Chapter 2
Thirukkudalur - (தாம் தம்)
திருக்கூடலூர்
This village is known as Aadhuthurai Perumal Kovil. Since the Devas gathered here in large numbers to worship and praise the Lord, this place is called Koodalur. The presiding deity here is known as Vaiyam Kaatha Perumal. This village is located seven miles east of Thiruvaiyaru.
இவ்வூருக்கு ஆடுதுறைப் பெருமாள் கோயில் என்று பெயர். தேவர்கள் கூட்டமாகக் கூடி பகவானைஇந்த எம்பெருமானை. வணங்கி வாழ்த்திய இடமாதலால் இவ்வூருக்குக் கூடலூர் என்று பெயர். இங்கிருக்கும் பெருமாளுக்கு வையம் காத்த பெருமாள் என்று பெயர். இவ்வூர் திருவையாற்றுக்குக் கிழக்கே ஏழு மைல் தொலைவில் உள்ளது.
Verses: 1358 to 1367
Grammar: Kaliviruththam / கலிவிருத்தம்
Recital benefits: Will not get affected by the results of karma
- Verse 1:
1358. Kudalur where beautiful girls with fingers as lovely as kāndal (flame lily) buds wear soft dresses and spread the fragrance from their hair everywhere is the place of the god who does not know his own greatness and went as a messenger for the Pāndavās. - Verse 2:
1359. Kudalur where bees drink sweet fragrant honey and sing kurinji songs is the place of the beautiful god who fought with the seven humped bulls and married Nappinnai, the daughter of a fisherman. - Verse 3:
1360. Kudalur where the cheating cranes steal kāyal fish in the fields is the place of the god who ate yogurt when he was a child and now has entered heart of me, his devotee. - Verse 4:
1361. Kudalur where the kol bees sing and drink honey from the flowers that adorn the hair of the farmers plowing the wet lands is the place of our father who, as if he were Yama, went as a dwarf, took three feet of land from king Mahabali and measured the earth and the sky at the sacrifice of the king. - Verse 5:
1362. Kudalur where the clouds thunder and kendai fish frolic and glisten in the water in the flourishing fields is the place of the god where devotees praised him as the moon and the shining sun went around him when he grew to the sky at the sacrifice of Mahābali. - Verse 6:
1363. Kudalur where mangoes fall from their trees everywhere onto mounds of sand is the place of the god who aided Shivā, the destroyer of the sacrifice of Daksha, removing his pain. - Verse 7:
1364. Kudalur where cool tender jasmine plants grow abundantly and embrace kurundam trees is the place of him who swallowed the world, the mountains and the cool dark oceans. - Verse 8:
1365. Kudalur where trees with tender coconuts bend down to the earth is where the god of Thiruneermalai stays and stags embrace their lovely does and live happily. - Verse 9:
1366. Kudalur where a kendai fish goes near a thazhai flower and is frightened that it might be a crane is the place of the matchless lord who came and entered this slave’s heart and melts it with abundant love for him. - Verse 10:
1367. Kaiyan composed ten pāsurams in Tamil on Kudalur where Kannan, colored like the ocean or a kāvi flower, stays and shines. If devotees learn and recite these pāsurams the results of their karmā will not come to them.