(i) Rock-candy is a delicious product of cane-juice and it is the Āzhvār’s figment of imagination that conceives of the Lord being as delicious as the fruit of the imaginary Rock-candy tree, (akkārakkaṉi is the term used in the original text of this song, to denote this imaginary fruit of an imaginary tree).
(ii) The versification, as above, conforms to the interpretation + Read more