Tiruvaymozhi 7.3.1 · verse 3475 of the four thousand
Meaning
(The girl speaks to her mothers.) Holding the white spiral conch and the discus, the lotus-eyed Lord rides His bird right through my heart. Look at it! How can I put it into words, mothers? I will go to Thirupperai, where He sits enthroned in a flood of joy, where the sound of the Vedas, the sound of festivals and the sound of children at play in crowds never cease.
Word by word
- veḷḷaic curi caṅkoṭu
- with the white spiral conch
- tāmaraik kaṇṇaṉ
- the lotus-eyed Lord
- puḷḷaik kaṭākiṉṟa
- riding His bird, Garuda
- aṉṉaimīrkāḷ?
- O mothers
- veḷḷac cukam
- a flood of joy
- piḷḷaik kuḻā viḷaiyāṭṭu oliyum
- the sound of crowds of children at play
- tiruppēreyil cērvaṉ
- I will go to Thirupperai
Tiruvaymozhi 7.3.2 · verse 3476 of the four thousand
Meaning
Friends with dark, fragrant hair, mothers, women of the neighbouring streets: I cannot guard this lonely heart of mine. It is not in my power any more. Night and day it has gone away, and now it belongs to the red fruit-like lips of Krishna, sapphire-hued Lord of the heavens, who sits enthroned in southern Thirupperai, ringed by flowering groves swarming with bees and by cool fields.
Word by word
- nāṉak karuṅ kuḻal
- dark, fragrant hair
- ayal cēriyīrkāḷ
- women of the neighbouring streets
- taṉi neñcam
- lonely heart
- eṉ vacam aṉṟu
- it is not in my power
- tēṉ moytta pūmpoḻil
- flowering groves swarming with bees
- vāṉap pirāṉ
- Lord of the heavens
- ceṅkaṉi vāyiṉ tiṟattatuvē
- it belongs to His red fruit-like lips
Tiruvaymozhi 7.3.3 · verse 3477 of the four thousand
Meaning
It belongs to His red fruit-like lips; it has bowed before His tall crown of red radiance; it rejoiced at the sight of His conch and discus; it is given over wholly to His lotus eyes. My heart, friend, has lost its modesty and its restraint to our Lord, who sits enthroned in southern Thirupperai, where festivals never cease, month after month, day after day.
Word by word
- ceñ cuṭar nīḷ muṭi
- tall crown of red radiance
- kaṇṭu ukantum
- rejoicing at the sight
- aṟṟut tīrntum
- given over wholly
- tiṅkaḷum nāḷum
- month after month, day after day
- naṅkaḷ pirāṉukku
- to our Lord
- nāṇum niṟaiyum iḻantatuvē
- has lost its modesty and restraint
Tiruvaymozhi 7.3.4 · verse 3478 of the four thousand
Meaning
My heart went after my lost fair complexion, and it too stayed back there. Now, in my suffering, with whom can I take counsel? I am sunk in the wonders of the Lord with the resounding conch in His hand, who sits enthroned in southern Thirupperai, where the sound of the good Vedas rises everywhere, standing high like the roar of the tidal sea. Mothers, why are you angry with me?
Word by word
- iḻanta em māmaittiṟattup
- after my lost fair complexion
- aṅkē oḻintār
- stayed back there
- eṉ ucākō?
- with whom can I take counsel?
- ōtak kaṭal oli pōla
- like the roar of the tidal sea
- muḻaṅku caṅkak kaiyaṉ
- Lord with the resounding conch in hand
- māyattu āḻntēṉ
- I am sunk in His wonders
- eṉṉai eṉ muṉintē?
- why are you angry with me?
Tiruvaymozhi 7.3.5 · verse 3479 of the four thousand
Meaning
In anger He kicked the cart; He drank from the breast of the deceiving demoness; He went between the maruda trees; He flung the calf at the ripe wood-apple tree. To that Lord Krishna I have lost my womanhood. Mothers, what will you gain by being angry now? Take me, while there is still time, to Thirupperai with its ripe groves, where He came of His own accord and sits enthroned.
Word by word
- cakaṭam utaittu
- kicking the cart (demon)
- māyap
- deceiving
- marutu iṭai pōy
- going between the two maruda trees
- viḷavukkuk kaṉṟu eṟinta
- flung the calf at the wood-apple tree
- eṉ peṇmai tōṟṟēṉ
- I have lost my womanhood
- muṉṉi avaṉ vantu
- He came of His own accord
- kālampeṟa eṉṉaik kāṭṭumiṉē
- take me there while there is time
Tiruvaymozhi 7.3.6 · verse 3480 of the four thousand
Meaning
Take me there while there is still time, for my love is far greater than the sea. Our Lord, coloured like a dark-blue cloud, stands before me, yet He does not come within reach of my hands. Take me to Thirupperai of gathering waters, where He came down to this world and sits enthroned, where the masters of the four Vedas never cease their sacrifices and the lovely red paddy sways like fly-whisks fanning Him.
