AKAM 188

Tiṇai:

Kuṟiñci

Author:

vīrai veḷiyaṉ tittaṉār

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V. M. Subramanya Ayyar (1975) [IFP, unpublished]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

2004/05/08

Table of contents (by lines):

(1-8) Companion addressing the cloud and comparing its thunder and lightning to the sound of war drum and the flash of sword

(8-10) talaivi, adorning herself with the flowers of east indian kino tree and walking in the company of her mates, keeps watch over the field of tiṉai and scares away birds with some contrivances; the companion asking the cloud whether it would pour its rain in the millet farm.

Colophon(s):

The companion spoke these words at night when talaivaṉ was standing outside 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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• Big group of clouds which has drawn water from the big sea ! (1)
• You become dark and rise clock-wise in the high sky and surround the world (2);
• you thunder like the war drum with a leather blanket (3)
• you have the collections of lightnings (7)
• close to each other (6)
• shining like the swords drawn out from the scabbard and brandished in battle by the valorous warriors who oppose their oppenents in the rare wars of (5)
• kings who know their duty impartial (4)
• and who do not fail from the path of virtue (4)
• and whose reign is ... (3)
• Do you make all this noise daily without any useful purpose ? (7-8)
• the daughter of the inhabitants of the hilly tract (குறவர்) (13)
• adorns herself with a garland full of flowers of East indian kino tree (9)
• which blossom like gold (8),
• she walks with beauty (10)
• in the company of her shining circle of female attendants (10);
• she brandishes taḻal (தழல்) and strikes against a log of wood [taṭṭai] (தட்டை) to scare away birds (11);
• she wears a garment made of the beautiful leaves of indian mast tree which are as red as the flames of fire (12).
• Will you shower at least a little amount of your water in the place where millet grows and over which she keeps guard (13-14)
• May you flourish! (14)

கொண்மூவே (1)! (நீதான்) இருண்டு, ஏர்பு, வனைஇ(2), இரங்கி(3) விளங்கும்(6) மின்னுடைக் கருவியையாகி(7), அரவம் கொண்னே செய்தியோ(8)! குறமகள் காக்கும் ஏனல்(13) புறம் மழையும் தருதியோ(14) வாழிய(14).

• .1. பல்கிளைக் கொண்மு.
• .5. பெருஞ்சேய்.
• .11. யோச்சியும்.
• .12. தைஇயும்.