1923 tuvar āṭai uṭuttu * ŏru cĕṇṭu ciluppi * kavar āka muṭittuk * kalik kaccuk kaṭṭi ** cuvar ār kataviṉ puṟame * vantu niṉṟīr * ivar ār? itu ĕṉ? * itu ĕṉ? itu ĕṉṉo?-2
Ragam
Usēni / உசேனி
Thalam
Jambai / ஜம்பை
Bhavam
Nāyaki (lovelorn lady)
Simple Translation
1923. A cowherd girl says to Kannan,
“You wear an orange dress, your hair is tied up in a knot
and you have tied a kachu around your waist.
You come near the door in the backyard and stand there.
What do you want? What is this? What is this?”
Word by Word (WBW) meaning
(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.)