AKAM 301

Tiṇai:

pālai

Author:

latiyaṉ viṇṇattaṉār (variant reading : atiayaṉ vaṇṇattiṉar)

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V. M. Subramanya Ayyar (1975) [IFP, unpublished]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

Date of last revision:

2003/09/03

Table of contents (by lines):

(1-3) talaivi replying to the consoling words of her companion.

(4-5) The dancers live upon the munificient gifts of rich people.

(6-8) They lead a life travelling in a cart and they cannot claim any place as their own native place.

(9-12) They stay under the shade of trees in the desert, remove the suffering caused by heat, and adorn themselves with chaplets made of the heaping bunches of yarcum (எருக்கம்)

(12-15) Their womenfolk, wear garlands made of tenner's senna (ஆவிரை).

(16-23) The dancers move from place to place with their musical instruments.

(24-25) The village common place under the tree will not be pleasing to look at, the day after the festival is over.

(26-28) talaivi replying that her lover's love cannot be forgotten.

Colophon(s):

The talaimakaḷ who became changed during separation replied to her friend who assevarated with her.

Syntactical link:

see below

Difficult words:

see below

Variant readings:

see below

Notes::

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• Companion (3)!
• You say (3),
• `Having faded and suffered like the withered crops in the fields which are dried up in times of failure of rain (1),
• we will keep quiet a little (3)
• having thought often about the one who parted from us, to increase our distress, and undergoing on account of that (2),
• The dancers having a large number of relations (23)
• live upon the small presents donated by rich people without concealing anything (4)
• and enjoying them without any break and not caring to save for the future lead a life without any hindrance; (5)
• they cannot claim any one place as their own native place (8);
• travel in a cart which is covered by a special kind of mat (7)
• which like the opened mouth of the crocodile which lives in water (6),
• and makes a sound. Having removed the suffering caused by travelling in the desert by staying under the shade of the tree (9)
• and having played the drum called Kiṇai (கிணை) which produces a clear and sweet sound (10),
• and adorning the heads of male member with the chaplets made of dense flowers of yarcum (எருக்கம்) of globular bunches. (11)
• which are pleasing to look at (10),
• the garlands of shining flowers of tanner's senna (ஆவிரை) growing in the forest (14)
• to wave in the big breasts in the chest of the beautiful womenfolk among them (15),
• to be seen in the light of the roaring fire that rose in the jungle (13),
• they play upon the small and large flutes made of bamboo (17)
• whose music resembles the breathing of the female elephant walking close to its male and of the male elephant (16)
• to the accompaniment of (முழுவு) (17)
• (the musical drum) and keep time (19)
• like the sound of the toad (19)
• which makes noise in the water when the sable clouds thunder (18);
• they go to many places (21)
• with their small musical instruments into which a few pebbles are put to produce sound (20).
• They perform dances (21)
• and after they have finished them, quickly (21)
• bundle the tops of the many instruments in bags (22);
• If people see the village common place having lost its splendour (24)
• the next day (23),
• it will not be a pleasant sight for the inhabitants of the old village (25)
• which was full of bustle during the festival (25).
• We are undergoing the same kind of distress in this evening (26);
• Therefore (26)
• is it possible to forget our lover's love (27)
• so very quickly ? It is impossible (27).

தோழி(3)! பிரிந்தோர் உள்ளுபு நினைதல்(2) சிறுநனி ஆன்றிகம்'என்றி(3); கோடியர் இறந்த(23) புன்தலை மன்றம் காணின் வழி நாள்(24) மூதூர்க்கு இன்னாதாகும்(25); அதுவே மாலை மருவினம்(26); அதனால்(26) காதலர் செய்தகாதல்(27) நீடின்று மறத்தல் கூடுமோ?(28) சிலப்தம்(4) உண்டு(5), வருத்தம் வீட்டி(9), கண்ணி(11) தகைப்ப(12), கோதை(14) துயல்வரத்(15), தூம்பு முழவொடு புணர்ந்து இசைப்பச்(17), சிறுபல்லியத்தொடு(20) பல்லூர் பெயர்வனர் ஆடி(21), தலைப்புணர்த்து அசைத்த கலப்பையர் ஆய(22) கோடியர்(23).

Akanāṉūṟu The 3rd book by name nittilakkōvai (301)

செய் denotes the crops in the field.

ஓம்புதல் - being miserly by not giving to others and thereby saving that it would be necessary for them in future.

ஆவித்தல் - yawning; opening the mouth for yawning. The sound produced by the cart may be taken as being compared to the sound produced by yawning.

ஆரை: nacciṉārkkiṉiyar gives the meaning of this word in his commentary on perumpāṇaṟṟuppaṭai 1, 50 as தொத்துளிப் பாய்.

The 7th line is found without any change as the 50th line in perumpāṇāṟṟuppati.

The word செல்லும் must be supplied and added with வாழ்க்கை (8)

The music produced by the bamboo flute is compared to the sound produced by the elephant when it breathes. This is found in the following quotations; -
""ஓய்களிறு நோயுடை நெடுங்கை, தொகுசொற் கோடிய தூம்பின் உயிர்க்கும்'' (akam. III - 8-9);
""கண்ணிடை விடுத்த களிற்றுயிர்த் தூம்பின்'' (malaipaṭūkatām, l.6);
""கண் விடு தூம்பிற் களிற்றுயிர்'' (puṟam : 152-15.)

குறுநெடுந்தூம்பு-குறுந்தூம்பும்; நெடுந்தூம்பும் சில்லரி - may be interpreted as a few sounds which are produced intermittently