AKAM 221

Tiṇai:

pālai

Author:

Kayamaṉār

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V. M. Subramanya Ayyar (1975) [IFP, unpublished]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

2005/02/21

Table of contents (by lines):

1-4 The parents of talaivi preparing for her marriage

( 5-9) The talaivaṉ to adorn the talaivi's tresses during elopement.

( 10-13) (Description of the forest region which the talaivi will have to cross.)

Colophon(s):

The companion who consented to talaimakaṉ for elopement told the talaimakaḷ to agree to that.

Syntactical link:

see below

Difficult words:

see below

Variant readings:

see below

Notes:

see below

• Our parents (4)
• drank clarified toddy prepared from buds (1)
• they have heaped and spread sand brought from river in the good house containing decorative art (2)
• and they have made all preparations for the marriage of their daughter having tresses of fine appearance (3)
• The talaivaṉ, chief of the desert tract, who has black cheeks with thick hair and who has intelligence to agree to the elopement and who has a newly made white lance which is in the shape of a straight leaf (5)
• with tender leaves and soft bunches of flowers from which honey flows (8)
• removing them from the white indian oak tree of bulky and cylindrical trunk, which has bending branches (7)
• Therefore (4)
• I willingly consented to (14)
• your elopement with him (9),
• in the difficult desert (14)
• which has forest (13)
• being afraid of the roaring noise produced by the tiger of wide open mouth having missed its elephant as its prey (11)
• burning with intense anger in the extensive area (10)
• where the clouds are at a great height without raining and bamboo have lost their beauty (10).

நமர்(4) எம் மகள் மணனென(3) வதுவை அயந்தனர்(4); அதனால்(4) மதியுடம்பட்ட மை அணற்காளை(6) மெல்லிணர் தளிரொடு கொண்டு(8) நின்முச்சி புனைய(9) அவனொடு(9) (நீ) அருஞ்சுரம் சேறல் யான் அயர்ந்தனென்(14).

• .3. என்மகள்.
• .5. செயலை வெண்வேல்.
• .7. வாங்கு சினைக் கொய்த.
• .8. தேம் பாய் தளிரொடு மெல்லிணர் கொண்டு.

In old Tamil literature the word குழுமல்) is used only for sound produced by tigers.

வதுவை அயர்ந்தனர்: This means that the relations consented to give talaivi in marriage to some other person.