(i) Estrangement on some slight pretext, followed by reconciliation, culminating in union between the lover and the beloved, are factors which commonly characterise connubial relationship. The swans, moving always together, do not, however, have to pass through these vicissitudes.
(ii) The Nāyakī’s request to the swans to worship the Lord on her behalf as well and
Subsequently, Parāṅguśa Nāyakī, in her profound state of separation, addresses another group of swans, dispatching them as messengers to the supreme Lord. She sends them towards Śrīman Nārāyaṇa, who is the very embodiment of complete enjoyability and lordship, residing in the divine abode of Thiruvaṇvaṇḍūr. The Nāyakī’s plea is filled with a unique urgency, for she astutely