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.

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.

Sweeter than muddied water

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

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.

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. 

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!"