(i) The elders point out that the Lord had just left on a hunting expedition with her consent and that the Nāyakī should not be so very impatient and that too, so soon. But then the Nāyakī’s consuming passion is such that she can’t brook separation from her Lord even for a short while. Her love is even more expansive than the ocean. That it is fast gathering momentum can
In this sixth pāsuraṁ of the chapter, the state of Parāṅkuśa Nāyakī, as delineated by the revered pūrvācāryas such as Nañjīyar, has escalated to a point of profound urgency. She declares to her companions and kinsfolk, "I am no longer in a stage where you can deliberate, enquiring amongst yourselves, 'Should we take her there or not?'; my devotional love (kādhal)