AKAM 207

Tiṇai:

pālai

Author:

maturai eḻuttaḷaṉ cēntamputaṉār

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V. M. Subramanya Ayyar (1975) [IFP, unpublished]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

2005/02/10

Table of contents (by lines):

(1-7) The branching paths in the desert where salt-sellers carry loads of white crystal salt to the western part, and the paths are strewn with stones in a disorderly manner kicked by hoofs of donkeys which carry them

(8-10) The elephant from which musts have disappeared, stirs with its trunk the well for water (11-3)

My daughter drank the saltish water in the pot not completely filled up (14-7)

Formerly she did not drink the milky mixed with honey even though she was coaxed to drink it, by cutting jokes and adjusting her hairs.

Colophon(s):

The mother (own mother) who caused her daughter to go to the desert spoke to herself thus. variant reading : செவிலி (foster-mother)

Syntactical link:

see below

Difficult words:

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Variant readings:

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Notes:

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• The dreadful branching paths (7)
• which cut across the severely hot desert, (7)
• have ways where gravel stones are lying in a disorderly manner by the kicking of worn-out hoofs (6)
• of donkeys (5)
• which carry on their white backs loads piled one upon another (5)
• by men who perform valourous deeds (4)
• having armed themselves with weapons (4)
• and after keenly observing auguries caused by birds, (3)
• carry the food-stuff of white crystal salt (2)
• from which water has evaporated by being left to dry from the sea where deities reside (1),
• to be sold in the western parts (3).
• In those paths the male elephant with a long tusk (2),
• and temples from which musts on which bees used to hum, have disappeared, (8)
• stirs with its smooth trunk in search of water the well (10),
• as the heat makes it feel parched with thirst (9)
• My daughter with a rejected mind did not drink the milk into which honey was poured and mixed and held in a vessel (14)
• by coaxing her to drink it adjusting her tresses by spreading out and drawing the fingers through them (5)
• and speaking jesting words (15)
• she refused to do so by expressing it in so many words (16).
• Did she drink the incomplete pot of water which was clear and saltish (11)
• and which was got by digging further into the well (12)
• by the one who had no virtue (12)
• when her forehead resembling crescent perspired, heaving a big sigh (12)?

அஞ்சு வருக வலையில்(7) கூவலை(10) அறனிலானன் தோண்டக்(!ஃ) குறைக்குட முகவை நீரை(11), தேம் கலந்து அளைஇயதீம்பாலை ஏந்தி(14), கூழை உளர்ந்து மோழைமை கூறவும்(15), உண்ணாதோள்(17) வெய்துயிர்த்து(12) நுதல் வெயர்ப்ப உண்டனன் கொல்லோ(13)?

• .5. மொழிமை.
• .16. சொல்லாளாகி.