Love poem Kurunthogai # 375

Musical instrument 

small ‘thondagam’. 

Classical name 

‘thudi’. 

Modern name 

‘udukku’

I think, it is better that he should not come to meet you tonight. Because, the musical sound raised by beating ‘thondagam’ drum is always hearing even in midnight as the sound hearing in the field during cutting the yellow-millet ‘thinai’ in night time.

Words by        - friend-maid

To whom         - heroine

Context           - waiting hero is in a hearing distance (come neither night nor day time. Marry her)

Love 1 of 5     - union

          

Author of the poem is unknown

2nd century B.C.

Refer the original poem in Tamil with annotation