Akam (137)

Tiṇai:: pālai
Author:: uṟaiyūr mutukūttaṉār
(variant reading : mutukuṟṟaṉār)
Translation:: V. M. Subramanya Ayyar (1975) [IFP, unpublished]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:: 2005/03/22
Table of contents (by lines):: (1-4) Description of the desert tract where the male elephants mistake the small pits to be the foot prints of their female ones, out of love; (5-7) The coḻar, their capital, uṟantai, (உறந்தை) and the big river that flows by its side; (8-12) talaivi's forehead which has lost its beauty compared to the ovens without fire, in the garden on the subsequent day after the festival was celebrated in paṅkuṉi (பங்குனி); (12-6) Her shoulders which formerly resembled the bamboos growing in potiyil (பொதியில்) lost their former beauty.
Colophon(s):: The companion told the talaimakaḷ who became changed in mind thinking that talaimakaṉ would part from her.
Syntactical link:: see below
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Variant readings:: see below
Notes: :: see below
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Though our talaivar will not be willing to reach the ways and stay in the desert which has forest rivers, (3-4)
where the male elephants often touch out of love with their trunks the many small water pools (2)
in which the way-farers stirred the mire and drank the water issuing from them, (1)
mistaking them to be the foot prints of their female ones, (2)
your forehead has become changed losing its exquisite beauty (12)
like the ovens without fire in the places of festivals (11)
in the small wood where trees full of flowers and leaves grow densely, (10)
on the following day after the festival celebrated in paṅkuṉi was over (9)
in the cool garden fragrant with honey and full of beautiful white sand (8)
near the big river (Kāviri) which is full with swollen floods and falling banks near uṟantai (உறந்தை) (7)
which has sweet and highly intoxicating liquor (6)
and which belongs to cōḻar of victorious battles and a muracu beaten on occasions when they are victorious in battles (16),
which could be compared to the good, long and beautiful bamboos (15)
that grow in the middle portion of the (poruppu) mountain which belongs to ceḻiyaṉ who has strongly built chariots, (14)
and who is a good warrior and who is the lord of the clear ocean where unperforated pearls are produced (13).
I suffer on account of this (16).

(நம் தலைவர்) அத்தம்(3) சேர்பு ஒல்லாராயினும்(4), நினக்கு(4) நுதல் பெரும்பாழ் கொண்டன்று(12); தோளும்(12) தொல்கவின் தொலைந்தன(16); யான் நோகு(16).