Natrinai 66

KASU ornament 

The mother of an eloping lady is suffering in her pondering mood. While she is with me her eyes will shed tears in her mood of tenderness.  She will shed tears when her garland wilted, when the bangles in hand loosing from position and her ornament on her hip lose-falling from its grip. Such a kind of eyes of tenderness, she has.

Now she is eloping with her lover. But it is a forest in summer. The wind will flow dust. The dust may fall on her eyes. Then she will shed tears in her eyes. Alas! She may cry. This is mother’s anguish.   

The forest is so dry. The dove having eaten some Ukay-seeds of savory taste will suffer peaking its feather in neck sitting on a dry branch of a tree.   

     

Poet: IniChandaNaganar    

This is a poem of second century B.C.

Refer the original text and itsannotation in Tamil.