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Dear BhAgavatOttamas,

 

On this subject it is a pleasure to read the "vyAkhyAna

pankthis" of Sri PeriyavAchhAn PiLLAi.The general purport

is that, like battling fish in water, her eyes, which match each other

only,are never still.Their movement is either due to joy in

union or anxiety during separation;in fact they are undergoing

everything which their objective,the Lord, usually undergoes.

 

The SrIsUktis are -

 

(first from NAchhiyAr Tirumozhi- 5.5)

 

"ikkaNNukku ilakkAnavan paDumattai ttAn paDA-ninRALAyttu.

PorA-ninRuLLa kayal pOlEyAy onRukkonRu oppAna kaNgaLAnavai

uRangA"

 

(Again in Tiru NeDundAnDakam 17)

 

"Avanai pporugiRa [enticing] kaN ennudal; tannilE porugiRa [battling]

kaN ennudal.Kayal pOlE miLirA-ninRuLLa kaN.EppOdumokka alamAppE-yAyiRRu

ivaL kaNNukkuLLadu.SamSlEsha-daSaiyil harshattAle alamAkkum; viSlEsha-

daSaiyil SOkattAlE alamAkkum."

 

EmberumAnAr TiruvaDigaLE SaraNam!

 

adiyEn

Bharat

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kkrishnamachari (Kalyani Krishnamachari)

More feedback on NT 5.5 - poru kayal kaN

Wed, 6 Jan 1999 11:00:43 -0600

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namaskAram! Here is one more feedback on godai's poru kayal kaN

from SrI MG Srinivasan (formerly from Chicago, now in Srirangam).

adiyEn,

Kalyani Krishnamachari

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During a TiruppAvai upanyasam here in Srirangam temple a few days ago, the

Swami who gave it happened to explain 'poru kayal kaN iNai', the phrase you

have discussed in the Bhakti digest of today. Literally, poru = to do

battle with. It is the tradition for Indian poets to say women's eyes look

like fishes. Here 'poru kayal kaN iNai' means 'pair of eyes that compete

with fish'. This is just the straight meaning. For svApadesa arthAs, we

need to know the vyAkhyAnams.

MG Srinivasan

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