Purananooru - 136 to 150 (English Translation)

136. A Song About Vel Aai Andiran

Shall I say the lice in my head as my enemies ? Shall I say the poverty which tortures me and my relatives as my enemy ? Shall I say the dwarfs who seize our things like the monkeys in the hilly way as my enemies ? We have come through this hard forest way thinking that you will know all our enemies and give us gifts. Those who help the poor are the real helpers. Those who help the rich are helping themselves. So you send us giving gifts. We will praise you to live more than the sand on the bank of Thuraiyoor . We will live with the wealth given by you. -Thuraiyoor Odaikkizhaar

137. A Song About Naanjil Valluvan

I am the one who have not the desire to praise the three kings who have young elephants and the world which has the sea as the boundary. I am the one who know you very earlier. The seed which is sowed in a pit which is full of water will not go waste without growing because of the scarcity of water. It will grow like the sugarcane. Though the rain fails in the summer, the water in the ponds never goes dry. The river water which looks like clear gems will carry vengai flowers and run towards the sea. Oh lord of this fertile Naanjil hill ! You live long. Let your father and mother also live long. -Orusirai Periyanaar

138. A Song About Naanjil Valluvan

Oh old Paanaa ! You have come through the forest way where there are cow herds, the hilly way where there are flock of deers and the river way where there are a lot of fish. You have come with a small yaazh , wearing rags. You have come with a desire to get gifts. You have a high thought. The lord whom you wish to sing never says, “I have nothing today. So you go and come tomorrow.“ He is the husband of the beautiful lady who has dense, dark hair. He is like the ear kept by the parrot in a tree hole. When you return after getting the gifts from him , none can recognize you that you were that old Paanaa in rags. Your appearance will be totally changed then. -Marudhan Ilanaahanaar

139. A Song About Naanjil Valluvan

The youths having small tied up hair and the Viraliyar who have creeper like waist are waiting for a long time to get your gift. I won't lie to get gifts from you for their living. I am telling the truth . You are the successor of a dynasty which never retraces in a war. Oh lord of the Naanjil hill ! My poverty does not allow me wait until you give gifts to me. Your Seraa king is ready to give whatever you need. You are ready to give your life itself to the Seraa king . If a war comes suddenly and if you go to the war, myself and my relatives cannot wait for the gift which will be given by you after the war. So before the war, you give up the gifts and remove our hunger. -Marudhan Ilanaahanaar

140. A song About Naanjil Valluvan

The Naanjil hill is very high. There are many jack trees. Oh poets having tongues which sing great Thamizh songs ! It seems that Naanjil Valluvan is a fool who cannot know the truth. He gives an elephant which looks like a hill as a gift to those who come to get some rice to cook. What an ignorance ! It seems that there will be such gifts in this world. Will not the bgreat people do their duties knowing the right way ? -Awvaiyaar

141. A Song About Vaiyaavikko Behan

We who look like the Paanaas have worn golden lotuses on our heads. Our Viraliyar have worn golden jewels. We have untied the horses from the chariot and are in the forest area happily as we are in our home. Oh poets ! Do you want to ask who are we ? We are also like you. We with our relatives suffered a lot than you before seeing Behan. Now our condition has changed because of the gifts given by Behan. Though he knew that the peacock did not cover its body with a shawl, he gave his shawl to it. He will give in large quantities to many. He does not give expecting fame and benefits in the next birth. He gives knowing the poverty of the people. So you go and get gifts. -Paranar

142. A song About Vaiyaavikko Behan

The rain will fall in the pond where there is no water and in the vast fields. It will fall on the barren land too. Like the rain Behan who has elephant army and has worn kazhals gives to all without knowing their standard. But when he fights, he will fight with those who are equal to him in strength. -Paranar

143. A Song About Vaiyaavikko Behan

The Kuravaas will request the rainy cloud to rain and if it rains a lot they will request it to stop.. They worship god giving offerings. When the rain stops they eat the thinai. Oh lord of that land having strong horse army ! Yesterday when we were coming across the forest way where the water falls sounded like murasu, we saw a small village . There we sang about you and your hill. On hearing that there came a lady who could not control her weeping. Her tears wet her chest. Her crying voice resembles the sound of the flute. We don't know who she is. She is more pitiable than us. -Kapilar

144. A Song about Vaiyaavikko Behan

Oh Behan ! Not showing mercy is cruel. In the evening when darkness surrounded, we played our yaazh and sang about you, your forest and your hill. Then we saw a lady who had ink smeared, neidhal flowers like eyes. Tears were rolling down from her eyes wet her chest. We asked that lady if she was a relative to our Behan. She wiped out her tears with her kaandhal flower like fingers and told that she was not a relative to Behan. She added that others told that he had fallen in love with a lady like her and came to Nalloor which had the mullai land as a fence. -Paranar

