488. The girls address her: “Oh! sweet-tongued, beautiful one
like a young parrot! What is this? Are you still asleep? Wake up.!”
She answers, “Don’t shout and wake me up.
I am a poor girl and you are as bright as lightning. I’m coming.”
They say, “We know your tricks. You always say this.”
She answers, “You are the clever ones.
Let me be what I am.”
They say, “Come quickly. We can’t wait for you. ”
She asks, “Have all our friends arrived?”
They say, “Yes, They’re all here. If you want, come and
count them.
Come and sing the praise of the Māyan, who killed the mighty
elephant, vanquished the enemies and made them surrender.
Let us go and worship our Pāvai.
Velukkudi Sri. U. Ve. Krishnan Swami’s Upanyasam
TP.1.15
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.)
When the gopikās asked the gopikā from the previous pāśuram to sing about Kaṇṇan, who has beautiful eyes and holds the śaṅkha (conch) and cakra (discus) in His divine hands, the gopikā in this pāśuram, lying in her bed, heard them and began to hum that song.
The sweet sound of her humming reached the ears of the other gopikās, and