Chapter 7
The mother worries about her young daughter - (ஐய புழுதி)
நற்றாய் இரங்கல்
Just as a mother speaks of the suffering her daughter endures due to her love for Krishna, the āzhvār, embodying that mother, narrates and experiences these feelings. This hymn conveys the girl's condition, the words spoken about her by the townsfolk, and her desire to have her wedding in her own home, even though it is a small one (verse 10).
கண்ணன்மீது மையல் கொண்டு தன் மகள் படும்பாட்டைத் தாய் கூறுவதுபோல், ஆழ்வாரும் அப்பெண்ணின் தாயாகவே இருந்துகொண்டு கூறி அனுபவிக்கிறார். பெண்ணின் நிலை, அவளைப் பற்றி ஊரார் கூறும் சொல் ஆகியவற்றையும், தன் வீடு சிறிய வீடாக இருந்தாலும், பெண்ணின் திருமணத்தை வீட்டிலேயே செய்யவேண்டும் என்ற அவளது கருத்தையும் (பாடல் 10) இத்திருமொழி அறிவிக்கிறது.
Verses: 286 to 296
Grammar: Aṟuchīrk Kaḻinediladi Āsiriya Viruththam / அறுசீர்க் கழிநெடிலடி ஆசிரிய விருத்தம்
Recital benefits: Getting freed from all hurdles
- Verse 1:
286. She plays on the sand and makes herself dirty. She prattles like a baby. She doesn’t know how to wear her lovely dress made with fine thread. She has never gone out of our front yard with a small play pot in her hands, Yet she comes home, holding the hands of the one who rests on the snake Adishesha, - Verse 2:
287. Her teeth have not grown out yet, her hair is not yet thick enough to plait, and she plays with sparse-haired still innocent children. But now she has made friends with naughty girls and says that they are good children like her. She has fallen in love with Māyan, the beautiful sapphire-colored lord. - Verse 3:
288. Even when she tries to make a play house on the white sand in the front yard of her house, she cannot make it without drawing pictures of a conch, a wheel, a club, a sword and a bow. She is not fully grown up But my heart worries every day because she is in love with Govindan. - Verse 4:
289. Oh! what shall I say!! My innocent daughter has been tricked by her friends, who have taken her away. To whom shall I say about Kannan? By his mischief, the lord who holds a discus(chakra) in His hands, has pushed my daughter into the deep water of love. Oh! the saying is that the spoon that scoops the porridge doesn’t know how much salt is in the porridge. My daughter is an example for this. - Verse 5:
290. She wears fragrant thulasi garlands and goes to all the cities and lands where Nārāyanān stays and searches for him. There are many who entertain bad thoughts Confused, they say, “ She is close to Kesavan. Keep her in a guarded place, under watch” Why is the world like this? - Verse 6:
291. I decorated her with a forehead ornament, golden ear rings, a padagam ornament and anklets and raised her with love, but she doesn’t want to stay with me now. She has left me and just keeps saying, “Puvai puvanna!” O girls with long thick hair, see, she is in love with him. - Verse 7:
292. I am an innocent mother and she is my innocent daughter who doesn't know to disobey. Now she lacks shame and is like a spoon that gets loose from its hold and spills food everywhere without knowing what it is doing. Shameless, she mutters like a parrot saying, “Kesava, you are faultless!” O girls with long fragrant hair, she is fascinated with him and has fallen in love. - Verse 8:
293. She wears pretty clothes and looks at herself in the mirror. The bangles on her hand jingle as she moves her hands She wears a new sari and sighs. She decorates her red mouth as sweet as a kovvai fruit. She does the same thing again and again. She raves about Him who has a thousand names and His omnipotence. She is in love with the sapphire-colored lord who has no hatred for anyone. - Verse 9:
294. What is the use if I save abundant wealth and wish to spend it on her marriage? It only hurts me. She is like a tender shoot that grows on a field Like the owner of that land, He can do whatever he wants with her. Take her to the place of the beautiful one who has the color of the dark cloud and leave her there. - Verse 10:
295. We did all the auspicious ceremonies that we were supposed to do for her and kept her in our home thinking that she would stay there, but she wants to do something else and is anxious to leave home. Before others think that parents haven't taken steps to treat her disease, let her go to Him who went to Mahābali as a dwarf and measured the world. - Verse 11:
296. Vishnuchithan, the chief of Puduvai surrounded with beautiful flower gardens composed a garland of ten pāsurams about a mother who describes her daughter's love for Nārāyanān who swallowed the whole earth and rests on a banyan leaf. Those who recite these pāsurams will have no trouble in their lives.