Apirami Ammaip Patikam 1.7

1.7

Standing as the support for the enduring worlds, eternal, / the embodiment of liberation, you who dutifully / foster the thirty-two virtues as a wife— / yet, running and entering from house to house, his legs weary, / shame gone, having no destiny to wear even a white cloth at his waist, / clad in a naked guise, bearing a skull-bowl / in his hand, his heart failing everywhere in the land, / becoming a madman, O Mother! Why does your husband wander / longing and begging alms everywhere? Tell me! / O life of Ādi Kaṭavūr, where women sport atop pavilions with fluttering banners! / Śukapāṇi, who never leaves one half of Amutīcar! / Gracious Vāmī! Apirāmi!