AKAM 183

Tiṇai:

pālai

Author:

Karuvūrkkaliṅkattār

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V. M. Subramanya Ayyar (1975) [IFP, unpublished]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

2004/11/02

Table of contents (by lines):

(1-5) Talaivi repeating the consoling words of her comapanion that talaivaṉ would not stay long, and return soon

(6-10) The description of the clouds and the arrival of the rainy season

(10-13) The chill wind in autumn spreading the fragrance of the flowers of bedaly emitic nut tree (பிடவுமரம்) in the evening

(14-15) talaivi saying that she would suffer on behalf of talaivaṉ, with a mind and confused and afflicted by chillness.

Colophon(s):

On seeing the arrival of the season which was fixed by talaivaṉ for his return, talaimakal spoke to her companion.

Syntactical link:

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Difficult words:

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Variant readings:

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Notes:

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• My Companion (5)!
• Though (our lover) has gone to the extensive desert tract which has rough paths (3-4)
• and is in a distant country (4)
• without any grace on me (3)
• so that my eyes coated with collyrium and comparable to blue nelumbo (குவளைமலர்/ flowers are always shedding tears (1),
• and the beautiful lines on the waist which has beautiful yellow spots are decreasing (2).
• You say that he would not stay (5)
• long, (4)
• and would return (5).
• The big group of clouds (9)
• drew into it water in abundance (6),
• having gone to the ocean, in large numbers (6),
• which has a cool ghat (6)
• and rolling waves (7)
• They rose above and went towards the west (7)
• and appeared in several places (8)
• like the pregnant female elephants (8).
• They produced loud thunders (5)
• and gathered in one place to rain (9).
• Though the winter season (10)
• has come in the morning itself, in this manner (10),
• in the evenings (10)
• the chill northern wind belonging to autumn and the dewy season when dew falls in the early part of the night (13)
• wafts (13)
• the limitless fragrance (12)
• of the sharp buds of the cool bedaly emitic nut tree (பிடவுமரம்) (11)
• about to blossom (11),
• which are made to unfold their petals by the bees (12).
• Shall we not undergo suffering on behalf of him who has parted from us, (15)
• with a mind confused and afflicted by the dew (14) ?

தோழி(7)! "(தலைவர்) நத்துறிந்து(3) சேணிடையராயினும்(4) நீடலர்! என்றி(5); கார் காலை வந்தன்று(10); மாலையில்(10) பிடவினது அலரியின்(11) நாற்றத்தை(12) ஊதை தூற்றப்(13) பனி அலைக் கலங்கிய நெஞ்சமொடு(14) நாம் வருந்துவம் அல்லமோ(15)?

• .6. பெருங்கடல் விரைந்துநீர்.