(i) The Lord stays in Tirumūḻikkaḷam, attended upon by a large number of devotees and it is but natural that the Nāyakī also longs to be in such good company. Her emissaries, the birds, are also merry, enjoying connubial bliss, and moving about in their flocks and it is only appropriate that the Nāyakī invokes their aid to cure her of her solitude and restore her to the
In this second pāśuram of the chapter, our Āzhvār, in the state of Parāṅkuśa Nāyakī, consumed by the sorrow of separation, turns to a flock of herons to serve as her messengers. She beseeches them, "Go and ask the emperumān of glorious tirumūzhikkaḷam, 'Have I utterly lost the sacred opportunity to enjoy Your divine presence there, in the blessed company of Your