Word by word
- kātal kaṭaliṉ mikap peritāl
- my love is far greater than the sea
- nīla mukil vaṇṇattu
- coloured like a dark-blue cloud
- eṉ kaikkum eytāṉ
- He does not come within my reach
- nāṉmaṟaiyāḷarum vēḷvi ōvā
- masters of the four Vedas never cease sacrifices
- kōlac cenneṟkaḷ kavari vīcum
- lovely red paddy waving like fly-whisks
- kūṭu puṉal
- gathering waters
Tiruvaymozhi 7.3.7 · verse 3481 of the four thousand
Meaning
The Lord who destroyed southern Lanka, ringed by great walls and the sea, came and sits enthroned in Thirupperai. My heart went into that town; I searched for it to bring it back, but I cannot find it anywhere. Friend, whom do we have here any more? There is no one who can call my heart back. With whom can I achieve anything now? What my heart has seen, that alone is what I see.
Word by word
- pēr eyil cūḻ kaṭal
- great walls and the surrounding sea
- teṉ ilaṅkai ceṟṟa pirāṉ
- the Lord who destroyed southern Lanka
- pērttu vara
- to bring it back
- kāṇamāṭṭēṉ
- I cannot find it
- kūva vallārum illai
- no one who can call it back
- eṉ neñcam kaṇṭatuvē kaṇṭēṉē
- what my heart saw, that alone I see
Tiruvaymozhi 7.3.8 · verse 3482 of the four thousand
Meaning
Taking only what they had seen, everyone gathered and spread gossip linking me with the Lord coloured like the dark sea. Friend, if I were to speak of the love I have held since that time, it is greater than this dense earth, the seven seas and the wide sky put together. I will go and reach southern Thirupperai, ringed by clear waves, where He sits enthroned.
Word by word
- kaṇṭatuvē koṇṭu
- taking only what they saw
- kārk kaṭal vaṇṇaṉōṭu
- with the Lord coloured like the dark sea
- alar tūṟṟiṟṟu
- spread gossip
- maṇ tiṇi ñālamum
- the dense earth
- kaḻiyap peritāl
- far greater than
- teṇ tirai cūḻntu
- ringed by clear waves
- cērvaṉ ceṉṟē
- I will go and reach it
Tiruvaymozhi 7.3.9 · verse 3483 of the four thousand
Meaning
I will go and reach it, my friends; mothers, there is no need to console me. What use is all that you say? I have no heart left here, and no restraint. I am going to the great city of southern Thirupperai, with its lovely, rich, bright fields and watered lands, where Krishna, the cloud-hued Lord who swallowed the world with its dark seas, came and sits enthroned.
Word by word
- eṉṉait tēṟṟa vēṇṭā
- no need to console me
- neñcum niṟaivum
- heart and restraint
- kārvaṇṇaṉ
- the cloud-hued Lord
- kārk kaṭal ñālam uṇṭa
- who swallowed the world with its dark seas
- ēr vaḷa oṇ kaḻaṉip
- lovely, rich, bright fields
- tiruppēreyil mānakarē
- the great city of Thirupperai
Tiruvaymozhi 7.3.10 · verse 3484 of the four thousand
Meaning
I will search through the city, the countryside and everywhere else; I have no shame left, my friends. The wondrous Lord with long makara earrings, who sits enthroned in southern Thirupperai of tall mansions with jewelled peaks; the matchless cloud-hued Lord with the discus, who long ago spun the downfall of the hundred: He has stolen my heart. For how many ages must I now wait?
Word by word
- nāṇ eṉakku illai
- I have no shame left
- cikara maṇi neṭu māṭam
- tall mansions with jewelled peaks
- makara neṭuṅkuḻaik kātaṉ
- Lord with long fish-shaped (makara) earrings
- nūṟṟuvarai aṉṟu maṅka nūṟṟa
- who spun the downfall of the hundred Kauravas
- nikar il mukilvaṇṇaṉ
- the matchless cloud-hued Lord
- neñcam kavarntu
- stealing my heart
Tiruvaymozhi 7.3.11 · verse 3485 of the four thousand
Meaning
Age after age His forms, names and deeds are different, and He protects the world: He is Achyuta, coloured like the ocean. Of Him Satakopan of beautiful Kurugur sang a matchless linked garland of a thousand verses. Those who can praise the Lord with the discus in His lovely hand with these ten on Thirupperai will be deep as the ocean in His service.
Word by word
- uruvum pērum ceykaiyum
- forms, names and deeds
- āḻi nīr vaṇṇaṉai
- the Lord coloured like the ocean
- accutaṉai
- Achyuta, the One who never lets go
- kēḻ il antāti
- matchless linked garland of verses
- āḻi aṅkaiyaṉai
- the Lord with the discus in His lovely hand
- aṭimaittiṟattu āḻiyārē
- will be deep as the ocean in service
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.