145. A Song About Vaiyaavikko Behan

Oh Behaa ! You gave your shawl to the peacock thinking that it would tremble in the cold. You have good fame, male elephants and horses. We do not come with hunger. We do not have the duty of saving our relatives. We play the yaazh so that the hearers appreciate it moving their heads. We request you to show mercy . You get on your chariots on which bells are tied, go to your wife and remove her deep sorrow. It is the gift begged by us. -Paranar

146. A Song About Vaiyaavikko Behan

Let the gold and wealth given by you be with you. Oh Behan ! I do not come to get these. If you wish to give me any gift on hearing my song about your hill , you show mercy to your wife. She is in a deep sorrow as you do not show her kindness. Her hair is like the feathers of the peacock. In order to make it dry up by sweet smelling smoke and to wear cold, sweet smelling garland you tie up your horse to the chariot and go to your wife. -Arisil Kizhaar

147. A Song About Vaiyaavikko Behan

Oh Behan ! We crossed the hilly way playing our yaazh and came here. Your wife is alone hearing the sound of the rain. She has not applied oil to her hair. Her cold eyes are with tears. To make her hair clean and wear new flowers you go to her place. This is the best gift that can be given by you. -Perungkundroor Kizhaar

148. A Song About Kandeeraakkopperu Nalli

Oh king having fertility given by the water falls ! Oh Nalli ! The gold, wealth and the elephants in your country are for giving to those who come to get them. So our little tongues do not have the habit of singing about those who do not give. -Vanparanar

149. A Song About Kandeeraakkopperu Nalli

Oh Nalli ! You live long. Because of your patronage, our Paanaas sing marudham in the evening which is to be sung in the morning and sevvazhi in the morning which is to be sung in the evening. -Vanparanar

150. A Song About Kandeeraakkopperu Nalli

I was with a rag, which looked like the white eagle's wing, under a jack tree. I was suffering like this. I stood and began to worship . When a hunter came, he made me sit. He cooked the flesh of the deer in the fire and gave it to us to eat. We ate it and drank the water of the water falls and quenched our hunger. When we were to depart, that hunter gave his pearl garland and bracelet saying that he had no other good jewels as he was a dweller of the forest. Even when I asked his name and village, he refused to say them. On hearing others' talk, we came to know that he was Kandeeraakkopperu Nalli who had the big hill in the Thotti range and marble like water falls. -Vanparanar

Purananooru - 121 to 135 (English Translation)

121. A Song About Malaiyamaan Thirumudikkaari

Trusting one who gives all, many will come from all the four directions. To give them is easy. But giving according to their standard is very hard. So , oh king having the fame of giving ! Avoid thinking all alike if you wish to give according to their standard. -Kapilar

122. A Song About Malaiyamaan Thirumudikkaari

Oh Kaari wearing brave kazhals ! Your country cannot be destroyed by the sea. It cannot be captured by your enemies. It is the possession of the Andhanaas who light the velvi fire. The tributes which were given by the three kings are used for giving those who sing about you. It is your aim to give all except your wife who has chastity like Arundhadhi, sweet words and soft shoulders. Oh what a greatness you have! -Kapillar

123. A song About Malaiyamaan Thirumudikkaari

It is easy for any one to give chariots as gifts to others when sitting happily in the court yard with drunkenness. But Thirumudikkaari , who has imperishable fame will give decorated chariots to other even if he is not in a drunkenness state. The chariots given by him are more than the rain drops which rain on the Mulloor hill. -Kapilar

124. A Song About Malaiyamaan Thirumudikkaari

Though the day is not good, though the birds show bad omen,though you go in a time which is not suitable, though you praise him with meaningless words, Thirumudikkaari who belongs to Mulloor hill where the water falls are sounding continuously will give to those who sing abot him. They won't return with empty hands. -Kapilar

125. A Song About Malaiyamaan Thirumudikkaari

Oh lord ! We drink toddy and eat flesh which has the softness of cotton and the colour of the fire. You have destroyed the strength of the enemies. Like the bull which got tiredness on ploughing eats the straw, the arrack that you drink after giving to others help you like the amudham.The warriors who conquered the elephants which are like the moving mountains will praise you for the victory. The defeated will say if it is not Thirumudikkaari who opposed us, we should have won easily. You are the one who has greatness of being praised by your friends and enemies like god Murugan. -Vadama Vannakkan Perunjchaaththanaar

