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Today
is street lamp lighting festival. I hope he will return home to join with our
celebration, the lady says to her friend-maid.
You,
my friend, my dreams in night are sweet. I read some omens in sane favorable.
The plows are idle after plowing season. There are no rain-falling-legs in sky.
The full-moon showing its shadow is shinning among Karthigai stars. The ladies
are lighting lamps in street. I expect he, my husband earning away in a distant
place will join with the celebration. The newly wedded girls appear drying
their hair after bath. Other ladies cook food for her in three-stone-oven. They
cook rice-cereals in milk. Some other ladies pound new paddy gathered from the
field for the purpose using wooden rod with their bangle-music. On hearing the
pounding sound the crane bird sitting on the plantain leaf will fly away to
rest on Mango-tree.
These
phenomena will occur in the village Idaiyaru in the region of King Karikalan
who saved his citizens without migration in difficulties.
He
went crossing Vebgadam hills (modern Tiruppatti) to earn for the family.
Flowers Vengai will blossom liking tiger in appearance. Monkeys will play on
these trees by which the flowers will drop down.
I
hope he will return home to join with us in the festival.
A
poem by: Nakkirar
The text is belongs to second century
B.C. or earlier.
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