puzhudhi aLain^dha pon mEni...

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Dear Sri Madhavakannan,

Your mail on the sweetness of the name 'kaNNan' was excellent. I

thoroughly enjoyed it.

Especially the following lines were very moving:

 

"kaNNA-kaNNA";-calls yasOdhA. How much you must have enjoyed calling this

chubby boy of 2 year old dark, beauty running with a golusu in his ankles;

adorned with a peacock feather on his head, in the midst of curly, curly

hair laden with dust (due to playing on the streets throughout the day)

and ..."

 

On reading this I immediately thought of the neerAttam pAsuram which describes

kaNNan's thirumEni, (puzhudhi aLaindha pon mEni!). Thought of sharing this

with everybody...

 

 

160:

pooNiththozhuvinilpukkup puzhudhiyaLaindhaponmEni

kaaNapperidhum_ukappan aakilumkaNdaar_pazhippar

naaNeththanaiyumilaadhaay! nappinnaikaaNilsirikkum

maaNikkamE! enmaNiyE! manchanamaadan^eevaaraay. 9.

 

yasOdha calls kaNNan to take bath through these 10 pAsurams. she says,

"I would very much like to see your beautiful body covered with dust

from playing in the cow shed. But don't you realise that others would

curse me for raising you this way? Don't you atleast realise that your

friend n^appinnai would laugh at you? Oh! my dearest kaNNA, come over

to take bath..."

 

Isn't this sweet? yasOdhA tries different explanations to get kutti kaNNan

in. she finally realizes that any kid would feel ashamed if his girl friend

laughs at him. And the kid would immediately get inside to get dressed up

properly. This technique worked! This happens to be the last attempt by

yasOdha (9th pAsuram. 10th is the palasruthi.)

 

Thanks for giving us an opportunity to think and visualize the beautiful

kaNNan.

 

adiyEn rAmAnuja dhAsan

Vijay Triplicane

(Viji)