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This hymn was composed after he had settled down in Tillai, his active life finished, and was waiting for the great release. He surveys, as he was so fond of doing, the whole course along which his Master had guided him; acknowledges how often he had fallen through an undisciplined and unpurified mind; and records […]
1) How may I join my friends beyond? Th’ Immortals all have gained Thy flower-like feet, bright as the lightning’s glance;- have crossed The world’s wide sea, and bearing golden flowers they praise ! Reveal in love, I pray,- Thou Refuge of the stony worthless heart, how one like me,- distressed,- cast off,- Sunk in […]
It was no easy taks to work out a version of this lyric, the rhythmic beauty of which is very remarkable. I have striven, at the risk of sundry irregularities in metre, to imitate the flow of the original; but the numberless allusions in a poem, which sums up the whole Caivite idea of the […]
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 […]
This is our Sage’s wonderful ‘psalm of the up-going,’ He commemorates his first visit to Tillai, and thence mystically sets forth the soul’s pilgrimage through the world of sense to union with Civan on the silver mountain. 1) The setting-forth on the journey Our King with head flow’r-wreath’d, BHUYANGAN-LORD, by mercy’s swelling flood that all […]
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 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) I praise none but Thee. O Thou Whose way Ayan, from flow’ry lotus sprung, knows not, nor Mal ! Partner of her whose swelling bosom wears the Gongu flower ! Whose form White ash displays ! Owner of blest Arur, begrit with lofty wall ! Saving Thy flower-like feet, nought else will I Thy […]
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 […]
