2001. O friend, see!
He went as a dwarf to king Mahabali’s sacrifice,
asked for three feet of land, tricked the king, grew tall
and measured the world and the sky with his two feet.
Even though he is the god of Thiruvellam and Thiruvenkatam,
he is in the heart of the poet Kaliyan. Sāzhale.
Word by Word (WBW) meaning
(The words may be rearranged to facilitate conversion from poetry to prose (Aṉvayam). Please read the meanings (in black) continuously to form the sentence and understand the simplified meaning based on the Divyārtha Dīpikai for the verse.)