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THIRUVEMPAVAI - DAY THIRTEEN - SONG THIRTEEN
Transliteration
painkuvaLaik kArmalarAl cenkamalap paimpOthAl
ankam kurukinaththAl pinnum aravaththAl
thankaL malam kaணuvuvAr vanthu cArthalinAl
enkaL pirAttiyum em kOmAnum pOnRu icaintha
ponkum matuviRp pukap pAynthu pAynthu nam
cankam cilampac cilampu kalanthArppak
konkaikal ponkak kutaiyum punal ponka
pankayap pUmpunal pAynthu AtElOrempAvAy.
Translation
The pond and our Lord with His Consort are similar.
There are the kuvalai flowers along with the red lotus.
There are the birds and the snakes.
There are those who seek them to cleanse themselves.
As we dive and dive again into the waters
Our bangles jingle and our anklets join the jingle.
Our breasts become taut and water foams out.
Let us dive into the lotus covered pond.
The thirteenth song of Thiruvempavai has felicity of phrase as well as that
of meaning.
Kuvalai is a blue flower. Lotus and kuvalai are both water plants. Birds
gather around the pond. There are also snakes. People seek the pond to wash
themselves of dirt and grime.
The blue of the kuvalai is the colour of God’s consort. Siva is fiery fair
in colour like the lotus. Siva is surrounded by birds. Snakes lie coiled
around His neck. People who seek God do so to cleanse themselves of the
imputies of embodied life.
The scene can be looked in a different way too. The eyes of the maids are
kuvalai shaped and as beautiful as the lotus. They reach the pond with their
jingling bangles. They chant the piranava OM as they bathe in the pond.
Subject to three such interpretations, the first two lines of the song along
with the next two lines bring out a beautiful parallel between the pond and
God in the form of male and female combination, God and His consort.
The proposal is to dive again and again into the pond and bathe. In effect
it means getting immersed in the waters of the grace of God. The graphic
evocation is complete with the reference to the brimming of the breasts
along with the upsurge of water.
The pond becoming the Lord with His consort is the magic of poetry.
God with His consort bestows all that is prayed for. That makes Manivacakar
describe the marriage scene of God thus:
The four Vedas sound around; Music spreads everywhere;
Brahma, to four headed god performs the rituals.
The ultimate Yogi took the fair hand of the Mother of all worlds
Sealing the marriage with the bridal sutra.
Here is another song that describes the form of God and His consort in one.
See dear, Thillai Chirrampalavan dancing happily in the south
Took pleasure in having the woman as his half, the madcap.
If He has not accorded half His form to her,
How could the worlds have sustained?
The following are a few lines from AinkuRunURu, a composition of the Canka
Period.
Below the Feet of the One
Who has accorded half His form to the Blue hued Lady
The three worlds came to exist in order.
Thus the thirteenth song of Thiruvempavai has felicity of both words and
sense.
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