Tiruppallandu 3 · verse 3 of the four thousand
vāḻāṭpaṭṭu niṉṟīr uḷḷīrēl vantumaṇṇum maṇamum koṇmiṉkūḻāṭpaṭṭu niṉṟīrkaḷai eṅkaḷkuḻuviṉiṟ pukutaloṭṭōmēḻāṭkālum paḻippu ilōm nāṅkaḷirākkatar vāḻ ilaṅkaipāḻāḷ ākap paṭai porutāṉukkuppallāṇṭu kūṟutumē
Meaning
If you would live as His servants, come and take up the sacred earth and the fragrant work of His festival. But those who stand as servants only for their food, we will not let into our company. We have no blemish for seven generations. We sing pallandu, "many years", to Him who fought with His army until Lanka, where the rakshasas lived, became a ruin.
Word by word
- vāḻāṭpaṭṭu niṉṟīr
- you who stand as servants for the true life of service
- maṇṇum maṇamum koṇmiṉ
- take up the sacred earth and the festive work
- kūḻāṭpaṭṭu
- serving only for gruel, for one's own gain
- kuḻuviṉiṟ pukutaloṭṭōm
- we will not let you enter our company
- ēḻāṭkālum paḻippu ilōm
- blameless through seven generations
- irākkatar vāḻ ilaṅkai
- Lanka, where the rakshasas lived
- pāḻāḷ āka
- so that it became a ruin
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.