஆதலின்) நீயும்(8) காதலி இனது உறவும்(7), வருத்தம் வீடவும்(8) புரவியை(10) வண்டுஇரிய(12), நெடுமதில் ஊர்(16) மாலையில் எய்தக் கடவுமதி(13).

• .6. மாநகர்.

(Notes In the 4th line all other have adopted the readings வகுத்துறாஅ and வருத்துறாஅ. But I have taken the word as வகுந்துறாஅ.

வகுந்து is a word that occurs in malaipaṭukaṭam (மலைபடுகடாம்), l.242 and later in cilappatikāram, ll-167, 15-17 Then it would mean that the army was so numerous that even the wide world was insufficient for its movement. This idea is found in kaliñkattupparaṇi stanza, 348.

The Murray & Co., edition has embodied the reading "வகுந்துறாஅ' after much discussion. The same idea about horses is found in this anthology, stanza 104-5-6; For the sound produced by beating the maracu by the evening guards.