SrI:
SrI ANDAL samEta SrI rangamannAr tiruvadigaLE SaraNam
NACCIYAR
TIRUMOZHI
kAmanai vENDudal -- Praying to the god of Love
Verse 2: veLLai nuN maNARkoNdu
A. The translation from SrImAn SaDagopan's tamizh treatise.
ANDAL proceeds next to describe the vratam She plans to undertake in the worship of kAmadEvan:
veLLai nuN maNaR koNDu teru aNindu
veL varaippadan munnam tuRai paDindu
muLLum illA cuLLi erimaDuttu
muyanRu unnai nORkinREn kAmadEvA!
kaLLavizh poonkaNai toDuttuk koNDu
kaDal vaNNan enbadOr pEr ezhudi
puLLinai vAi piLandAn enbadOr
ilakkinil puga ennai eykiRRiyE
kAmadEva! I will spread pure, white hued silt from the river bed and decorate the path that you are going to walk on and wait for your arrival. I will bathe in the river before sunrise, gather samit (wooden sticks) that are devoid of thorns and ants, go home and offer them to agni (fire) with proper mantra-s to propitiate you. In return, you get ready with your flower arrows and sugarcane bow, write the auspicious name of kaDal vaNNan (neela mEgha SyAmaLa varNan, kaNNan) in the arrow to indicate that I am desirous of union with Him, and aim me at Him so that I reach the target.
Here, gOdai indirectly says, if you direct me to that target, kaNNan, who burst open bakAsuran's (crane's) mouth, will be very pleased with you.
B. Some additional thoughts
SrI periyavAccAn piLLai gives an alternate explanation as well for "kaDal vaNNan enbadOr pEr ezhudi" - ANDAL is asking kAmadEvan to write in his heart (i.e., make a determination in his mind) that She is to be united with Him.
"veL varaippadan munnam tuRai paDindu" reminds us of phrases from tiruppAvai - "keezhvAnam veLLenRu" , "nAtkAlE neerADi" and "kuLLak kuLirak kuDaindu neerADi".
Why did ANDAL choose to offer samit in the fire? SrI periyavAccAn piLLai suggests that this is because ANDAL is used to helping her father by fetching him the samit for his agnihotra homa.
sarvam SrIman nArAyaNAyEti samarpayAmi.
adiyen,
Kalyani Krishnamachari
kkrishnamachari@lucent.com
Mani Varadarajan Last modified: Wed Sep 16 14:04:58 PDT