Tirukkurralak Kuravanci 43
English (machine translation) 43
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43.1
Even fish that never swim upstream come leaping up;
water birds from every direction arrive;
planting a hundredth snare auspiciously,
Nūvaṉ and I were waiting. Hereafter for you,
let it be the efficacious medicine for the kiln,
or smelling snuff without others talking,
or a waist-cloth, or an egret, or a jackal horn—
I shall give it to you! Cease your troublesome chatter! (Keep quiet!)
43.2
Anointed, adorned, hair dressed, bracelets worn, / tilak applied, collyrium lined, gold decked, and flowers worn— / like lustful men caught in the virtuous-looking noose / of courtesans who fleece [them of] coin, / and like the horse of an uncouth Turk / stumbling as its foot strikes a rock, / look, all the egrets of the land come into the snare / and get caught! Look, the meat is secured!
43.3
The tern and the egret come close; / the heron wanders like a hypocritical thief. / Like pleasure-seekers wandering up / and down out of lust for spear-eyed maidens, / it wanders, wanders, wanders on foot, / and chasing away the birds headed for our snare, / it is like a pebble caught to break one's teeth / in a flowing river of milk and river of ghee!
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The Poet's Speech
Viruttam
At the channel of Lady Kuḻalvāymoḻi, / the Ceṇpaka channel, the channel of the One adorned with the crescent moon, / at Kāvavayal, Veṇṇamaṭai, Taṭṭāṉpaṟṟu, / Kaḷḷikuḷam, Aḻakarpaḷḷam, Kūttaṉmūlai— / standing beside every tank, Ciṅkaṉ hunted; / at the river channel of Vaṭa Aruvi, the north channel, the south channel, / and wherever temple lands lay, he set his snares, / shouted, and sent forth Nūvaṉ.
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Ciṅkaṉ's Speech
Rāga: Darbār; Tāla: Cāppu
Kaṇṇis