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Our poet-sage, like S. Anthony of Padua, and some other medieval saints, had a great sympathy with the irrational creation. This poem is addressed to the humming bee, or winged beetles, which abound in all the topes and glads of South India, and are especially numerous in the shady groves that surround the temples;; having […]
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, […]
The remarks made in the introduction to VII will apply in Some degree to this poem also, which is traditionally said to have been composed at the same place and time by the bard, who seeing women in great numbers enjoying their favorite game of Ammanai and accompanying it a simple song, listened to their […]
The mystic ‘Song of the Maidens’ forms a pendant to the ‘Morning Hymn’ (XX). It has always been attributed to Manikka-vacagar without any hesitation, though in many respects it is certainly unlike most of his other lyrics. It is said to have been composed for the use of the women at Arunacalam, among whom it […]
This title, which forms the burthen of the poem, is given to one of the Sage’s most interesting compositions. It consists of fifty quatrains, constructed in a beautiful metre (see my Second Grammar 192) which is in fact epichoriambic (as is explained in the notes to the Tamil text). It is called Anthathi poem. This […]
(composed in Tillai, tiru vatavurar puranam, v. 62) The sacred foot that danced in Tillai’s city old Is His, Who in all varied lives has energized; Revealed in beauty of innumerous, varied qualities; In earth, in sky, and in celestial worlds. All ordered lore hath He revealed, and He made void. || 5 || My […]
This has always been considered the first of Manikka-vacagar’s poems, and it has all the characteristics of a preface, as enumerated in the Nannul; but its very technical completeness makes its genuineness doubtful; and it rather apperars to have been added by the Tillai assembly when the lyrics of the Saint were first collected. In […]
Introduction to the Sacred Cento This remarkable poem contains a hundred especially flowing and harmonious verses of varying metres. These are divided into ten decades, and the whole are connected by the law which requires that the last word of each verse shall begin the following verse. The whole ten lyrics with their hundred verses […]
THE CREATION OF THE WORLD. HE CAUSED THE PHENOMENAL UNIVERSE TO APPEAR. || This seems to the translator to read more like a work of Umapathi, than of our sage! || Lines 1-10 The Feet of Civan: While the Four-faced and other heavenly dwellers rose, Adoring, sacred MAl, whose head with rays is crowned, With […]
This poem has an introduction of twenty eight lines, after which the praises of Civan are intermingled with somewhat intricate but ingenious allegories. The whole partakes of the nature of a rhapsody, – not without some sublimity, – and can be fully appreciated by those only who have studied the whole Caiva system as shown […]
