AKAM 226

Tiṇai:

marutam

Author:

paraṇar

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V. M. Subramanya Ayyar (1975) [IFP, unpublished]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

2006/05/03

Table of contents (by lines):

1-2) Companion reprimanding talaivaṉ.

3-8) Description of the ghat at Kaḻār

Colophon(s):

The companion refused to intercede as messenger on behalf of talaimakaṉ

Syntactical link:

see below

Difficult words:

see below

Variant readings:

see below

Notes:

see below

• Chief of the village which always yields fresh income (2)
• Do not speak your deceptive words (1)
• I won't take them as truth (1)
• You have definitely no modesty. (2)
• In the Kāviri which brought floods at day-break (10)
• carrying white myrobalam trees along with glabrous mahua trees having them uprooted (9)
• at the ghat of Kaḻār belonging to matti (8)
• who has an infantry of lancers (8),
• who is the lord of fishermen, a good archer who can pierce through several aims by one arrow, and has strong shoulders (7)
• (At Kaḻār) girls wearing small bangles (4)
• and wearing a dress made of leaves of contrasting colours (3)
• drive away the white birds in the field where arrow-head plant (கரந்தைச் செடி) has grown (6),
• plucking the green sedges from the tanks (5)
• when they are tired of sports in the colourful water (4).
• (At that ghat) yesterday you sported (12)
• with a harlot whom you desired who was wearing bangles in the wrist in the freshes (11).
• The scandal which arose on account of that act (12)
• is today greater than the uproarious noise (17)
• when Kaṭṭi who had an army capable of inflicting death on enemies in battles (16)
• and who came to fight along with pānaṉ of great victory and strength (13)
• fled away without fighting (18)
• being afraid of the sound produced by the war drum of sweet sound to hear (15)
• which arose in the audience hall early in the morning in Uṟantai belonging to tittaṉ veḷiyaṉ (14)
• of profuse garlands (13).

ஊர(2)! மாயம் உரையல்(1); (யான் அவற்றை உணர்கு வென் அல்லென்(1); நாணிலை(2); காவிரியில்(10) கழார் முன்றுறையில்(8) நீவெய்யோளொடு(11) முன்னாள் ஆடிய கவ்வை(12) கட்டி என்பான்(16) பாணன் என்பானொடு கூடிப்(13) (போர் செய்தற்கு வந்து) வெளியன் தித்தன் உறந்தை நாரிவைக் கண்ணே(14) கிணை ஒலிகேட்டு அஞ்சிப்(15) பொராது ஓடிய (போது உண்டான) ஆரவாரத்தினும் பெரிதாகும்(17).

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