Love poem Kurunthogai # 334

Gull

Red-pecker family 

He is a Man of littoral land where even the gull bird having red pecker family hates the water slashes on its body while snow dropping winter season.

Friend! What we have with us except our life to leave him if he is away from us in such a period?    

Words by        - heroine

To whom         - her friend-maid

Context           - hero is away from heroine

          

Author of the poem is Il’ambo;ttanar

2nd century B.C.

Refer the original poem in Tamil with annotation