Verse from abhirAmi antAdi

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Verse 72:

 

en kuRai(**) tIra nin(Ru) EttukinRen ini yAn piRakkin#

nin kuRaiyE anRi yAr kuRai kaaN iru nIL visumbin

min kuRaik kATTi melikinRa nEridAi melliyalAy

tan kuRai tIr e~Nkon chaTai mel vaitta tAmariyE

 

 

I adore and praise you to overcome my shortcomings (like falling prey

to kAma, krodhA, etc.), yet if I am born again, it is your fault and

not mine! O abhirAmi, whose slender waist excels in its grace over the

lighting in the long and wide sky, even my Lord (shiva) prostrates you

to be blessed by your lotus feet on his jaTa makuTam to overcome His

shortcomings.*

 

* Refer to verse 86 of saundaryalaharI. In tamil it is called uuDal,

to appease that anger of His spouse (due to a small quarrel), He

prostrates and HER lotus feet touches his head. This jaya gosham of

manmatha referred in this verse 86 is referred in many other texts.

The most poetic and brilliant one is in verse 87 of abhirAmi antAdi (I

will write about this later) where the poet says aNDamellam

pazhikkumbadi oru bhaagam koNdu aaLum paraaparaiyE (that is after He

burnt manmatha, before that defeat become certain, you took over His

left half and rule him for the whole universe to mock at Him. It mocks

at him saying, haha, see here the Lord burnt kAma, but only to give

one half of his body to his spouse and be under HER control)

 

** In this verse the poet blames ambaaL. The context of kuRai

(shortcoming, fault) occurs in few other places, and in another verse,

the poet turns around says that if I fall, it is indeed my fault and

not yours. In verse 39 he says, en kuRai nin kuRaiyE anRu, that is, it

my fault and not yours. Again in verse 71 he tell his mind that If you

whine I will not pity you, it is indeed your fault, sinc you have the

komaL shyAmaLa as your support (komaL yAmaLi kombirukka, izhavuRRu

ninRa nenje ini irangel unakku naan iniyE).

 

# The idea is, having surrendered to you and adoring you all the time,

if I take birth again, that is if I fall, it is your fault. It is a

kind of loving black-mail. O ambaa, if something wrong happens, it

your mistake and not mine, better do something so that it does not go

wrong :-)).

 

Ravi

 

he chandrachUda madanAntaka shUlapANe

sthANo girIsha girijesha mahesha shambo

bhuvanesha bhItabhayasUdana maamanAtham

saMsAra duHka gahanAjjagadIsha raxa