Tiruppavai 14 · verse 487 of the four thousand
uṅkaḷ puḻaikkaṭait tōṭṭattu vāviyuḷceṅkaḻunīr vāy nekiḻntu āmpal vāy kūmpiṉa kāṇceṅkaṟpoṭik kūṟai veṇpaṟ tavattavartaṅkaḷ tirukkōyiṟ caṅkiṭuvāṉ pōtantāreṅkaḷai muṉṉam eḻuppuvāṉ vāy pēcumnaṅkāy eḻuntirāy nāṇātāy nāvuṭaiyāycaṅkoṭu cakkaram ēntum taṭakkaiyaṉpaṅkayak kaṇṇāṉaip pāṭu-ēlōr empāvāy
Meaning
Look, in the pond of the garden behind your house the red water lilies have opened and the night lilies have closed. The ascetics in ochre robes, with white teeth, are going to their temple to sound the conch. O girl who boasted that you would wake us first, get up! Shameless one, clever talker! Sing the lotus-eyed Lord whose great hands hold the conch and the discus.
Word by word
- puḻaikkaṭait tōṭṭattu
- in the garden behind the house
- ceṅkaḻunīr vāy nekiḻntu
- the red lilies have opened
- āmpal vāy kūmpiṉa
- the night lilies have closed
- ceṅkaṟpoṭik kūṟai
- robes dyed with red ochre
- nāṇātāy nāvuṭaiyāy
- shameless one, one with a clever tongue
- taṭakkaiyaṉ
- the One with great hands
- paṅkayak kaṇṇāṉaip
- the lotus-eyed Lord
Verse text: the word-separated e-text of the Nalayira Divya Prabandham by Project Madurai, checked verse by verse against its second edition. Meanings are simple renderings in the light of the acharyas' commentaries, written for this site, and are awaiting a scholar's review.