AKAM 176

Tiṇai:

marutam

Author:

marutam pāṭīya ilaṅkaṭuṅkō

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V. M. Subramanya Ayyar (1975) [IFP, unpublished]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

Date of last revision:

2004/01/22

Table of contents (by lines):

(1-7) The description of the lotus and its parts in the paddy-field

(8-10) Description of the village of which the talaivaṉ is the chief

(13-18) companion questioning talaimakaṉ if the harlot who had adorned herself for the women's dance clasping hands, got angry with him when he released himself from the tight hold of harlot

(19-21) harlot has no obligations similar to those of a wife

(21-26) harlot searching for talaivaṉ in the whole village with weeping and anger

Colophon(s):

The companion refused mediation on behalf of talaimakaṉ

Syntactical link:

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Difficult words:

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Variant readings:

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Notes:

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• In the fields where lotus flowers have blossomed and birds make a loud chirping noise (7);
• many flowers look bright like smiling faces (6)
• in between the fertile buds which rise above the surface of water like the raised stake for impaling criminals (5)
• They grow by the side of green leaves which are as large as the ears of elephants (4)
• (The flowers) have a cylindrical tubular stem which can be compared to a bamboo (3)
• They have ripening bulbous roots which split the earth and go deep into it (2)
• in the widening expanse of water comparable to the sea (1)
• Chief of that village having such fields (12)
• where the cool crab which has long tall eyes comparable to the buds of margosa (8)
• being afraid of the white crane in search of its prey, (9)
• hides itself into the hole in the earth full of water (12),
• running quickly to draw lines like yellow spreading lines on the breasts of women (11)
• in the mass of black muddy mire (16)
• which has by its indian jalap (பகன்றை) growing fertile (9-10).
• Your loving wife who has beautiful jewels, and eyes coated with collyrium and comparable to flowers, (16)
• became great bedecked with the adornments befitting the dance to be performed in the company of ladies clasping their hands during the festival (15),
• having dressed herself with the garment made of leaves knitted with beautiful flowers of water lily (ஆம்பல் மலர்) (14)
• and fastening it with the fertile creeper of purslane (பசலைக்கொடி) which climbs upon the tree which grows beautifully in houses (13). She got enraged (18) even for the trifle of releasing the rigorous grip of your hands (17) which she searching to see you about whom the whole village gossips (26) languishing (22) and weeping as to spoil the beauty of her face from which a portrait can be drawn, possessing yellow spots which resemble the colour of molten gold cast into a mould (28). Her soft fingers become red as she snaps them, many times (23-4)
• teeth which have lost their sharpness and become blunt as she grinds them by twisting them. (24-5)
• What duties has your beloved wife got like us (18)
• giving birth to a son with a shabby tuft (19)
• like the hair-plume on a horses head and remaining lonely without your company in the long mansion which has plenty of paddy. (20)

ஊர(12)! மாணிழை(16) தன் முன்கை(16) தொடக்கிய நெடுந் தொடர் விடுத்தது(17) உடன்றளை�ய்(18) அழுதளன் ரங்கி(22), ஊர்முழுதும் நவலும் நின்னைக்காணிய சென்மே(26)!; (ஆகலின்) நின் காதலி (ஆய அவள்) எம் போல்(18) புதல்வற் பயந்து(19) நெடு நகர் நின் இன்று உறைய(20) என்ன கடத்தளோ(21)?

variant reading நெடுங்கோ.

(Notes. variant reading $$ட.13.மனை நடு This reading is preferable to மனை நடு as "மனை நடு வயலை வேழம் சுற்றும்'' 11-1) is found in aiṅkuṟunūṟu. Both peraciriyar and nacciṉārkkiniyar have taken this stanza to be the words of talaivi).

variant readings :- $$ட.10.ஒலிந்த. $$ட.13.மனைநடு. $$ட$$ட.20-21.நின்னின்றுடையாளென்ன. $$ட.22.மற்பிற