Tirukkurralak Kuravanci 21
English (machine translation) 21
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21.1
Male monkeys give fruits and sweet-talk the female monkeys;
celestial poets plead for the fruits the female monkeys drop.
21.2
Forest hunters cast their gaze and summon the gods of heaven;
siddhas who travel the skies keep arriving to work perfection of the body.
21.3
Waves of cascades of honey rise and flow across the path of the sky;
the hooves of the horses and the wheels of the chariot of the hot-rayed Sun slip.
21.4
The mountain of Kuṟṟālam’s Tirikūṭa, of the Lord adorned with braided hair
crowned with the curved young crescent moon, is our mountain.
21.5
Cascades of water with roaring waves toss pearls like playing-stones;
spreading through every courtyard, they sweep away the toy houses of girls.
21.6
We dig up roots, gather honey, and walk about singing of abundance;
breaking the tusks of wild elephants, we pound the harvested millet.
21.7
Plump monkeys play ball with the fruits of the sweet mango tree;
the fragrance of blossoming honeyed campaka bursts forth in the celestial world.
21.8
The Tirikūṭa Mountain, rich in bounty, of the Lord of Kuṟumpalā,
the great King of boundless generosity, is our mountain.
21.9
The gems yielded by moving serpents flash millions of sunbeams;
thinking the moon is a morsel of food, the elephant blocks its path.
21.10
In every clearing hacked by hunters to sow millet,
the wondrous scents of eaglewood, saffron, and sandalwood arise.
21.11
Through every forest, mountain goats run and leap;
upon the mountain where no crow can draw near, ranks of clouds recline.
21.12
The everlasting Tirikūṭa Mountain of the eternal Lord of Kuṟumpalā,
who dwells on Mount Kailāsa, is our mountain.
21.13
It is the southern mountain to the northern mountain called Kailāsa, O lady;
it is the mountain that stands like the great golden Meru, O lady.
21.14
It is the northern mountain to the southern mountain Podiyil, O lady;
it is the mountain that holds all mountains within itself, O lady.
21.15
It is the mountain where diamonds and rubies grow, O lady;
it is the mountain into whose caves the sun in the sky enters, O lady.
21.16
The Tirikūṭa Mountain of the Pure One whom those who awaken from sleep
seek throughout the entire universe, is our mountain, O lady.
21.17
The Kolli mountain belongs to my younger sister Celli, O lady;
the hereditary mountain of my husband is the Palaṉi mountain, O lady.
21.18
The sunlit Vindhya mountain is my father’s mountain, O lady;
the Himālaya mountain is my elder brother’s mountain, O lady.
21.19
Incomparable Swāmimalai is my mother-in-law’s mountain, O lady;
the Vēḷvimalai in the country of Nāñcil is my female friend’s mountain, O lady.
21.20
Tirikūṭa mountain, where flocks of peacocks dance
as hosts of clouds drum, is our treasure mountain, O lady.
21.21
We give no daughters to another caste, nor take from another caste;
once we form a kinship, we never let it go: we are the kuṟava clan.
21.22
In the millet field where terrifying wild beasts came, warding them off,
because He shielded us from the sun taking the form of a vēṅkai tree,
21.23
to the gracious Lord Vēlaṉ of Ilañci we gave a maiden [in marriage];
as dowry, we gave all the ancient mountains.
21.24
The mountain encircled by the sun and moon we gave to Dhruva;
the Tirikūṭa mountain of the Supreme Lord is our ancient mountain, O lady.
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Vasantavalli inquiring about the wealth of the kuṟatti’s country and city
viruttam
“The bounty of tusks is shown by your breasts; the bounty of vines is shown by your waist;
the bounty of the forest where kuṟiñci has blossomed is shown by your hair;
why need you describe the bounty of the mountain to show it to me?
O peahen flourishing on the Tirikūṭa Mountain of the Lord with adorned ears,
tell me of the bounty of your country,
and declare the bounty of the city of Kuṟṟālam.”
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The kuṟatti describing the wealth of the country
rāga: Kedāragauḷa, tāḷa: Cāppu
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