The heroine
explains her love relationship with her lover to her friend-maid.
There was heavy rain in midnight on
that day, over the mountain forest grown with Val”ai trees. Thunder sounds as
drum beaten by musicians of horn blower. It spoils the venom of the snake. In that
night he, my lover came to my house and hugged my breast again and again. After
love affairs our eyes became red. He spoke politely until the eyes return to
normal. There our friendship bloomed. At that time I could not learn the future
that occurs at present; that makes my bangles slip from my shoulder; my mind
suffers pondering his relation. If I would have learned at that time I would
not leave him at all to go on earning in a distant place. He is a man of
mountain slope where the male-elephant pats its female delivered a baby-calf.
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| male, female and calf elephants |
A poem by: Ilandevanar, a general
merchant in Madurai
The text is belongs to second century
B.C. or earlier.
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