Love poem Kurunthogai # 343

He is a Man of the hill-mount

There a strong tiger attacked a rut male elephant‘s face. The white tusk struck to become red. The tiger fell down wound. It was laying in a flower bet of a Ve;ngai tree withered by west-wind.

Dear friend! Please consider to elope with him.

   

Words by        - friend

To whom         - heroine

Context           - insisting the heroine elopement  

          

Author of the poem is Bu;thanDhe;van of I;l’am (Sri Lanka) country   

2nd century B.C.

Refer the original poem in Tamil with annotation