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| Owl |
The lady
reveals her friend-maid her feelings of disturbance in meeting her lover during
night time in clandestine love period.
There
is no festival in the village. Even though the peoples are busy without
sleeping. Suppose the peoples in bazaar sleeps, my mother guarding me in
house-prison and threatening me, has not slept. When she has slept, the
village-gourds are roaming. When the young men roaming with their spear has
slept, the dogs are barking. When the dogs stop their voice the moon shines as
day-light. When the moon sets behind the hill, the owl raises its voice to
catch the rat in dark when the apparition roams. While the owl stops its voice,
the cock crows, in early morning. Suppose, all the disturbances are over, he,
my lover will not come to meet me. Thus my clandestine love has many bars as
capital city Urandai (modern Thiruchirappalli) has forest-fort during the
ruling period of King ‘Tittan’. Tittan the King used to go mounting on galloping
horse carrying bow and arrows in his hand.
A
poem by: Paranar
The text is belongs to second century
B.C. or earlier.
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