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1) No requital of electing grace The ancient fourfold mystic word draws not anigh His seat;- Nor Mal nor Ayan Him have seen; yet me, the most abject, By grace He made His servant ! To Gokari’s King, my heart, Say, is there any just return ? || 4 || 2) The great manifestation in […]
1) Strike the sounding drum of the Guru, Wielder of wisdom’s sword; Spread the white canopy over the Guru, Who mounts the charger of heaven; Enter and take to you armour of ashes, fragrant, divine; Possess we the heavenly fortress, where hosts of illusion come not ! || 4 || 2) Servants of His,- march […]
1) The gracious incarnation. The Lady’s Spouse; of mystic word Proclaimer skill’d; Light seen mid blooming flowers; the faultless Grace supreme; Who to His servants grants the boon of justic bright; the King of virtuous excellence Who reigns benign, In Perun-turrai girt with fragrant flowery groves;- Himself hath come, and on this earth, a gracious […]
The following decad was composed at Tiru-perun-turrai, and is probably one of the first sung by our bard. It is in some respects quite unique among his compositions, and certainly has not the flowing case and rapture of some of his subsequent verses; but perhaps it reveals more of himself than any other. It was […]
1) He enters on a life of absolute renunciation. The potsherd and the skull I deemed my kin; my soul dissolved; Wealth to be sought was Civan’s foot alone, I clearly saw; With soul and body to the earth in worship bent, a slave, I’VE REACH’D HIM WHERE HE DANCES, LORD OF TILLAI’S HOME OF […]
[‘ABSTRACTION FROM OBJECTIVE THOUGHT.’] 1) My iron mind full oftern didst Thou draw, and melt my frame; Thy feet to me didst show, as though the sweet cane’s pleasantness; Thou of the braided lock, where waters wander wave on wave! The jackals all Thou mad’st great horses; thus didst show Thy grace. || 4 || […]
This is one of the most characteristic of the Sage’s lyrics, and would seem to belong to a later period than that when the ‘cry of the forsaken’ (VI) was composed. It is in singular contrast to that lyric. He had meanwhile visited many shrines, and had passed through much struggle; but when he reached […]
[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 […]
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. […]
Tillai.- In the legends of the Sage it appears that he did not visit Tillai till he had seen the other shrines of Caiva worship, and had become renowned both as a devotee and as a poet. It almost appears as if there existed some rivalry between the great temple of the Pandiyan land in […]
