708. “You are as sweet as the sugarcane juice
that comes from a sugarcane press, thālo.
Your big eyes are lovely as lotuses in the water, thālo.
Your color is like the water of the ocean, thālo.
You are the king who killed the elephant Kuvalayābeedam, thālo.
You are my son with handsome fragrant hair, thālo.
I am more unlucky than all other mothers
because I don’t have the good fortune
of singing a lullaby and saying “thālo, thālo” for you. ”
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(The words may be rearranged to facilitate poetry to prose conversion (Aṉvayam). Please read the meanings (in black) continiously to form the sentence and understand the simplified meaning of those verse.)