1232. Our lord with wide arms
who went to Lankā with his matchless bow,
smashed it to pieces and fought with Rāvana, its king,
making his ten heads and twenty arms fall to the earth
and brought back his wife, the gentle Sita
with a waist as thin as lightning
stays happily in Vaikundavinnagaram,
the temple in Nāngur where good paddy, red lotuses,
vālai fish and beautiful kazhuneer flowers
flourish all together in the fields
and where many Vediyars live,
reciters of the Vedās with everlasting fame.
O innocent heart, let us go there and worship him.
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.)
He is that Supreme Lord, the valiant Chakravartit Thirumagan (Emperor, Son of Daśaratha), whose mighty shoulders display His divine strength. It was He who, for the sake of His beloved consort, the tender-natured Piraṭṭi with a waist as slender as a flash of lightning, once wielded His magnificent and lofty bow, the Kōdaṇḍam. With this unparalleled weapon, He