Tiruppavai 22 · verse 495 of the four thousand
aṅkaṇ mā ñālattu aracar apimāṉapaṅkamāy vantu niṉ paḷḷikkaṭṭiṟ kīḻēcaṅkam iruppār pōl vantu talaippeytōmkiṅkiṇivāyc ceyta tāmaraip pūp pōlēceṅkaṇ ciṟuc ciṟitē emmēl viḻiyāvō?tiṅkaḷum ātittiyaṉum eḻuntāṟpōlaṅkaṇ iraṇṭum koṇṭu eṅkaḷmēl nōkkutiyēleṅkaḷmēl cāpam iḻintu-ēlōr empāvāy
Meaning
Like the kings of this wide and beautiful earth who, their pride broken, come and crowd together beneath Your royal couch, we too have come and gathered here. Like a lotus half open as the mouth of a little bell, will Your red eyes open on us, slowly, little by little? If You look upon us with those two lovely eyes, as if the moon and the sun had risen together, the curse that lies on us will fall away.
Word by word
- aṅkaṇ mā ñālattu
- of this wide and beautiful earth
- apimāṉa paṅkamāy
- their pride broken
- paḷḷikkaṭṭiṟ kīḻē
- beneath Your royal couch
- kiṅkiṇivāyc ceyta
- half open like the mouth of a little bell
- ceṅkaṇ ciṟuc ciṟitē
- Your red eyes, little by little
- tiṅkaḷum ātittiyaṉum
- the moon and the sun
- cāpam iḻintu
- the curse falls away
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.