The Nāyakī is in the same predicament as Sītā during her captivity in Laṅkā. Sītā lamented that there was none in that hostile land who could help her with poison or a sharp knife to end her miserable life. There at least, Sītā could hear the heartening sound from Śrī Rāma’s (Kākuttaṉ’s) bow in the nearby battlefield, which disillusioned her and set her mind at ease, when
In this third pāśuram of the fourth chapter in the fifth decade, our revered pūrvācāryas—including Nañjīyar, Periyavāchchān Piḷḷai, and Nampiḷḷai—unanimously explain the state of Śrī Nammāzhvār. Immersed in the divine mood of Parāṅkuśa Nāyakī, the Āzhvār is overcome with profound sorrow, lamenting, “Kākutstha (Śrī Rāma), whose very nature is to eliminate all afflictions