Moondram Tiruvandadi 41 · verse 2322 of the four thousand
Meaning
His enduring jewelled crown rose high into the heavens; His feet covered all eight directions and every crowded grove; wearing lightning as His garment, He measured the world that day. He is the King who held up the hill as an umbrella and protected the cows.
Word by word
- maṉṉu maṇi muṭi
- His enduring jewelled crown
- aṇṭam pōy
- rising into the heavens
- cūḻ kaḻalē
- His feet spread all around
- miṉṉai uṭaiyākak koṇṭu
- wearing lightning as His garment
- kuṉṟam kuṭaiyāka
- the hill as an umbrella
- ā kātta kō
- the King who protected the cows
Moondram Tiruvandadi 42 · verse 2323 of the four thousand
Meaning
As a cowherd He grazed the herds of cattle and played the flute; with great might He tore apart the demon horse, He whose colour is the sapphire. And taking the form of the lion Narasimha, He gladly tore open the chest of Hiranya with His sharp claws: such was His anger.
Word by word
- kōvalaṉāy
- as a cowherd
- ā niraikaḷ mēyttu
- grazing the herds of cattle
- kuḻal ūti
- playing the flute
- maṇi vaṇṇaṉ
- He whose colour is the sapphire
- ari uruvam āki
- taking the lion's form, Narasimha
- teri ukirāl
- with sharp, chosen claws
- ciṉam
- His anger
Moondram Tiruvandadi 43 · verse 2324 of the four thousand
Meaning
He broke the strong tusk of the angry, rutting great elephant. The earth with all its fields He holds within His broad chest as His own treasure, He who wears a great garland. The whole world lies within the breadth of that one chest.
Word by word
- ciṉa mā mata kaḷiṟṟiṉ
- of the angry, great rutting elephant
- tiṇ maruppaic cāyttu
- breaking its strong tusk
- puṉam mēya pūmi
- the earth with its fields
- taṉamāka
- as His own treasure
- pēr āra mārvaṉār
- He who wears a great garland on His chest
- ōr akalattu uḷḷatu ulaku
- the world lies within that one broad chest
Moondram Tiruvandadi 44 · verse 2325 of the four thousand
Meaning
He becomes the world, the ages, the ocean, the brightly coloured sun with its spreading rays, and the red fire. O my heart, swell with joy and give yourself wholly to the twin feet of Him whose crown of fresh gold spreads many rays.
Word by word
- ulakamum ūḻiyum āḻiyum
- the world, the ages and the ocean
- alar katirum
- the sun with its spreading rays
- centīyum āvāṉ
- He becomes the red fire
- paim poṉ muṭiyāṉ
- He of the crown of fresh gold
- aṭi iṇaikkē
- to His twin feet
- pūrittu eṉ neñcē puri
- O my heart, swell with joy and devote yourself
Moondram Tiruvandadi 45 · verse 2326 of the four thousand
Meaning
There a rutting tusker, sulking in love with his great mate, wanders off and fights in anger, and pearls fall from his white tusks of spreading glory. That Thiruvenkatam is the hill of Him who once lifted the earth on His tusk, as Varaha.
Word by word
- mata vēḻam
- the rutting tusker
- māp piṭiyōṭu ūṭi
- sulking in love with his great mate
- ciṉattāl porutu
- fighting in anger
- veṇ kōṭṭu muttu utirkkum
- where pearls fall from white tusks
- vēṅkaṭamē
- Thiruvenkatam itself
- maṇ kōṭṭuk koṇṭāṉ malai
- the hill of Him who lifted the earth on His tusk
Moondram Tiruvandadi 46 · verse 2327 of the four thousand
Meaning
Setting the mountain Mandara in the sea, winding the serpent Vasuki around it, and Himself holding the head end with one hand, He churned the ocean that day, as the crests of the waves rose to the heavens and the waters splashed. Such is the Lord who stood there in His mighty form.
Word by word
- malai mukaṭu
- the mountain peak, Mandara
- vācukiyaic cuṟṟi
- winding the serpent Vasuki around
- talai mukaṭu
- the head end
- alai mukaṭṭu
- the crests of the waves
- aṉṟu kaṭal kaṭaintāṉ
- He churned the ocean that day
- piṇṭamāy niṉṟa pirāṉ
- the Lord who stood in a mighty form
Moondram Tiruvandadi 47 · verse 2328 of the four thousand
Meaning
O Lord who stands among us! O Lord who received the water and strode across all the worlds! O red-eyed one! O You with the tulasi crown, who that day tore open the horse's mouth! You are also the one who has torn open the mouth of the hell that waited for us.
Word by word
- niṉṟa perumāṉē
- O Lord who stands among us
- ulaku ellām ceṉṟa
- who strode across all the worlds
- ceṅkaṇṇā
- O red-eyed one
- turaka vāy kīṇṭa
- who tore open the horse's mouth (Kesi)
- tuḻāy muṭiyāy
- O You with the tulasi crown
- naraka vāy kīṇṭāyum nī
- You also tore open the mouth of our hell
Moondram Tiruvandadi 48 · verse 2329 of the four thousand
Meaning
Was it not You who received the water and measured the world with Your feet? Was it not You who stood out in the fields and grazed the herds? Was it not You who tore apart the demon horse, went between the great marutu trees, and fought and destroyed the demons in the war of the gods and the demons?
Word by word
- nī aṉṟē
- was it not You?
- ulakam aṭi aḷantāy
- measured the world with Your feet
- nirai mēyttāy
- grazed the herds
- mā vāy uram piḷantu
- tearing apart the horse's mouth
- mā marutiṉ ūṭu pōy
- going between the great marutu trees
- tēvācuram porutāy
- You fought the war of gods and demons
Moondram Tiruvandadi 49 · verse 2330 of the four thousand
Meaning
O You who hold the mighty conch with its curling whorls! Your destroying of Hiranya, who would never yield to You; Your going and asking for the great earth and winning it; and for Nappinnai, Your standing before the full-grown bulls and breaking their strength: all of this You did with deliberate design.
Word by word
- cērā iraṇiyaṉai
- Hiranya, who would never yield to You
- ceṉṟu ēṟṟup peṟṟatuvum
- going, asking and winning
- piṉṉaikku āy
- for the sake of Nappinnai
- muri ēṟṟiṉ
- of the bulls with broken horns
- moympu oḻittāy
- You broke their strength
- curi ēṟu caṅkiṉāy
- O You of the conch with curling whorls
Moondram Tiruvandadi 50 · verse 2331 of the four thousand
Meaning
Mal, with His garland of tulasi winding around Him and His radiant jewelled crown, killed the great crocodile that had grown in the deep, gem-clear pool on the broad mountain where the waterfalls pour down: He of the beautiful blue colour.
Word by word
- tuḻāy alaṅkal
- a garland of tulasi
- cōti maṇi muṭi māl
- Mal, with His radiant jewelled crown
- taṭa varaivāy
- on the broad mountain
- maṇi nīrc cuṉai
- the gem-clear pool
- mā mutalai koṉṟāṉ
- He killed the great crocodile, saving the elephant
- aṇi nīla vaṇṇattavaṉ
- He of the beautiful blue colour
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.