AKAM 165

Tiṇai:

pālai

Author:

author's name (not found)

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V. M. Subramanya Ayyar (1975) [IFP, unpublished]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

2002/10/09

Table of contents (by lines):

(1-6) The desert which has tracts of land where the elephant's calf drinks the milk from the she-buffalo

(6-7) The circle of mates feeling distressed for talaivi

(7-12) The sorrow of the foster-mother on behalf of talaivi and her actions.

Colophon(s):

Those who saw the state of the foster-mother who was the cause for her daughter to go to desert spoke thus.

Syntactical link:

see below

Difficult words:

see below

Variant readings:

see below

Notes:

see below

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• The good natured talaivi has crossed and went beyond many tracts of land (6)
• The calf of the elephant, with a red mouth rose quickly (3)
• being afraid of the roaring noise made by the male elephant (2)
• as the young female elephant with a soft head was caught in a deep pit (1)
• It drank the milk of the she-buffalo (5)
• in the old village which has streets full of cow-dung (4)
• the circle of female attendants of talaivi also felt sorry on behalf of her, losing its beauty (7)
• The foster-mother too (7)
• took the doll of talaivi which was lying on the sand which was brought and spread (12)
• She gently rubbed the eyes and forehead of the doll (9)
• and said, `Let my life quit my body !' (8)
• She laid the doll in the shade of chaste tree having a curved stem, which falls in lines , to feel cool (9-10)
• and adorned it with the faded flowers of blue nelumbo (குவளை) which was reared in pots (11)
• She addressed it saying `My dear daughter! Please give me your shoulders' and is weeping embracing it (8).

நாடு பல இறந்த நன்னராட்டிக்கு(6) ஆயமும் ஆழுங்கின்று(7) தாயும்(7);- "இறீஇயர் என் உயிர்' எனக் கூறிப்(8), பாவையைக்(12) கண்ணும் நுதலும் நீவி(9), நிழல் அசை இ(10), மலர்சூட்டி(11); "என் அருமகனே!(13) இன்றோன் தாராய்(8)' என முயங்கினள் ஆழும்(13).

• .8. ஈன்றோட்டாராய்.
• .11. சூடி.
• .13. யென் மருமகளே.

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NOTES

(Note : There is a variant reading as "ஈன்றோட்டாராய்' in line 8. It means `Bring me your mother. Mother here means talaivi)