Chapter 4
Seerkāzi SriRamavinnaharam - (ஒரு குறள்)
திருக்காழிச் சீராமவிண்ணகரம்
The town of Sirkazhi is located in Tanjavur district. The āzhvār refers to this town as Kazhicheerama Vinnagaram. This is also the place where the great Saiva saint Thirugnanasambandar lived.
சீர்காழி என்னும் ஊர் தஞ்சாவூர் மாவட்டத்தில் உள்ளது. இவ்வூரைக் காழிச்சீராம விண்ணகரம் என்று ஆழ்வார் பெயரிட்டு அழைக்கிறார். இவ்வூரில்தான் திருஞானசம்பந்தர் என்னும் சைவ சமயப் பெரியாரும் வாழ்ந்து வந்தார்.
Verses: 1178 to 1187
Grammar: Eṇcīrk Kaḻinediladi Āsiriya Viruththam / எண்சீர்க் கழிநெடிலடி ஆசிரிய விருத்தம்
Pan: மேகராகக்குறிஞ்சி
- Verse 1:
1178. The one and only Lord who went to Mahabali’s sacrifice as a dwarf, took three feet of land from the king, measured the earth and the sky with his two feet and kept the king as his slave stays in ShriRāmavinnagaram where reciters of the four Vedās and the six Upanishads perform the five sacrifices and the people sing the seven kinds of music and celebrate many festivals on the streets. Go to that temple and worship his feet. - Verse 2:
1179. Our father who removed the pride of Nānmuhan with the help of the famous sage Romasa and took away the curse that had made Shivā a beggar, causing Nānmuhan’s skull to fall from his hand stays in ShriRāmavinnagaram surrounded with fields where lotuses bloom dripping with honey, fish frolic in ponds and cranes that see the pearls from the conches think they are their eggs and, going near them, stay there. O devotees, go to his temple and worship his shining lotus feet. - Verse 3:
1180. The lord who took the form of a boar with sharp horns, split open the earth and brought the earth goddess from the underworld, and cut off the thousand strong arms of Vānāsuram with his sharp discus smeared with oil stays in ShriRāmavinnagaram where the women who work in the fields see the flowers of neytal and kuvalai plants and think they are eyes and see the blooming kumudam flowers and think they are mouths, and, not realizing they are weeds, they go away without plucking them. O devotees, go to that temple and worship his feet. - Verse 4:
1181. Our lord who conquered the seven bulls to marry Nappinnai with soft cotton-like feet. and who split open the golden ornamented chest of Hiranyan with his sharp claws as the blood gushed out of the Rākshasa’s body stays in beautiful ShriRāmavinnagaram where the sapphire stones studding the palaces increase the color of the darkness, and the pearls studding the palaces give light like the cool moon and the corals studding the palaces give red light like the sun. O devotees, go to that temple and worship the feet of the faultless god. . - Verse 5:
1182. The lord who was born as ParasuRāma on the earth, fought with his enemies and performed the final ceremonies for his ancestor with their blood, and who conquered the Asuran Kesi and killed the elephant Kuvalayābeedam stays in beautiful ShriRāmavinnagaram surrounded with fields where neydal flowers bloom like the eyes of women, lotuses blooms like their faces and red lilies bloom like their red mouths. O devotees, go and worship the feet of the god of the gods. - Verse 6:
1183. As Rāma our god who shot his arrows, fought with strong, red-faced Vāli, the king of the monkeys, conquered the army of Kavandan and killed cruel-eyed Virādan. He stays in beautiful ShriRāmavinnagaram where women with waists like tudi drums and lotus faces stay with their friends in the shining palaces that are tall as mountains and where the moon sweating with drops of dew looks like a woman’s lotus face. O devotees, go and worship the feet of the god of the gods. - Verse 7:
1184. Our lord who went to Lankā, fought with his arrows and made the ten heads of king Rāvana fall to the earth, so the place looked like a broken, scattered anthill, stays in ShriRāmavinnagaram in Sheerkāzhi where the rain water in the channels carries curved conches and moves through screw pine plants and fields and those conches give birth to pearls on the streets. O devotees, go to the temple in Sheerkāzhi and worship the feet of the lord with a heroic bow and a conch. - Verse 8:
1185. Our lord brought the Parijada tree from Indra's garden when his wife Satyabama who had a beautiful waist, a red coral mouth, round bamboo like arms, long eyes, sweet milk-like words and thick hair adorned with flowers dripping with honey. He stays in ShriRāmavinnagaram in Sheerkazhi filled with groves where squirrels play and jump on the dark long-leafed Kamugu trees and make the unripe fruits fall from them onto the jackfruits and the sweet juice from the jackfruits flows out all over. O devotees, go to that temple and worship the feet of Kannan. - Verse 9:
1186. O devotees, go and worship the feet of Kannan who keeps on his right side Shivā wearing the crescent moon in his matted hair, and on his navel, Nānmuhan on a lotus, and on his chest, Lakshmi whose eyes are as sharp as spears. He stays in ShriRāmavinnagaram in Sheerkazhi where bees with lovely wings live on kazuneer flowers on the banks of the water, embracing their mates, sleeping on lotuses and playing on the pollen of the screw pine flowers. O devotees, go to that temple and worship the feet of Kannan. - Verse 10:
1187. Kaliyan the chief of Thirumangai of Thiruvāli, who conquered and gained victory and is the beloved husband of his queens with hair adorned with beautiful flowers that drip honey, composed a garland of ten Tamil pāsurams on Thirumāl, the lord of ShriRāmavinnagaram in Sheerkazhi surrounded with fields blooming with lotuses where Vediyars live, as learned as Nānmuhan himself who stays on a lotus.