AKAM 225

Tiṇai:

pālai

Author:

eyiṉantai makaṉār iḷaṅkīraṉār

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V. M. Subramanya Ayyar (1975) [IFP, unpublished]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

2006/03/28

Table of contents (by lines):

(1-4) talaivaṉ embracing talaivi

(5-14) Description of the desert.

(15-18) The state of talaivaṉ

Colophon(s):

Talaimakaṉ spoke to his mind which was determined to acquire wealth.

Syntactical link

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Difficult words

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Variant readings:

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Notes:

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• My mind (14) !
• Having embraced each other by reciprocating (3)
• the qualities of love, being blind to each other's frailties and faults, softness, good conduct (1),
• sweet words that are capable of causing the bones to lose their stiffness and other desirable qualities being equal on both sides (2)
• we will stay today in our house (4)
• Tomorrow (4)
• we will stay alone at the small hamlet inhabited by good-natured people, where rain has forgotten its duty of pouring even drops of water (13);
• there the closed bunches of mahua tree covered by tender leaves (11)
• which have blossomed, appear like the arrows collected and placed in a quiver, whose heads are open to view (10),
• fall on the red ground (12)
• in the difficult desert where teak trees grow thickly and is full of forests having boulders (9).
• The flowers drop like pearls in which small holes have been made (12);
• there the western wind that enters into, and passes out of, the holes made by bees in waving bamboos on which shrubs spread, makes a new sound (5-6)
• akin to that of the music produced by cowherds holding a long stick, in their flutes when they follow the herd of cows (7)
• which go to drink water (7)
• We will be thinking of the looks showing a confused mind and sulks (17)
• of our loving wife (16)
• who wears on her wrist tight fitting bangles (16)
• and who has jet-black tresses flowing on the back , like the sable cloud (15)
• and decorated with luxuriant flowers (14)

நெஞ்சே(14)! (தலைவியுடன்) ஓராங்கு முயங்கி(3) இன்றே இவணமாகி நாளை(4) அருஞ்சுரத்துச்(9) சீறூர்(13) காதலி(16) நோக்கமும் புலவியும் நினைந்து(17) சேக்குவம் கொல்லோ(14)?

• nil

ll.10-11. cf. akam, 9 = 1-3.