Tiruppavai 9 · verse 482 of the four thousand
tūmaṇi māṭattuc cuṟṟum viḷakku eriyattūmam kamaḻat tuyil-aṇaimēl kaṇvaḷarummāmāṉ makaḷē maṇik katavam tāḷ tiṟavāymāmīr avaḷai eḻuppīrō? uṉ makaḷ tāṉūmaiyō? aṉṟic ceviṭō? aṉantalō?ēmap peruntuyil mantirap paṭṭāḷō?mā māyaṉ mātavaṉ vaikuntaṉ eṉṟu eṉṟunāmam palavum naviṉṟu ēlōr empāvāy
Meaning
O daughter of my uncle, sleeping on a soft bed in a mansion of flawless gems, with lamps burning all around and incense drifting, unbolt the jewelled door! Aunt, will you not wake her? Is your daughter dumb, or deaf, or simply drowsy? Has she been put under a spell of deep, guarded sleep? We keep chanting His many names: the great Wondrous One, Madhava, Lord of Vaikuntha.
Word by word
- tūmaṇi māṭattuc
- in a mansion of flawless gems
- tūmam kamaḻat
- with incense drifting
- māmāṉ makaḷē
- O daughter of my uncle
- maṇik katavam tāḷ tiṟavāy
- unbolt the jewelled door
- aṉantalō
- or simply drowsy?
- mantirap paṭṭāḷō
- has she been put under a spell?
- mātavaṉ vaikuntaṉ
- Madhava, consort of Lakshmi; the Lord of Vaikuntha
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.