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?”
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