AKAM 216

Tiṇai:

marutam

Author:

aiyūr mutāvaṉār

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V. M. Subramanya Ayyar (1975) [IFP, unpublished]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

2006/04/24

Table of contents (by lines):

1-5) The description of the village belonging to talaivaṉ.

6-7) The harlot accusign talaivi of talking ill about her.

8-12) The chief of Kōcar who make garlands of different flowers.

13-16) talivi's distress if the harlot goes to the street in which talaivi lives.

Colophon(s):

The parattai spoke to those near and dear to her so as to be heard by those near and dear to talaimakaḷ.

Syntactical link:

see below

Difficult words:

see below

Variant readings:

see below

Notes:

see below

• The ladies belonging to the chief of the agricultural tract of cool ghats (4)
• where the girl belonging to the bard caste who angles fish with a small fishing rod to which is attached a string (7)
• thrusts into the mouth (4)
• of her father (3)
• who is drunken after taking toddy strained by the webbed cocoanut fibre (3),
• the murrel fish which was caught near the water-front (2)
• having roasted it in the fire-wood of glabrous mahua (4),
• will speak disparagingly of us as they like (6)
• This is what others say (6).
• If they indulge in such scandal about us and if we deserve it let anything happen to us (6-7).
• If we go to their street they will suffer (16)
• like the suffering of the big male elephant (15)
• on whose chest was thrust (14)
• the white lance to which has been tightly fixed a female screw and which does not break when thrown on enemies (13),
• by ātaṉ eḻiṉi (14)
• who is the chief of celli of great fertility and ever new incomes (12)
• where the many young Kōcar having made chaplets with fetid cassia which was plucked by girls bathing in the sea (8),
• blue nelumbo which was plucked by farmers in the fields (9)
• and arabian jasmine which blossomed in the forest tract affording strong defence (10),
• enjoy adorning them (11)

தண்டுறையூரன் பெண்டிர் எம்மைப்(5) பெட்டாங்கு மொழிப என்ப(6); அவ்வலர்ப்(6) பட்டனம் ஆயின்(7) இண எவன் ஆகியர்(7)? அவர் சேரி யாம் செலின்(16) ஆதன் எழினி(14) வேல்(13) நிறத்து சுழுத்திய(14) களிற்றின் எவ்வம் போல(155) வருந்துவர்(16)

• .1. ஞாண் கொணுண்கோனன் மீன் கொள்.
• .2. தண்புனல்.