AKAM 180

Tiṇai:

neytal

Author:

karuvūrkkaṇṇampaḷaṉar

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V. M. Subramanya Ayyar (1975) [IFP, unpublished]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

2002/10/10

Table of contents (by lines):

(2-7) Talaivaṉ coming in a chariot when talaivi was engaged in play by building toy-houses in the mounds of sand and adorning her head with a garland made of blue nelumbo () flowers

(8-9) He fixed his gaze at the breasts of talaivi thinking about something for a long time.

(10-13) The trees in the foreshore garden

(14-15) The people in the village looking at both the pollen of mast wood tree and talaivi.

Colophon(s):

The companion who acceded to the request of talaivaṉ who begged her humbly for a favour, requested talaivi to agree to that
(2) (Talaimakaḷ) spoke to the companion when talaimakaṉ was standing by the side of the fence.

Syntactical link:

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Difficult words:

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Variant readings:

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Notes:

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• Companion (1)!
• I was engaged in constructing toy-houses in the sand in the garden full of flowers (3),
• having ascended the sand-dune with my circle of female attendants adorned with garlands (2)
• to add beauty to them (1)).
• A person (9)
• came there driving his strong chariot to which galloping horses were yoked (4)
• He adorned me with a garland, without my asking for it, (7)
• so that it fell on my back on which rested my braided hair (7)
• on which bees were humming (6),
• and which was made to blossom by forcefully expanding the petals with fingers (6),
• made of bright blue nelumbo (குவளைமலர்) flowers which grow in abundance in the cool tanks (5).
• He gazed at my young breasts of good growth and was engaged in deep thought about something for a long time (8)
• Afterwards he went away without staying there (9).
• Only on account of that (9)
• the noisy people of this village (15)
• look at me too (15),
• after looking at the minute pollen, golden in colour (14),
• of the mast-wood tree, having curved trunk which stands in the garden (13)
• with the fetid cassia and which is by the side of the fragrant screw-pine (12)
• which has thorny leaves and on which many kinds of birds perch together (11)
• after having stirred the black backwater from which the stench of flesh issues (10)
• This incident affords room for much laughter (1)

தோழி(1) (யான்) ஆயமொடு வண்டல் அயர(3) ஒருவன்(9) தேர் கடைஇ வந்து(4) கண்ணியினைப்(6) பின்னுப்புறம் தாழ்க் கொன்னே சூட்டி(7) இள்முலை நோக்கி, நெடிது நினைந்து(8), பெயர்ந்தனன்(9); அதற்கே(9) இந்த அழுங்கல் ஊர்(15) புன்னைத்(13) தாது நோக்கி(14) என்னும் நோக்கும்(15); இது நகை நனி உடைத்து(1)

• .1. கருவூர்க்கண்ணம் பாணனார், கண்ணன்பரணனார்
• .11. முன்னிடை.

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