AKAM 302

Tiṇai:

Kuṟiñci

Author:

maturai aṟyvai vāṇikaṉ iḷavēṭṭaṉār (variant reading : nil)

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V. M. Subramanya Ayyar (1975) [IFP, unpublished]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

2004/09/04

Table of contents (by lines):

(1-4) The description of the mountain belonging to talaivaṉ.

(4) Bathing in the mountain stream

(5) gathering blue nelumbo flowers (நீலம்) from the mountain pools.

(6-7) playing with talaivaṉ in the grove in the mountain

(8). These will not be possible in future.

(9-11) The millet grows fertile so as to invite parrots, in the millet farm.

(13-15) The mother looking often at the tresses and the mature breasts of talaivi.

Colophon(s):

The companion spoke as if talking to talaimakaḷ during daytime by the side of the fence.

Syntactical link:

see below

Difficult words:

see below

Variant readings:

see below

Notes::

see below

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• Affectionate friend (8)!
• playing with desire in the grove where the fragrance spreads (7)
• for which the swarms of bees hum on east indian kino tree (வேங்கைமரம்) of fragrant flowers (6),
• having plucked the blue nelumbo flowers (நீலம்) of many petals that grow in the mountain pool (5),
• and having bathed in the waterfalls together with the chief of the mountainous region (4)
• where the waving beautiful leaves (2)
• of the reddish variety of plaintain tree which grows tall in the mountain, (1)
• gently rub the big back of the sleeping elephant (3)
• every time the gentle breeze blows against them (2),
• will perhaps become rare hereafter (8).
• (Though our mother) knows that the millet of big ears of corn has become ripe (11)
• so as to invite the parrots to swarm on them, (11)
• which has grown beautifully like the sugar-cane (10)
• in the farms in the adjacent mountain of big boulders (9),
• which was ploughed by our brothers (16),
• it seems she will not send us there to keep watch over it (12).
• The uncharitable mother looks many times (15)
• at many soft luxuriant tresses (14)
• and the young big breasts which are close to each other and on which a few yellow spots have appeared (13)
• to make them beautiful (12)

காதல் அம் தோழி(8)! அறன் இல்யாய்(15), இளமுலை(13 கதுப்பொடு(14) பல்கால் நோக்கும்(15); (ஆகலின்) ஏனல்(10) கிளி பட விளைந்தமை அறிந்தும் செல்கென(11) நம் அவண் விடு நள் போலான்; (இனிநாம்) நாடனொடு அருவி யாடியும்(4), சுனைக்குற்றும்(5), சோலை நயந்து விளையாடலும்(7) அரியபோலும்(8).

• There is no variant reading in the text of the poem also

ஆடியும், குற்றும்: These adverbial participle modify விளையாடல்(7)

Here bathing in the mountain waterfall has been included in playing in the grove.

The word "குற்று' is always used in caṅkam works only to denote plucking flowers growing in water,
cf ""கழிப்பூக்குற்றும் கானல் அல்கியும்'' (akam.320-1);
""சுனைப்பூக்குற்றும்'' (naṟṟiṇai 173-1.);
""சிறுபாசடைய நெய்தல் குறுமோசென்றெனக் கூறாதோளே'' (Do. 27-11-12);
""நீர் தரு மகளிர் குற்ற குவளையும்'' (puṟam, : 42-16).

That the mother looks many times at talaivi and she will not send her to the millet farm gently hint to alaivaṉ that talaivi would be put under restraint in the house.

Bathing in the mountain waterfalls in the company of talaivaṉ is mentioned in Kuṟuntokai and in this
""ஆர்கலி வெற்பன் மார்பு புணையாகக், கோடுயர் நெடுவரைக் கவாஅன் பகலே, பாடு இன் அருவி ஆடுதல் இனிதே'' Kuṟuntokai 353-1-3).
""வீங்குபெயல் நீத்தம், காந்தனஞ்சிறுகுடிக் கௌவைபேணாது, அரிமதர் மழைக்கண் சிவப்ப நாளைப், பெருமலை நாடன் மார்பு புணையாக ஆடுகம் வம்மோ'' (akam, 312-4-8).