A Question about sundarar's verse (was thirumuRai series)

[Guest guest]

Dear Ravi,

 

Thank you so much for the explanation, it is somewhat clearer now.

 

One thing that is still not clear is the " annE " , I am not sure how it

fits in. Could you please clarify .. I went through the set

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2583/index.html

but my understanding of tamizh is close to zero (even modern usage,

so what to say of something like thirumuRai :-)

 

Thank you for taking the time/effort to help. Many thanks also to

Ganesh for posting this series so regularly, and without any break.

 

With namaskarams,

Sridhar.

 

, MSR <abhayambika wrote:

>

> This has to be understood in the context of sundrar's story.

When Sundarar was about to get married, Lord comes in the guise of an

old man and claims that sundarar is his slave and therefore he cannot

marry. Sundarar denies that and says he is not a slave of than man.

This dispute goes on and finally elders based on the evidence agree

with the old man.

[Guest guest]

sWseshagiri wrote:

> Dear Ravi,

>

> Thank you so much for the explanation, it is somewhat clearer now.

>

> One thing that is still not clear is the " annE " , I am not sure how it

> fits in. Could you please clarify .. I went through the set

> http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2583/index.html

> but my understanding of tamizh is close to zero (even modern usage,

> so what to say of something like thirumuRai :-)

>

>

annE is taken here as annaiyE - I think it is a poetic license to match

manne, ponne, minnar (first words in each line). annai mean mother.

Lord is both mother and father.