Tiruvaymozhi 8.5.1 · verse 3607 of the four thousand
Meaning
O wondrous Dancer, O Vamana, Kanna of me, sinner that I am! Your eyes, hands and feet are pure red flowers, Your radiant red lips a bud; Your soft, dark, sacred form is like a long, fragrant lotus pond with cool green leaves. You who come like such a pond, come one day, so that I may see You!
Word by word
- māyak kūttā
- O wondrous Dancer
- tūya ceyya malarkaḷā
- like pure red flowers
- cōtic cevvāy mukiḻatā
- radiant red lips like a bud
- cāyal cāmat tirumēṉi
- soft, dark, sacred form
- taṇ pācaṭaiyā
- with cool green leaves
- vācat taṭampōl
- like a fragrant pond
- orunāḷ kāṇa vārāyē
- come one day so I may see You
Tiruvaymozhi 8.5.2 · verse 3608 of the four thousand
Meaning
"Come so that I may see You," I cry again and again, till my eyes and mouth are dry; I, Your servant, am distressed and shamed before this fine world. Alas, take pity and come one day so that I may see You, O Lord whose head bears a crown of blazing radiance, like a great dark ruby mountain at dawn on which a dark sun is rising!
Word by word
- kaṇṇum vāyum tuvarntu
- eyes and mouth gone dry
- nāṇi
- ashamed
- iraṅki orunāḷ
- taking pity, one day
- karu nāyiṟu utikkum
- where a dark sun rises
- karu mā māṇikka
- of great dark ruby
- cuṭarc cōti muṭi
- crown of blazing radiance
Tiruvaymozhi 8.5.3 · verse 3609 of the four thousand
Meaning
"Lord with the crowned head! Great One wearing a wreath fragrant with Your cool tulasi in close-packed, blooming garlands!" So I cry and weep again and again. Will You not appear like a cloud full of pure water, with Your fish-shaped earrings resting on Your form, Your coral lips, Your four shoulders and Your waist slender as a little drum?
Word by word
- muṭicēr ceṉṉi ammā
- Lord with the crowned head
- taṇ tuḻāy
- cool tulasi
- kaṭicēr kaṇṇi
- fragrant wreath
- ēṅki aḻutakkāl
- when I cry and weep
- makarak kuḻaikaḷum
- fish-shaped earrings
- tuṭi cēr iṭaiyum
- waist slender like a little drum
- tū nīr mukil pōl
- like a cloud full of pure water
Tiruvaymozhi 8.5.4 · verse 3610 of the four thousand
Meaning
How Your radiant form, that shows like a cloud of pure water, Your fruit-red lips and Your lotus eyes brimming as if with honey have come and filled my mind! You who sleep in the ocean of pure water, like a rich, dark blue cloud resting on a silver mountain in the great waters, my Father, I cannot put it into words!
Word by word
- cuṭar koḷ vaṭivum
- radiant form
- kaṉivāyum
- lips red as ripe fruit
- tē nīrk kamalak kaṇkaḷum
- lotus eyes brimming as if with honey
- eṉ cintai niṟaintavā
- how they have filled my mind
- veḷḷi malaitaṉmēl
- on a silver mountain, Adisesha
- collamāṭṭēṉē
- I cannot speak of it
Tiruvaymozhi 8.5.5 · verse 3611 of the four thousand
Meaning
I, Your servant, cannot tell how Your holy feet, gleaming with radiance, are within me like two young suns of boundless glory. With them there, what way is there for the darkness called sorrow to come near me? O You coloured like the great rain cloud, who swallowed the whole mighty world girded by the sea!
Word by word
- tuḷaṅku cōtit tiruppātam
- holy feet gleaming with radiance
- iḷa nāyiṟu iraṇṭupōl
- like two young suns
- allal eṉṉum iruḷ
- the darkness called sorrow
- upāyam eṉṉē
- what way is there?
- ñālam muḻutu uṇṭa
- who swallowed the whole world
- koṇṭal vaṇṇaṉē
- One coloured like the rain cloud
Tiruvaymozhi 8.5.6 · verse 3612 of the four thousand
Meaning
When I call out to You to come and rule me, "O cloud-coloured One, O Dancer with the pots, Kanna of me, sinner, Kanna, my Lord of the universe," You who are in the heavens, on the earth, in the wide-watered sea and everywhere else: come one day and appear, so that I, Your servant, may see Your feet.
