The Elephant 5-kaimA

[Guest guest]

SrI:

 

Dear SrI Padmanabhan svami,

 

The Elephant series clearly brings the picture of the vEzham mentioned

in various pAsurams, which sometimes refer to SrI Rama and SrI KrishNA

too.

 

This particular term 'kaimA' is a special word in tamizh in that it

means only the elephant.

 

All the other terms referring to the Jumbo, have atleast two different meanings.

 

aDiyEn recalls a sanga-t-tamizh-p-pADal which has a talaivan telling

talaivi on the elephant he has got in dAnam.

 

As he tells that he has got a 'kari' or 'vEzham' or 'kaLiRu' or 'kambamA', she takes it differently.

 

But when he says 'kaimA' , she is awe-struck with wonder and knows what he has got in dAnam.

 

The poem ends like this:

 

...........kambamA enrEn naRkaLiyAm enrAL;

kaimmA enREn summA kalanginALE.'

 

After the 'ELEPHANT' series, please take up with the 'LOTUS' series.

 

dAsan

Mukundan

Padmanabhan

Thursday, September 01, 2005 11:58 PMramanuja; Oppiliappan;

vanamamalai; divyadesams The Elephant 5-kaimA

kaimA

 

kaimA representing a long hand also refers to an elephant has also

been used as noun and adjective by AzhwAr-s.

 

What does this hand possess -tusk alluding to wealth and this is what

ThriumangaiAzhwAr mentions in the mAmalla puram pAsuram.The tusks are

being carried sagging the vessels on the sea towards Thriukkadal

mallai. Similarly, the wealth of ThriunaRaiyUr is embedded with this

teeth of the jumbo.

 

'pulam koL nidhik kuvaiyOdu-puzhaik kaimA kaLiRRinamum' The Elpheants

with tusks; kaimA- adjective. Periya Thirumzohi 2-6-6;

 

'pushaik kaimA karik kODum' The tusks of elephants.kaimA-Adjective 6-9-6;

 

 

Here comes however the masterpiece. It is not that PeiryAzhwAt alone

has compared the walking elegance of the Lord with that of the

elephant. Here is the pAsuram from KulasEkarAzhwAr. Dasaratha

chakravarthy does not miss the Lord when he was in exile. He also

yearned for the walk of the Almighty. He longed for the style of the

stroll of Sri Chakravarthith Thirumagan

'kaimAvin nadai anna nadai azhagum ' The elephant like soft walk.

perumAL Thriumzohi 9-6; kaimA-noun.

Is it all on elephants ? more to follow.

 

dAsan

vanamamalai padmanabhan

[Guest guest]

Caan we give the Tamil script within brackets after the Roman Script

for the benefit of Tamil knowing readers? Pl try.

U r doing great Service. Pl bear with me if I am burdning you with

this request.Padmanabhan <aazhwar (AT) vsnl (DOT) com> wrote:

kaimA

 

kaimA representing a long hand also refers to an elephant has also

been used as noun and adjective by AzhwAr-s.

 

What does this hand possess -tusk alluding to wealth and this is what

ThriumangaiAzhwAr mentions in the mAmalla puram pAsuram.The tusks are

being carried sagging the vessels on the sea towards Thriukkadal

mallai. Similarly, the wealth of ThriunaRaiyUr is embedded with this

teeth of the jumbo.

 

'pulam koL nidhik kuvaiyOdu-puzhaik kaimA kaLiRRinamum' The Elpheants

with tusks; kaimA- adjective. Periya Thirumzohi 2-6-6;

 

'pushaik kaimA karik kODum' The tusks of elephants.kaimA-Adjective 6-9-6;

 

 

Here comes however the masterpiece. It is not that PeiryAzhwAt alone

has compared the walking elegance of the Lord with that of the

elephant. Here is the pAsuram from KulasEkarAzhwAr. Dasaratha

chakravarthy does not miss the Lord when he was in exile. He also

yearned for the walk of the Almighty. He longed for the style of the

stroll of Sri Chakravarthith Thirumagan

'kaimAvin nadai anna nadai azhagum ' The elephant like soft walk.

perumAL Thriumzohi 9-6; kaimA-noun.

Is it all on elephants ? more to follow.

 

dAsan

vanamamalai padmanabhan

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