Love poem Kurunthogai # 329

Fruit flower Irumbai

Now it is called Illuppai 

It is easy to my eyes to bear and tear in the even in the midnight at the time when he left me alone here and went away through the forest where the elephant foot-steps were filled flowers of Irumbai blossom in summer and wither by blowing wind.

     

Words by    - heroine

To whom    - her friend-maid

Context       - when the hero is away earning.  

          

Author of the poem is O;thal;nthiya;r

2nd century B.C.

Refer the original poem in Tamil with annotation