AKAM 220

Tiṇai:

neytal

Author:

maturai marutaṉiḷanākaṉār

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V. M. Subramanya Ayyar (1975) [IFP, unpublished]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

2004/05/08

Table of contents (by lines):

(1-2) The companion mentioning about scandalous task

(3-4) The battle at Cellūr

(5-9) The body of the talaivi compared to the sacrifical pillar set up by paracurāmaṉ.

(10-) Talaivan's state

Colophon(s):

The companion appeared before talaimakaṉ who came at the appointed secret place at night and was about to return, and spoke to him.

Syntactical link:

see below

Difficult words:

see below

Variant readings:

see below

Notes:

see below

:

• (Talaiva!) You come in your chariot and whirl (1);
• speak many times words which reveal you humility (2)
• as a result of it scandal is on everyone's lips in the village and street, simultaneously (1)
• (The battle at Cellūr) Having destroyed the row of rutting elephants (4)
• at Cellūr of great beauty, in which the sacrificial fire is always burning (3)
• The glorious and beautiful body of the talaivi which cannot be easily seen by everybody (9)
• is like the tall pillar which is under strict guard (8)
• which is beautiful to look at, and around which a rope is tied (7)
• the sacrifice (6)
• which was performed with great effort long ago, the tall one who annihilated the members of the royal families.
• if you too tremble in your mind every time you think of talaivi's body (10)
• As you stand outside the house for a very long time, and as you have suffered (11)
• In Uṇur where the waves of the roaring sea whirls in the morning, and which has large stocks of old paddy, big makaṉṟil birds which cannot bear separation (12-14)
• By the lovable coition in which you both enter into each other's heart (14)
• and in which your love always is the same and never changing, (14-15)
• Please tell us clearly about any preventive device for the big shoulders which were made beautiful minutely adorning them, (20)
• at the foreshore grove as to be compared to the bamboo of fresh growth (19)
• at the cool caikkāṉam which has fields where corns of paddy are long (18)
• and where (the fishermen) heap on the shore the prawn of bending back along with other kinds of fish (17)
• caught with the help of the beautiful nets to which are fixed straight sticks, in the black backwaters, so that they may not lose their beauty (21-22)

(தலைவ)! நீயே(10) தேரொடு மறுகியும் பணிமொழி பயிற்றியும்(2) நெடியோன்(5) முடித்த வேள்வி(6) நெடுந்தூண் போலக்(8) காணல் ஆகா எழில் ஆகம்(9) உள்ளுதோறும் பனிக்கும் நெஞ்சினையாகி(10) நெடும்புற நிலையினை வருந்தினையாயின்(11) நோலா இரும்புள் போலக்(14) காமர் புணர்இச்சியின்(15) இவள் பணைத் தோள்(20) எழில் சிதையா ஏமம்(21) யாம் தெரியுமாறு சொல்(22)

• .4. குரூ உச்சமம்.
• .11. நிலையின் வருந்தினை.
• .14. இருபுள்.

ADDITIONAL NOTE (JLC):
SEE PARALLEL PASSAGE (4000 tivviya pirapantam) NTP-468 (Charlotte edition, p. 150)
மன் அடங்க மழு வலங்கை "who wielded the axe to subdue insolent kings"

ADDITIONAL NOTE (JLC):
See: "rampart of the permanent fortress"
[AN_392-23] taṉ varampu ākiya maṉ eyil irukkai