126. A Song About Malaiyamaan Thirumudikkaari

Oh king you are the successor of a great family. You melt the ornaments on the foreheads of the enemies' elephants, make them as golden lotus and adorn the Paanaas' heads who come singing about you. We are not able to sing your fame. Oh king of the Mulloor hill ! You have dark forests which look like the sleeping night and singing water falls. We have come to sing about you. Let your family and dynasty get greatness. Kapilar who has sung your fame so much so that there is nothing to sing about you. Can we sing new about you ? When Seran's vessel sails on the western sea, can the vessels of others go there ? Like that after kapilar's song we cannot sing. We have come to sing about you in order to drive away our poverty. Oh king ! You are the lord of the country which is on the bank of the Pennai river. You are killing the enemies' elephant army with your elephant army which goes with the sound of the murasu which sounds like thunder which frightens the cobras. You give us gifts hearing our songs too. -Maarokkaththu Nappasalaiyaar

127. A Song About Vel Aai Andiran

Oh king ! As you have given all the elephants to the Paanaas who came with yaazh singing sweet songs, the elephant shed is empty and now there are peacocks. Your palace is now without beauty as it has no jewels to give to the singers except the mangala thread of your wife. The palaces ,where the kings eat tasty food without giving it to others, are not equal to aai's palace. -Uraiyoor Eanichcheri Mudamosiyaar

128. A Song About Vel Aai andiran

There is a jack tree in the centre of the town. There was a monkey on a big branch of it. It tapped the muzhavu of the Paanaas which was hung on the tree thinking it as a jack fruit. When it tapped the muzhavu ,it sounded. On hearing the sound, the annams flew away with fear. Aai's hill has such a fertility. The Virali who has worn bangles can reach the Podhihai hill which has a lot of rain. But the enemies cannot reach it at any cost. -Uraiyoor Eanichcheri Mudamosiyaar

129. A Song About Ve Aai Andiran

The Kuravaas who live in the caves drink the honey stored in the bamboo tubes and dance kuravai dance under the shadow of the vengai tree. Aai who belongs to this hill which has vengai trees and jack trees , is strong in war. He has the desire to give to those who come singing about him. The elephants that were given to the Paanaas do not equal to the stars which are in the sky which has no black clouds. They are more in number than the stars. -Uraiyoor Eanichcheri Mudamosiyaar

130. A Song About Vel Aai Andiran

Oh Aai wearing shining ornaments ! Do the female elephants in your country give birth to ten calves in one delivery ? You gave elephants to those who came singing about you and your hill with smiling face. Oh Aai ! If we count the number of elephants given by you , they will be more than the number of vels left by the Kongers when you drove them in the western seashore. -Uraiyoor Eanichcheri Mudamosiyaar

131.A Song About vel Aai Andiran

Will these forests have praised the hill of Aai on which the rainy clouds settle ? Aai has worn the kanni made up of vazhai flowers and has a brave sword. Will the fertile forest which has plenty of fruits and vegetables have got these elephants as gifts for singing about him ? -Uraiyoor Eanichcheri Mudamosiyaar

132. A Song About Vel Aai Andiran

I should have think about you first when I wish to get gifts. But I remember you later and come to you. Let my heart which forgot to think about you first perish. Let my tongue which did not sing about you crack. Let my ears shut like the well in the ruined village. The Himalayas, where the kavari eats narandham grass , drinks water from the pond where there are kuvalai flowers and will be under the shadow of the thahara tree with its mate happily, is in the north. Aay's dynasty is in the south. If these two are not present the world should have gone upside down. -Uraiyoor Eanichcheri Mudamosiyaar

133. A Song About Vel Aai Andiran

Oh lady with soft nature ! You should have heard the good qualities of Aai but you should not have seen him. If you wish to see him go with your sweet smelling hair which moves in the wind , like the dancing peacock. If you go like that you can see Aai who will give you like the rainy cloud. So you go to see him. -Uraiyoor Eanychcheri Mudamosiyaar

134. A Song About Vel Aai Andiran

Aai is not a business man who thinks that if we do good deeds in this birth, it will help in the next birth. He patronized because it was the living way of the scholars and great people. -Uraiyoor Eanichcheri Mudamosiyaar

135. A song About Vel Aai Andiran

It is a high hill where tigers live. In the hilly way which cannot be climbed up easily, I came with a small yaazh, followed by the slow walking Paadini , Thinking about your fame. Oh Aai ! You will give elephants with their calves to those who come to your country. I don't want elephants. I don't want chariots. You consider those who come to get gifts as your relatives, even if they possess your wealth. Let your living days increase like your broad mind. I have come here to see you. Oh king ! You have conquered the enemies. You have a hill which is praised by many. Seeing you itself is a gift to me. -Uraiyoor Eanichcheri Mudamosiyaar

