2681. “But whatever my mother did,
it didn’t remove the sorrow from my mind
or the pain of my love.
Some older mothers who saw how I suffered
how my body grew pale advised her,
‘Take her to a fortune teller
who can tell you how to remove her sickness.
She may tell you the truth. ’ 9
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.)
adhanālum en sindhai nŏy thīrādhu — despite that, my mental illness has not been cured.; en pĕdhuṛavu thīrādhu — my distress [bewilderment] too has not been cured.; māmai vārādhu — the colour of my form, which ī lost, has not returned.; maṝu — further; āngĕ ārānum mūdhu aṛiyum ammanaimār — some old women who were there, familiar with stories of old [happenings of past]; adhu kaṇdu — looking at my state; solluvār — started speaking (to provide means for overcoming my disease).; pārŏr solappadum kattuppaduththir ĕl ārānum meyppaduvan enṛār — they (old women) said “ṭhere is a practice called as fortune-telling [predicting as to what will happen in future], among the people. īf you carry this out, whoever (had created this disease) would be revealed truthfully”.