1876. “Our king Rāvana carried a long spear
with a leaf-shaped blade and ran from the battlefield.
We wanted to survive and have come to you.
We will not fight with your king or with all of you.
Together as a group we dance. Kuzhamani thuurame!”
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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 simple meaning of those verse.)