1208. Her mother says,
“Is he a thief? I don’t know who he is.
A dark one like a bull came to my daughter,
as innocent as a doe and with a waist thin as a vine,
and he said, ‘Come. ’
He took her hand ornamented with silver bangles and went with her.
She left me, her mother.
I gave birth to her but she went with him.
Will they go to the beautiful Thiruvāli
flourishing with muddy fields?”
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.)
Is he a thief, or is he her rightful owner? This, I do not know. A dark and youthful person of indescribable beauty came and, holding the hand of my exceedingly young and slender-waisted daughter, a hand adorned with silver bangles, he urged her, saying, "Come! Come now!" Leaving me, the very mother who bore her, utterly alone, will the two of them now enter the sacred