Guest guest Posted April 23, 1997 Report Share Posted April 23, 1997 kaRpaar iraama piraanai allaal maRRum kaRparO? puRpaa muthalaap pulleRum paathi onRu inRiyE, naRpaal ayOththiyil vaazum charaacharam muRRavum, naRpaaluk uyththanan naanmukaNnaar peRRa naattuLE. thiruvaaymozhi 7.5.1 (by Nammalvar) Why would anyone want to learn anything but Rama? Beginning with the low grass and the creeping ant with nothing whatever, he took everything in the good city Ayodhya everything moving, everything still, he took everything everything born of the lord of four faces, he took them all to the very best of states [translated by A.K. Ramanujan] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 26, 1997 Report Share Posted April 26, 1997 At 03:06 PM 4/23/97 -0700, Sri.Mani Varadarajan wrote: > >kaRpaar iraama piraanai allaal maRRum kaRparO? >puRpaa muthalaap pulleRum paathi onRu inRiyE, >naRpaal ayOththiyil vaazum charaacharam muRRavum, >naRpaaluk uyththanan naanmukaNnaar peRRa naattuLE. > > thiruvaaymozhi 7.5.1 > (by Nammalvar) > >Why would anyone want > to learn anything but Rama? > >Beginning with the low grass > and the creeping ant >with nothing > whatever, > >he took everything in the good city Ayodhya > everything moving, > everything still, > >he took everything > everything born >of the lord > of four faces, > >he took them all > to the very best of states > > > [translated by A.K. Ramanujan] -- What a lovely verse, indeed !! It reminded me immediately of Saint Tondar-adi-pOdi's similar-sounding verse from pasUram #7 from the "tirUmAlai" : pulaiyaram-Aki ninra puttodu samanam ellAm kalaiyarak kaRRa mAndar kAnbarO ? kEtparO tAm ? talaiyarUp pUndUm sAkEn sattiyam kAnmin aiyA ! silaiyinAl ilangai seRRa dEvanE dEvan AvAn ! (my free non-literal translation): Hark! this is the Truth That saivaite, jain and buddhist Mired in untruth knows not; Hark Sire! He's One Truth To swear by! Yea, I offer thee my head for it: The One who quelled Lanka, behold ! is the ONE I know is TRUTH -- need I another ?! adiyEn, sudarshan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 26, 1997 Report Share Posted April 26, 1997 Further to the "tondar-adi-podi" parallel to the following that Sri.Mani posted: >> >>kaRpaar iraama piraanai allaal maRRum kaRparO? >>puRpaa muthalaap pulleRum paathi onRu inRiyE, >>naRpaal ayOththiyil vaazum charaacharam muRRavum, >>naRpaaluk uyththanan naanmukaNnaar peRRa naattuLE. >>>> thiruvaaymozhi 7.5.1 >> (by Nammalvar) >> The same stirring sentiment of Nammalwar and Tondar-adi-podi is also expressed almost verbatim by Swami Desikan in the Raghuveera-gadyam # 91 in a very pithy way : "sAkEtha janapada jani Dhanika jhangama thadhi-thara janthu jAtha divya gathi dAna darshitha nitya nissIma vaibhava !" You could say the above line could be translated non-literally using almost exactly A.K.Ramanujan's lines : Beginning with the low grass >> and the creeping ant >>with nothing >> whatever, >>he took everything in the good city Ayodhya >> everything moving, >> everything still, >>he took everything >> everything born >>of the lord >> of four faces, >>he took them all >> to the very best of states" How wonderful indeed are these poetic points & counter-points !! adiyEn, sudarshan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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