481. It is dawn, the horizon is bright and the buffaloes
leave their small sheds and go to graze.
We have stopped the girls so that they will wait for you
and we have come to wake you up.
Get up, cheerful one!
If we sing His praise and worship the God of gods who split
open Asuran Kesi's mouth, when he came as a horse and fought
with the wrestlers and defeated them, if we went (to Him) and give our respects to ḥim, He would inquire (our needs) and He will say ŏ!, and He would help us.
Let us go and worship our Pāvai.
Velukkudi Sri. U. Ve. Krishnan Swami’s Upanyasam
TP.1.8
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.)
"It is becoming bright in the East, yet you remain asleep," lament the gopikās as they endeavor to rouse a fellow gopikā.
_"The East has not become bright. Your visages, resembling the moon as described in the pāsuram 'thingal̤ tiru mugaththu cē il̤aiyār', cast such radiance eastward, creating an illusion of dawn. This is anyathā-jñānam,