A Hundred Measures of Time by Nammalwar

Author:Nammalwar
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789351187141
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2013-03-04T05:00:00+00:00

Piḷḷai begins by suggesting that the above verse may be spoken by either the heroine or her friend, reading the verse’s opening phrase, eṅkōl vaḷai, as ‘my beautiful bangles’ (heroine) or as an epithet, ‘she who wears beautiful bangles’ (heroine’s friend). In the commentary for this same verse, attentive to its grammar, Piḷḷai also suggests that it can be read either by taking Kaṇṇan or tulāy (tulasī) as the subject. In the former case, the entire verse is read as a single sentence, while in the second case the āl in the second line (viḷaivikkumāl) is taken as an exclamation of surprise. In this interpretation, the verse splits into two parts.113 For simplicity and to convey how differently the verse reads in the alternative proposition, I have removed all the epithets and reduced the two parts of this latter reading to two straightforward prose sentences:

Kaṇṇan’s sceptre, which rules earth and sky, bent because

of my bangles.

What won’t the tulasī of my lord do now?

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