Just as he was addressing the stork, the Āzhvār heard the Aṉṟil birds in the neighbouring palmyra tree, crying out their agony of separation, as and when their bills got unlocked during sleep, vide also the preamble to this decad. The Āzhvār extends his sympathy to these birds, looking upon them as comrades-in-distress.
In this second pāśuram, the Āzhvār, in the state of Parāṅkuśa Nāyakī, continues to experience the profound sorrow of separation from Emperumān. While she was addressing a crane in the preceding verse, her attention is now captured by the mournful cry of an anṟil bird (an ibis) perched upon a nearby palmyra tree. Hearing the heart-rending sound of the bird separated