Ainkurunooru 252 - Before the cold northern winds!

  

For the original Tamil poem and explanation, please click on this link, கூதிர்ப் பெருங்குளிர்க் காற்று வருமுன்

Tuft-headed Horses - Ainkurunooru 202

  

Will he come soon?

He who went in search of wealth

Taking my heart with him

Will he come

Before I wither away?

Won't you say good news, my friend?

Long live mother! Won't you listen! 

Like our town's parppana lads 

Have tufted heads, the chariot horses 

Of the Lord of the long mountains!

For the original Tamil poem and explanation, please click on this link, குடுமி கொண்ட குதிரைகள்.

Bard strumming the harp - Ainkurunooru 402

Pleasing it is, mother!

As the bard strumming the harp!

 Ainkurunooru 402

Mullai Thinai poem by Poet Peyanaar, depicting the words of foster mother to the heroine's mother.

What tree is it, my friend - Ainkurunooru 201

 

Image: Thanks to internet

Long live mother! Give ears! 

Golden buds bloom like gems

The leaves my lover donned

Also served me to dress

The tree growing in his slopes

What tree is it, my friend!

For the original Tamil poem and explanation, please click on this link, என்ன மரமது சொல்வாய்.

Hundreds of thousands of eons

 Ainkurunooru 281

படம்: நன்றி இணையம் 

Love is beautiful and generous, love loves all the causes of love, all that provides platform!

Blackgram spun with ghee

Ainkurunooru 211
neyyodu mayakkiya uzhunthu nootranna
vayalaiAm silambin thalaiyathu
seyalaiAm pakaiththazhai vaadum  annaai

Sung by Kapilar,  categorized in 'annaai paththu', a group of ten Kurinji thinai songs addressing the heroine affectionately as mother.  The song depicts the words spoken by the heroine's friend to the heroine. It was typical to call a friend affectionately as mother, as we do use the words dear, darling etc these days.



 
  

Sweeter than muddied water

Dear friend, believe me. Muddied water in leaf covered pits is sweeter than milk mixed with the sweetest honey.

Carp fish like eyes

You know my friend, I can forget him and go about my life, if only my eyes didn't become dull and dreary. But these eyes!!

Water lily's peeled bright stem

Water lily's stem when peeled of its fibrous outer layer shines bright. But what does it have to do with a woman? When flowers and fish and moon are metaphorical to women's beauty what does a stem, a peeled stem have to do with her appearance?  

Pollen shade in my eyes

My eyes are dull and lifeless because of him, and how do you expect me to let him come in?

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Feast her eyes

Oh, Mother! Will the diviner heal her sickness? Instead, make her stand on the boulder and look at his beautiful blooming hills. That will make her feel better making her jewels stay without loosening.

Image: thanks Google

Hidden not in rain clouds

How can I forget my beloved while his sapphire blue mountains are in constant view without being hidden by dark rain clouds?

Eyes like blue flowers

Oh mother! Her wide eyes fills with tears when her beloved's blue mountains drop out of sight. Such is her love and am glad you helped erase her sadness.

Scatters flowers

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Long live my friend! In the lakeside
Where tall marutham tree scatters flowers
Ladies compete to possess his broad chest
Wearing cool garlands, My beloved 
Bathed with them all, they say 

Wax ablaze

Ainkurunooru 32 sung by poet Orampokiyaar in marutham thinai. (click to read about it).
The poem depicts the words of the heroine to her friend while the messengers also were listening. They had come requesting permission for the hero to come to the heroine's house.

All in bloom, wedded life blossom

The town is all in blooms. Farmers reap the harvest. Its time for marriage, and I wish his wedded life flourish.

Sentinel of rainy hills

Ainkurunooru 206

Sung by poet Kapilar, depicted as the words spoken by the thozhi (heroine's friend) to the 
thalaivi (heroine). It is a Kurinji thinai (click to know more about this) song. 

Lasting bond

She desires not an acquaintance but an everlasting bond. Such is her love, so pure and true. Blue flowers might look like water lilies, but can't be the same.

So be gold

We wish the land to prosper and abound in wealth. And for the way you behave, we just wish you and your friend stay safe and sound. 

Rain clouds hover

Ainkurunooru 207, Sung by poet Kapilar
Kurinji thinai poem as spoken by the friend to the thalaivi (heroine).
"annAi vAzhi vEndu annai nandrum
unangala kollO ninthinaiyE uvakkAn
ninam podhi vazhukkin thOndrum
mazhaithalai vaiththa avarmani nedungkundrE"

To read the original poem and my explanation in Tamil, please click here.

Poem meaning: Long live my mother! Please Listen! Your millet fields will not dry up. Look at the rain clouds over his(thalaivan's) beautiful high hills, like fat covering fatty meat!

Description: The heroine usually meets the hero in secrecy while she goes to guard her millet crops.  This is the typical subject of the kurinji thinai poems. Now she is worried that the crops won't grow and the fields would go dry due to lack of rain. In that case she won't be able to meet her beloved. The heroine's friend(thozhi) points to the rain clouds hovering over the hero's mountains and consoles the heroine that it would rain and her millet field won't go dry. The friend just shows the rain clouds and says the millet field won't go dry. She implies that the heroine would be able to meet the hero. Her words give hope to the heroine. It was usual to call a friend as 'mother' out of affection.

Word meanings: annAi - mother, vAzhi - long live, vEndu - request, annai - mother, nandrum - it's good, unangala kollO - will not go barren/dry, nin thinayE - your millet field, uvakkAn - look there, ninam - fat, podhi - studded, vazhukkin - meat, thOndrum - appears, mazhai - mazhaithalai vaiththu - covered with rain clouds, avar maninedungkundrE - his beautiful high hills

My English Version:
"Long live mother! Please listen!
Your millet fields won't go barren;
Look there! Like fat covering fatty meat
Rain clouds hover his beautiful summit!"