1212. Her mother says,
“My daughter with round arms and feet soft as cotton
doesn’t worry about me, her mother.
She fell in love with Madhavan, the Mayan, and left me.
She is as beautiful as a creeper
and walks like a female swan,
swinging her round bamboo-like arms.
Will they go to Punalāli? (Thiruvāli)”
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.)
My daughter, graced with magnificent, broad shoulders, shows no mercy towards me, her own mother, whose heart is consumed with the anguish of separation. She gives no thought to the fire of sorrow that burns within my soul. Instead, she has fixed her mind entirely upon the wondrous Lord, Śriyaḥpati, whose divine form and transcendent qualities are the perfect and sole