The men of the mountain wear chapels
in their legs. The girls play swing while they are guarding millet field. The swing
will suspend from the branch of Vengai tree near rocks. It appears like a
peacock. He, the lover of the lady is the Man of such mountain.
The lady says; he played swimming with
me in the mountain pond among the remote forest which even monkeys did not
reach there. It happened so many days ago. From some days onward the peoples of
my village are murmuring about my relation with him. Peoples of Kongu country
will celebrate a festival called ‘Ulli’. In this festival they will dance tying
bells on their waist. While they dance the bells will ring. As the bells ring
during the dance the mouths of the peoples are speaking on our love relation. Why
they are doing so, the lady asks her friend-maid.
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| girl swings |
A poem by: Marutan IlanKiranar of
Madurai village
The text is belongs to second century
B.C. or earlier.
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