AKAM 292

Tiṇai:

Kuṟiñci

Author:

Kapilar

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V. M. Subramanya Ayyar (1975) [IFP, unpublished]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

2004/01/21

Table of contents (by lines):

1-2 Foster-mother wasting money being confused in mind.

3-4 The vēlaṉ performing veṟi dance to sacrifice a young lamb, which has left drinking its mother's milk

7-8 The wild elephant going to a neighbouring field and grazing at night.

9-11 The hunter who guards the field against beasts and birds shadows the elephant and throws stones with the aid of sling.

12-14 The actions of the stones discharged from the sling.

1, 15 talaivi asking the advice of her confidante, if talaivaṉ does not marry her.

Colophon(s):

talaimakaḷ told her friend, dreading the veṟi dance.

Syntactical link:

see below

Difficult words:

see below

Variant readings:

see below

Notes:

see below

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• Confidante (1)!
• Seeing the distress which made my shining bangles to become loose, (7)
• even our foster-mother who mistook it to be the effect of my being possessed by spirits, is wasting money, being whirled in mind (2).
• I am ashamed (6)
• of the performance of veṟi dance too by vēlaṉ who is in no way and that (5)
• with the sole intention of sacrificing a young lamb (4)
• which has just begun to eat small quantity of leafy food and has giving up drinking its mother's milk (3).
• If the chief of the hilly region where the hunter of strong hands who watches the field sitting on a raised platform built on the rock, and drives away beasts and birds which cause damage to the crop (10),
• keenly observes (9)
• the movement of the elephant (8)
• which places its feet securely and firmly and goes to another field to graze at midnight, (8)
• and discharges a small stone (11)
• from a sling with great speed (11)
• which goes swiftly like an arrow fixed with feathers (12),
• scatters the blossomed bunches of east indian kino-tree, destroys the honey-comb (13)
• and gets lodged inside the fruit of the jack-tree, does not marry me, please tell me what is to be done (1)

தோழி(1)! வளை நெகிழ்த்த செல்லல்(7) வேறு உணர்ந்து(1 அன்னையும் பொருள் உகுத்து, அலமரும்(2); வெறி புரி(4) வேலன்(5) தூங்குமாயின், அதூ உம் நாணுவல்(6) மலைகெழு நாடன் மணவாக் கால்(15) செய்வது கூறாய்(1).

• $$ட.8.மேய மரூஉ; மேயல மரூ உமோங்கல்.
• $$ட.9.காவலரியக்கம்; காவலியக்கம்.
• $$ட.10.வன்கட் கானவன். பலவிளம் பழத்துட்.

பொருள் உகுத்து

- having poured money

அலமரும்

- is whirling in mind.

மென் முறிச்சிறுகுளகு

- small amount of food soft leaves.

மறி

- lamb.

வெறிபுரி ஏதில் வேலன்

- the vēlaṉ who has no connection with our disease and only performs veṟi dance.

கோதை துயல்வர

- wearing a garland swaying in his chest.

தூங்கு மாயின்

- if he performs veṟi.

அதூ உம் நாணுவல்

- I am abashed of that too.

இலங்கு வளை நெகிழ்த்த செல்லல்

- (after seeing) the suffering which made my shining bangles become loose.

மேயல் மரூ உம்

- which is fond of grazing.

கால் வல் இயக்கம் ஒற்றி

- observing keenly the movement of the elephant which places its feet securely and firmly.

கழுது

- elevated platform from which one guards the field against damage by beasts and birds.

கடுவிசைக் கவணின் எறிந்த இறுகல்

- small stones discharged with great force from the sling.

உடுஉறு கணையின்

- like the arrow with feathers; on like the arrow that is discharged from the point where it is pressed against the bow-string.

சாரல் வேங்கை

- east indian kino-tree that grows in the slopes.

கிதறி

- having scattered.

தேன்சிதையூஉ

- having destroyed the honey-comb.

பலவின் பழத்துள் தங்கும்

- gets lodged inside the jack fruit.

மணவாக்கால்

- if he does not marry me

Special notes :- வேறு உணரல்