Agananuru 94

He, the hero, returning home after his duty is over, describes his chariot-driver about his lover’s dwelling place.

Fox eating sheep 

There is a hill-top with honey-hive. The slop-land is the valley full of flowers ‘Musundai’. It is mid-night. The shepherd is guarding the calves of the sheep from fox stealing. He has fire-wood in his hand to drive away the sheep-stealing foxes. The foxes are raising sound to gather their family attack in crew. The shepherd is wearing a kind of flower garland made of two kinds of flowers, Mullai and Tontri. Honey-beetles are rounding the flowers in his head.

Wild-pigs are coming to feed the grains in the harvest. The peasants guarding are blowing horns to drive away the pigs. There are mixing sounds alarming; the voice of foxes and blowing sound of horn. She, my lover is dwelling amides of such a kind of nature. Let us reach there as early as possible.

A poem by: NanPallur SiruMedaviyar

The text is belongs to second century B.C. or earlier.

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