Purananuru # 054

tiger-cave.

Poets like me can enter without barrio into the court of the king.

He appears before the needier to bestow as rain does. But avenging foes couldn’t enter his country as the cowherd fears to pass by the side of tiger-cave.

Poem by: Madalan Madurai Kumaranar of Erichalur in Konadu administrative country

Poem to: Kuttuvan Kodai, the Chera King.

Message: praising the victory   

Refer the original poem in Tamil with annotation