nAcciyAr tirumozhi - kAmanai vENDudal 8

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SrI:

SrI ANDAL samEta SrI rangamannAr tiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

 

nAcciyAr tirumozhi - I - kAmanai vENDudal.

pASuram 8 - mASuDai uDambODu.

 

A. Translation from SrImAn SaDagopan's tamizh treatise.

 

After asking for karum kaNNan's embrace, ANDAL proceeds to ask her next

boon:

 

mASuDai uDamboDu talai ulaRi

vAippuRam veLuttoru pOdumuNDu

teSuDait tiRaluDaik-kAmadEvA!

nORkinRa nOnbinaiK kuRik kOL kaNDAi

peSuvadu onRu uNDu i~ngu emperumAn

peNmaiyait talaiyuDaittu Akkum vaNNam

kESava nambiyaik kAl piDippAL

ennum ippeRu enakku aRuL kaNDAi

 

ANDAL wants to praise and please manmathan by calling him: "teSuDait

tiRaluDaik kAmadEvA". "You have the power to bring together males and

females with the help of your flower arrows under the guise of manmatha

prastAram. You also have the expertise to destroy all obstacles that

may arise in the path of their uniting together. Oh, kAmadEvA! Please

do not forget the pitiful plight I am in while I am observing this vratam to

attain the karungaDal vaNNan kaNNapirAn - I appear with body smeared with

dirt, unoiled, uncombed and undecorated hair, pale lips due to avoidance of

tAmbUlam, and a thin body because of eating only once a day. I am thus a

pitifully lean person because of the severity of my vratam, and do not

decorate myself like normal women do. There is one and only one boon

you can bestow upon me. Having been born a woman, I need your blessing

to become the most blessed of women on this earth by having the bhAgyam

to do pAda sevA for keSava".

 

sarvam SrIman nArAyaNAyEti samarpayAmi.

 

adiyEn,

Kalyani Krishnamachari

(kkrishnamachari)