AKAM 125

Tiṇai:

pālai

Author:

Paraṇar

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V. M. Subramanya Ayyar (1975) [IFP, unpublished]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

2002/07/12

Table of contents (by lines):

(1-2) The purpose of talaivaṉ's parting

(3-4) the white flowers of iṅkai (ஈங்கை) compared to hails

(5-6) Blue nelumbo (குவளை) flowers blossoming like the front of the neck of the blood-sucker

(7-10) The clouds which poured heavily and emptied themselves compared to elephants whose must are dried up

(11-13) The suffering undergone by talaivi on account of the chill wind at dead of night

(14-15) talaivaṉ gone for further studies which deserve worship with both hands and are endowed with divinity

(18-20) Peruvaḷakkarikal won a victory at vākai (வாகை) where nine kings fled abandoning their nine umbrellas on the battle-field

(20-21) The northern wind would flee like those kings who were devoid of greatness

Colophon(s):

(1) The companion who knew the return of talaimakaṉ after the completion of duties, informed talaimakaḷ

(2) VARIANT: The talaimakaḷ spoke to the companion to make her understand that talaimakaṉ returned after completion of his duties

Syntactical link:

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Difficult words:

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Variant readings:

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Notes:

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• Northern wind! (22)
• You blow chill and inflict pain on me benumbing me so as to be hated by me even when there is no enmity between us (13),
• without pondering about the power of endurance of lonely people, (12)
• in the darkness of midnight when the fall of dew makes one suffer (11)
• At that time white flowers of īṇkai (ஈங்கை) of fully developed buds which can be compared to the hard seeds of irā (இராமரம்): a kind of tree) scatters everywhere like the hails (3-4).
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• the buds of blue nelumbo {kuvaḷai}} which have abundant pollen and which loosen the tight bind of their petals and blossoms resembling the front side of the black neck of the blood-sucker which has a sharp tail (5-6)
• The fast-moving clouds which have unburdened themselves after raining and became poor (9)
• wander in all the directions of the sky which is clear blue in colour (10)
• like the elephants whose musts {{matanīr}} have become dried up, which have deep and big mouths, broad feet and sleepless tender eyes (7-8)
• If the talaivar who has parted from me to supplement the many wants of the life of the house-holder (1)
• to make my bangles which are worn on the shoulders and which were made from conch by cutting them with files, to loosen and fall from their position (2)
• without staying there, who has gone for further studies endowed with full divinity, and worthy of worship return quickly (14-15)
• then, the Northern wind! (22)
• you will sustain defeat and flee fast from this place (22)
• like those kings without valour who could not even stand before Peruvaḷakkarikāl at the battlefield of vākai {{vākai}} (18-4)
• and fled abandoning their nine umbrellas of royal insignia in broad daylight (20)
• so that he could achieve an easy victory (19)
• That Karikāl arrived at that battlefield according to his will with an army striking terror into the minds of his enemies (17),
• including cavalry consisting of fine horses of quick gallop, and famous with their broad hair plumes adorned on their heads (16-17)

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{{vāṭai (22)! nī (22) kuvaḷaip pōtu aviḻak (6) koṇmū (2) uḻitara (10) pāṉāṭ kaṅkul (11) muṉiya alaitti (13) cey viṉai maruṅkil ceṉṟōr variṉ (15) karikāl (18) vākaip paṟantalai ā peṟa (19) oṉpatu kuṭaiyum naṇpakaḷ oḻitta (20) pīṭu il maṉṉar pōla (21) emakkut (22) (tōṟṟu) ōṭuvai}}

[THE FOLLOWING PART HAD NOT BEEN TYPED but was not easy to decipher, so that I did not type it (jlc)]

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