Tiruppallandu 1 · verse 1 of the four thousand
pallāṇṭu pallāṇṭu pallāyirattāṇṭupalakōṭi nūṟāyirammallāṇṭa tiṇtōḷ maṇivaṇṇā! uṉcevvaṭi cevvi tirukkāppu
Meaning
May You live for many years, many years, many thousands of years, for countless crores of hundreds of thousands of years! O Lord with strong shoulders that overcame the wrestlers, O Lord whose colour is the sapphire's, may protection rest on the beauty of Your red, holy feet.
Word by word
- pallāṇṭu
- many years: a blessing of long life
- mallāṇṭa tiṇ tōḷ
- strong shoulders that overcame the wrestlers, as Krishna did in Mathura
- maṇivaṇṇā
- O Lord whose colour is like a sapphire
- cevvaṭi
- red, beautiful feet
- cevvi
- their beauty
- tirukkāppu
- holy protection
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.