AKAM 224

Tiṇai:

mullai

Author:

āvūr mūlaṅkiḻār makaṉār peruntalai ccāttaṉar
(variant reading in author's name: āvūr kiḻār makaṉ peruñcāttaṉ)

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V. M. Subramanya Ayyar (1975) [IFP, unpublished]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

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Table of contents (by lines):

(2-5) The description of the horses yoked to the chariot. (Lines 6-9) Description of the foam coming out of the mouth of the horses. (Lines 9-14) The description of the sound produced by the wheels in the sand. (Lines 15-18) The state of talaivi in her house.

Colophon(s):

The talaimakaṉ who had finished his duty spoke to the charioteer.

Syntactical link:

see below

Difficult words:

see below

Variant readings:

see below

Notes:

see below

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• The capable charioteer has fixed the reins with the bit of control the speed of the horses (2-3)
• The horses heave a heavy sigh and breathe hot just like the bellows which is pressed with force at the blacksmith's forge (2-3)
• Their heads have been fixed to the bending yoke (4)
• They gallop fastly (4)
• They have such a speed as to be compared to the wind of intense velocity (5)
• The very white foam coming out of the mouth of the horses when they turn about their food from side to side (7)
• is like the big floating butter when milk is churned, and flows behind (7)
• It is scattered into tiny particles like the thread in the web of the spider (8)
• and it makes blots in the chest smeared with sandal paste which has become dry (9)
• The forest which has received fresh beauty after rains, and from which heat has completely gone (10)
• is therefore pleasant to look at (9)
• The chariot which has rotating circular wheels cuts the sand in which lines are visible (14)
• It makes a sound similar to that sound when the house-wife puts the well dried rice into the wooden grinder to grind it (12-13)
• The hopping group of indian elk (a kind of deer) gets frightened by the sound
• The pitiable wife wearing jewels of superb workmanship (18)
• looking out of the extensive and well-guarded house many times (15-16)
• tightening the few round bring jewels from falling (16)
• will be thinking whether our husband who is our partner as dear as life would return (15)
• It is getting dark. Drive the horses to go fast (1)

"தோழி(15)! நம் இன்னுயிர்த்துணை வரும் கொல்' எனப்(15) பல்கால்(16) வியல் நகர் நோக்கி(17) அளியன் திருந்திழை வருந்தும்(18); பொது ழுதும் எல்லின்று; பாக! (தோ) செல்க(1).

• .7. வால்வெணி டெவிட்டல்

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