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Wednesday 3 September 2014

Love poem Kurunthogai # 333

A parrot 
on elephant’s back 
illusion 
Why can’t he get relief in our clandestine love for his burdening of toil-some work? 
He is the Man of the mountain where the elephant escaping from harvested land guarded by its owner with shooting arrow runs to the forest having a parrot on its back that was driven away by the ladies guarding a harvest.
Illusion

He can enjoy her as parrot. 

Words by        - friend-maid
To whom         - heroine
Context           - consoling her  
          
Author of the poem is Il’ambo;ttan son of Maruthankil’a;r of Madurai village
2nd century B.C.

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