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This purports to have been composed immediately after his return to Perun-turrai, when he was hoping for speedy consummation, but felt impatient. 1) How shall I endure this state of imperfection? What shall I do while twofold deeds’ fierce flame burns still out,- Nor doth the body melt,- nor falsehood fall to dust ? In […]
1) Civan a light The God of gods; the Warrior true; south Perun-turrai’s Chieftain dear; The First; the Blissful One, Whose forn the Three could not attain to know; The Flower full-blown of LIGHT is He, to all save to His loving ones, unknown ! UPON HIS MIGHTY ROSEATE FOOT’S PURE FLOWER OUR HEADS SHALL […]
[THE GROWTH OF RAPTURE] —– The Lyric of the Sacred Pandi.- Note IV should be studied as introductory to this very dramatic poem, which is in every way a remarkable composition; yet I should hardly venture to affirm that Manikka-Vacagar was its author. In order to understand it, it is necessary to call to mind […]
1) Heretics. Not the sleek snake in anthill coil’d I dread; nor feigned truth of men of lies,- As I, in sooth, feel fear at night of those who have not learnt the Lofty-One To know; who near the Foot of the Brow-Ey’d,- our Lord, crown’d with the braided-lock,- Yet think there’s other God. When […]
RAPTURE OF LIFE IN CIVAN 1) His praises. Partner of Umai’s loveliness! Destroyer of the ‘deeds’ That to this frame cling fast! Thou Guardian of the Bull! Who dwell’st In Perun-turrai’s sacred shrine by well-skilled bards extolled! When shall I joy, O when exulting sing, henceforth, I too? || 4 || 2) His condescending love. […]
THE SIGHT OF THE ‘GURU.’ —– This is one of the places which the Sage is said to have visited before seeing Cithambaram. It would appear that here he had some peculiar manifestation of the god, who had revealed himself to him in Perun-turrai. It is open to conjecture that the Guru, whom he regarded […]
The T.V.U.P states that this was one of the earliest of the Sage’s poems, and that it was sung at Tiru-perun-turrai. It certainly bears the impress of youth, and in many respects is inferior to some of his later poems. It is said to have for its subject the purification of the soul from the […]
1) I long for Thy summons, O flawless Gem, who gav’st the wealth of Thine own roseate feet,- By the kite-banner’d King unseen,- and here mad’st me Thine own! My darkness drive far off; say ‘hither come’! The grace to gain That calls me there to dwell, BEHOLD, O SIRE, MY SOUL HATH YEARN’D! || […]
1) The Mistress dwells in midmost of Thyself; within the Mistress centred dwellest Thou; Midst of Thy servant if Ye Both do dwell, to me Thy servant ever give the grace Amidst Thy lowliest servants to abide; our Primal Lord, Whose Being knows no end, Who dwellest in the sacred golden porch, still present to […]
In the Vathavurar Puranam V, 63, we are told that the Sage when in Tillai saw women pounding the gold dust which, mixed with perfumes, is strewn on the heads of distinguished visitors to the shrine, and on great occasions is lavishly thrown over all things and persons connected with the worship. As they pounded, […]
