Love poem Kurunthogai # 338

‘payaru’

Yield of grains   

She (heroine) is a girl of beauty with flesh-bed shoulder, tolerance off heart and chastity of virtue.

He (hero) is a Man of elegant. His chariot is returning home in the evening in a day at the end of winter season.

Male deer having branches of horns hugs its female stays in half-shadow place sleeps at bush and then moves in the evening eating ‘payaru’ yield of grains. That is the evening his chariot returns.

     

Words by        - her friend-maid

To whom         - heroine

Context           - hero’s van is returning home

          

Author of the poem is Perunkuntru;r Kil’a;r

2nd century B.C.

Refer the original poem in Tamil with annotation