Word by word
- kuṭakkūttā
- O Dancer with the pots
- aṇṭa vāṇā
- Lord of the universe
- āḷak kūppiṭṭu aḻaittakkāl
- when I call You to rule me
- viri nīrk kaṭal
- the wide-watered sea
- uṉ kaḻalkāṇa
- to see Your feet
- vantu tōṉṟāyē
- come and appear
Tiruvaymozhi 8.5.7 · verse 3613 of the four thousand
Meaning
Come and appear; or else, as I hurry forward and stand beneath the flower feet that measured the world, call me to Your presence and take my service. O Lord whose cool red lotus eyes, hands and feet and red mouth make You look like a dark sun that has blossomed, spreading its endless rays!
Word by word
- vaiyam tāya malar aṭikkīḻ
- beneath the flower feet that measured the world
- munti vantu
- hurrying forward
- kūvip paṇikkoḷḷāy
- call me and take my service
- centaṇ kamalak kaṇ
- cool red lotus eyes
- karu nāyiṟu
- a dark sun
- antam illāk katir
- endless rays
Tiruvaymozhi 8.5.8 · verse 3614 of the four thousand
Meaning
"That is like my Lord's form," I say, my heart melting, and day after day, each time I see the gathered herds of clouds, I am undone. O peerless charioteer of the fine chariot, who once went into battle for the worthy five, to lay low the hundred! Will You not come? Is this fitting?
Word by word
- okkum ammāṉ uruvam
- it is like my Lord's form
- uḷḷam kuḻaintu
- heart melting
- mēkap pal kuḻāṅkaḷ
- many herds of clouds
- tolaivaṉ nāṉ
- I am undone
- takka aivar
- the worthy five, the Pandavas
- īr aimpatiṉmar
- the hundred, the Kauravas
- taṉippākā
- O peerless charioteer
Tiruvaymozhi 8.5.9 · verse 3615 of the four thousand
Meaning
"Is this fitting? O You with the flashing discus as Your weapon! You who raised as Your banner the great-winged bird You ride!" So I cry and weep again and again. What can He be thinking of, the wondrous One born in Northern Mathura of honey-dripping groves, to ease the burden of this great earth?
Word by word
- miṉ āḻip paṭaiyāy
- You with the flashing discus as weapon
- irum ciṟaippuḷ
- the great-winged bird, Garuda
- etuvēyākak karutuṅkol
- what can He be thinking?
- poṟai tīrppāṉ
- to ease the burden
- matu vār cōlai
- honey-dripping groves
- maturaip piṟanta māyaṉē
- the wondrous One born in Mathura
Tiruvaymozhi 8.5.10 · verse 3616 of the four thousand
Meaning
Wondrous One who was born among us! Wondrous One who fought the Bharata war! Great Lord who, just as You are, became the fine wind, fire, water, sky, earth and all else! Like ghee within milk just drawn, You are within all these, everywhere, if one looks. Great wondrous One who also stands beyond them all, where shall I see You?
Word by word
- pāratam poruta māyā
- wondrous One who fought the Bharata war
- kāl tī nīr vāṉ maṇ
- wind, fire, water, sky, earth
- kaṟanta pāluḷ neyyē pōl
- like ghee within fresh-drawn milk
- iṟantu niṉṟa
- standing beyond them all
- eṅkē kāṇkēṉē
- where shall I see You?
Tiruvaymozhi 8.5.11 · verse 3617 of the four thousand
Meaning
"Where shall I see my Lord who wears the sweet tulasi?" So, again and again, in words humbled with longing, Satakopan (Nammalwar) of lovely, cool Kurugur sang a thousand fine verses. Those who can recite these ten among them will see Him here, in this very birth, and rejoice night and morning.
Word by word
- īṉ tuḻāy ammāṉ
- the Lord who wears sweet tulasi
- tāḻnta coṟkaḷāl
- with humbled words
- am taṇ kurukūr
- lovely, cool Thirukkurugur
- ceṅkēḻ
- fine, beautiful
- ip piṟappē makiḻvar
- will rejoice in this very birth
- elliyum kālaiyē
- night and morning
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.