3923. O mind, we were born limitless times in this world
and have suffered for many years, days,
and months, and in the present.
We approach the ornamented feet of the god of Thennathi, praised and loved by.
Word by Word (WBW) meaning
(The words may be rearranged to facilitate poetry to prose conversion (Aṉvayam). Please read the meanings (in black) continiously to form the sentence and understand the simple meaning of those verse.)
manamĕ — ŏh the mind which is together with me in both the times of bondage and liberation (bandham and mŏksham); nāl̤ay — by days; thingal̤āy — by months; āṇdugal̤āy — by years; nigazh kālam ellām — been here, life running in all such times,; eeṇdu — gathered in various such times/forms (lived as humans etc., where we lived in years, months, days, and innumerable such births; ŏr, like being born in life forms that live for a few days only, few months only, etc., ); pal — in various different; yŏnigal̤ thŏṛum — birth categories, in each such manner,; uzhalvŏm — we, who take on various bodies (births) repeatedly; inṛu ŏr eṇ inṛiyĕ — (eṇ thoughts) today when not having any (better) thoughts in the mind (to do something to break the cycle of birth, etc., or try some means for that, etc.); was doing same things as before; there was not something that ī could do;; thŏl̤ — having such divine shoulders, so is desirable by the quality of beauty as well,; kāṇ thagu — which befit seeing,; aṇṇal — our master as spelled out (in the vĕdhas etc.); then — who is beautiful to see; aththiyūrar — who is named based on aththiyūr (hasthigiri kāncheepuram), as aththiyūrar, that is, pĕrarul̤āl̤ap perumāl̤ (varadharājap perumāl̤); his; iṇai — (each divine foot) which can be compared only to each other;; kazhal keezh — under such divine feet; pūṇda — having attachment; anbāl̤an — and having friendship/love; irāmānusanai — that is emperumānār;; porundhinamĕ — we (the mind and me) got to reach such emperumānār.