Irandam Tiruvandadi 71 · verse 2252 of the four thousand
Meaning
When the Prince who rests on the serpent bed, whose fiery mouths breathe out poison, stretched out His flower-like foot to measure the directions, the right-whorled conch in His left hand stood roaring, and the discus, spitting fire, made all His foes shrink away.
Word by word
- iṭaṅkai valampuri
- the right-whorled conch in His left hand
- eri kāṉṟu
- spitting fire
- aṭaṅkār oṭuṅkuvittatu
- made the foes shrink away
- viṭam kālum tī vāy aravu
- the serpent with fiery mouths breathing poison
- tōṉṟal
- the Prince
- pū ār aṭi nimirtta
- stretched out His flower-like foot
Irandam Tiruvandadi 72 · verse 2253 of the four thousand
Meaning
Knowing the hour, the monkeys go into flowery mountain springs, cut the flowers blooming there and offer praise. At that hour my heart too goes to the flower-feet of the gem-like Lord of Thiruvenkatam, dwelling on the names of the beautiful Lord of Venkatam.
Word by word
- pōtu aṟintu
- knowing the hour
- vāṉaraṅkaḷ
- the monkeys
- pūñcuṉai pukku
- entering the flowery springs
- pōtu arintukoṇṭu
- cutting the flowers
- maṇi vēṅkaṭavaṉ
- the gem-like Lord of Thiruvenkatam
- pēr āyntu
- dwelling on His names
Irandam Tiruvandadi 73 · verse 2254 of the four thousand
Meaning
I, who have resolved to become the servant of the Lord who freed the red-eyed elephant with tusks curved like the crescent moon, will scatter choice flowers every day, at morning, noon and evening, and dwell upon and speak His thousand names.
Word by word
- āyiram pēr
- His thousand names
- āti naṭu antivāy
- at morning, noon and evening
- malar tūvi
- scattering flowers
- piṟaik kōṭṭuc ceṅkaṇ kari
- the red-eyed elephant with crescent tusks
- viṭutta pemmāṉ
- the Lord who freed it
- āṭpaṭat tuṇinta yāṉ
- I, who resolved to be His servant
Irandam Tiruvandadi 74 · verse 2255 of the four thousand
Meaning
It is I who have done penance, through all seven births and at every moment; it is I who have that penance, my Lord! For it is I who have sung a good garland of rich Tamil to Your two feet: I, a great Tamil poet, have become good and flourish.
Word by word
- yāṉē tavam ceytēṉ
- it is I who have done penance
- ēḻ piṟappum
- through all seven births
- em perumāṉ
- my Lord
- irun tamiḻ nal mālai
- a good garland of rich Tamil
- iṇai aṭikkē
- to Your two feet
- perun tamiḻaṉ
- a great Tamil poet
Irandam Tiruvandadi 75 · verse 2256 of the four thousand
Meaning
See, it is Thiruvenkatam, the hill of the Lord whose colour blends with the sky, where a great tusker in full musth stands before his mate, pulls up a tender bamboo shoot with two joints, dips it in the honey lying close by, and holds it out to her.
Word by word
- peruku mata vēḻam
- a great tusker in full musth
- māp piṭikku
- to his great mate
- iru kaṇ iḷa mūṅkil
- a tender bamboo shoot with two joints
- tēṉ kalantu nīṭṭum
- dipping it in honey and holding it out
- tiruvēṅkaṭam kaṇṭīr
- see, it is Thiruvenkatam
- vāṉ kalanta vaṇṇaṉ
- the Lord whose colour blends with the sky
Irandam Tiruvandadi 76 · verse 2257 of the four thousand
Meaning
Gathering in order sandal paste from the hills, fine ornaments and silk, and fragrant white jasmine, to recite His praise and bow at the two feet of the Knowing One, who stood there at the very beginning: that is what truly befits us.
Word by word
- varaic cantaṉak kuḻampum
- sandal paste from the hills
- vāṉ kalaṉum paṭṭum
- fine ornaments and silk
- veṇ mallikaiyum
- white jasmine
- ātikkaṇ niṉṟa aṟivaṉ
- the Knowing One who stood at the beginning
- aṭi iṇaiyē
- His two feet alone
- uṟum
- is fitting
Irandam Tiruvandadi 77 · verse 2258 of the four thousand
Meaning
This is what befits us, my good heart: the good feet of the Highest One. It befits us to worship them with bright lotuses. And it befits us, see, to praise and bow and, at all times, to adorn Him with His thousand names and recite them: that itself is penance.
Word by word
- uṟum kaṇṭāy
- this is fitting, you see
- uttamaṉ nal pātam
- the good feet of the Highest One
- oṇ kamalam
- bright lotuses
- īr aiññūṟu
- twice five hundred, the thousand names
- cātti uraittal
- adorning Him with them and reciting
- tavam
- penance
Irandam Tiruvandadi 78 · verse 2259 of the four thousand
Meaning
Brahma, by his penance, won this: when the Lord's golden foot rose and was stretched out to measure the earth, he poured the waters of the Ganga over it and washed it fully with his own red hands, and then recited all His names.
Word by word
- tavam ceytu
- by doing penance
- nāṉ mukaṉē peṟṟāṉ
- four-faced Brahma won this
- nivantu aḷappa
- rising to measure
- poṟ pātam
- the golden foot
- kaṅkai nīr
- the waters of the Ganga
- pēr moḻintu
- reciting His names
Irandam Tiruvandadi 79 · verse 2260 of the four thousand
Meaning
His mother pleaded from behind, and He would not listen; Lakshmi of the dense lotus stood before His great broad shoulders and pleaded too. He, the peerless Prince whose shoulders are praised in every word: the long earth that He measured was equal to all of that.
Word by word
- piṉ niṉṟu tāy irappa
- as His mother pleaded from behind
- kēḷāṉ
- He would not listen
- perum paṇait tōḷ
- great broad shoulders
- moym malarāḷ
- Lakshmi of the dense lotus
- nēr illāt tōṉṟal
- the peerless Prince
- attaṉaikkum nēr
- equal to all of that
Irandam Tiruvandadi 80 · verse 2261 of the four thousand
Meaning
I accepted servitude to You; I thought on it; with love I heaped that bright lotus upon Your red feet. For those who have seen the beauty of Your feet so adorned, what is that day, long ago, when the form that spanned the earth was seen?
Word by word
- nērntēṉ aṭimai
- I accepted servitude
- oṇ kamalam
- the bright lotus
- uṉ cēvaṭimēl aṉpāy
- on Your red feet, in love
- aṭik kōlam
- the beauty of the feet
- muṉṉaip paṭik kōlam
- the earlier form that spanned the earth
- pakal
- day
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.