AKAM 241

Tiṇai:

pālai

Author:

Kāvaṉ mullaippūtaṉār

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V. M. Subramanya Ayyar (1975) [IFP, unpublished]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

(1-3) The friend praising the qualities of talaivaṉ

(3-5) talaivi stating the nature of talaivaṉ

(5-8) Description of the desert in summer

( 9-12) The pitiable condition of the solitary stag

(13-16) The female monkey playing with the fruits of emblic myrobalam (நெல்லி)

Colophon(s):

Talaivi who had become changed during separation replied to the friend who consoled her

Syntactical link:

see below

Difficult words:

see below

Variant readings:

see below

Notes::

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• Friend ! May you live long ! (5)
• Though one who loves me without having said good words (3)
• praising talaivaṉ's sweet nature (4-3)
• ``He is a kind person having friendship with us, which cannot be broken, and which has been formed without dislike (1);
• our lover (5)
• who was hitherto daily by my side with love that did not know separation, (4)
• has gone crossing the mountain which has on its sides well-grown trees (16)
• The young shoots of the bamboo which grows on a great height withers and shrinks (5-6)
• The extensive rocks where the twigs of the bamboo make a creaking sound gets scorched (6-7)
• As the clouds have not poured rain, the mountain streams have dried up; (7-8)
• the expansive area strikes fear in the minds of intending travellers (8)
• In that area, the stag which is full-grown, solitary and big (10)
• runs towards the mirage mistaking it to be rain water (9),
• stays with sorrow in that new hot forest where the mirage is always in a wavy motion without any idea of leaving that place (11)
• There the red-faced female monkey which has soft hairs on its head like cotton fibres (14)
• jumps about and plays (15)
• with the sweet fruits of emblic myrobalam which grows in the paths of the desert (13)
• as if it is playing with molucca beans of spherical shape (14)
• (Therefore) I am not able to bear)

• .1. னீயாரம்ம; னினியாரம்ம.
• .11. அலங்குநிலை.
• .16. நீண்மர.

துவரா

- indivisible.

முனியாது

- without dislike.

நல்குவர்

- will lavish love on me.

அல்கலும்

- always

உழையர்

- one who is always by our side.

இளமுளை

- fresh and tender shoots.

திரங்க

- to wither and become dry.

காம்பின் கழை

- twigs of the bamboo.

நன்ந்தலை

- extensive space.

ஆன்ற

- having become dry.

பேஎய்வெண்தேர்

- mirage.

செத்து

- thinking

கலை

- stag.

தனிமுதர்பெருங்கலை

-solitary old and big stag

புலம் பெயர்ந்து

- leaving that place.

அத்தம்

- the path in the desert region.

Translation:

முனியாது நல்குவர் is a hint at the friend who is spoken as a stranger in the third person.

""அவர் நட்பின் இனியர்; முனியாது நல்குவர்'' These words can be taken as the friend praising talaivaṉ's qualities.

Mirage is called in Tamil as "ப்த்தேர்'

தாஅம் is a corruption of the Samskrit word "தாகம்'. This word is used in Kalittokai verse 12, line 5 and in a verse quoted in Yāpparunkalavirutti
""தா அம்படு நர்க்குத்தண்ணீருள் கொல்லோ'' (Bhavānantar edition p.383

புலம் can be taken to mean some other place. :