Purananooru - 111 to 120 (English Translation)

111. A Song About Vel Paari

This big, black Parambu of Paari is pitiable. It cannot be conquered by those who fought with vel. But for the Virali who has kuvalai flowers like eyes, it is easy to get Parambu as she comes singing to get a gift. -Kapilar

112. A Song About Vel Paari

On that day when the three kings were surrounded Parambu, we were with our father in the light of the full moon happily. This Parambu was also ours. But today in the light of the white moon, we are suffering without our father as the enemies have captured our hill. -Paari's daughters

113. A Song About Vel Paari

Oh Parambu ! Once you were fertile, giving arrack, food with goat's flesh and gifts. But now, as Paari has died , his daughters who have worn bangles on their arms are going with tears in search of husbands, who rub their fragrant hair. We are leaving you. Let your praise be long live. -Kapilar

114. A Song About Vel Paari

Parambu is visible to those who stand here . It will be visible to those who stand in a little far off distance. Paari's Parambu hill has a front yard where the honey from the honey comb which is crushed like the food by the elephant runs and has places where the chariots will stand. -Kapilar

115. A Song About Vel Paari

The water falls will be flowing in one side.The honey drops which were scattered when poured into the eating vessels of the Paanaas will flow and roll down small stones. It is the hill of Paari who is the enemy of the kings who have vels and elephant army. But today it has lost all its greatness. -Kapilar

116. A Song About Vel Paari

The daughters of Paari are wearing the dresses made up of kuvalai flowers on their waist. They have very beautiful cold eyes and smile. They are in the front yard of their small house where the grass is spread. There is a fence made up of thorns. On the garbage heap, the ribbed gourd and bottle gourds are spread. The daughters of Paari stand on the garbage heap and count the salt loaded carts of the salt merchants. But once they were in the parks where the peacocks were dancing. There the fruits were spread everywhere by the monkeys while they sprang. Not only in the season, there were fruits ever. The hill had new yield. The daughters of Paari were standing on the hill and counting the horses of the enemies who did not know the fame and strength of Paari. But today , they are standing on the garbage heap and counting the salt loaded carts. On seeing this my mind suffers. Eventhough seeing this cruelty, I am living. Let my living days perish. -Kapilar

117. A Snog About Vel Paari

Though the black Saturn appears with smoke, darkness spreads in all directions, Venus moves towards south, the fields are yielding rich, flowers blossom on the bushes, the mother cows craze the grass stomachful as there is righteous rule. There are so many scholars, the rain never fails, the buds of mullai are like the teeth of the young cat. The father of these girls who have worn beautiful bangles is Paari. This Parambunaadu belongs to Paari. But now it has lost all its fertility and has become a barren land. -Kapilar

118. A Song About Vel Paari

The pond which has rocks and hills on both sides and has a bank which looks like the eighth day crescent moon has become ruined as there is none to care for it. Alas ! Like that pond, the beautiful Parambunaadu has perished after the death of Paari who had sharp vel and broad shoulders and who gave chariot to the mullai creeper. -Kapilar

119. A Song About Vel Paari

It is a rainy season morning. It has just rained. The flowers of theruzh blossom like the dots on the black face of the elephant. The tamarind sauce is prepared with termites and butter milk. It has the new income of the thinai. Parambu was like a shadow giving tree in a way there is no shadow. Paari gave gifts to those who came saying that they had nothing. He gave more than other kings. Alas !! His Parambu has ruined now. -Kapilar

120. A Song about Vel Paari

It is a red soil land where there are a lot of vengai trees. The rain has stopped. The wet land is ploughed and seeds are sowed. The weeds are removed. The ears of varahu and thinai plants are harvested. The seeds of sesame and beans are plucked. The arrack that was kept under the earth is served to the people who are in the grass thatched huts. The wives serve the peanut roasted with ghee and cooked rice in big plates. The Parambu hill is very fertile. The daughters of Paari hear the sound of the chappals of the enemies who run back. Paari does not like to follow them driving. He has boundless fame. In Parambu hill, the bamboo trees are waving in the wind. As Paari is not alive now, his country has lost its fertility and has become ruined. -Kapilar

Purananooru - 101 to 110 (English Translation)

101. A Song About Adhiyamaan Nedumaan Anji

We did not go for a single day. We did not go for two days. We went several days with several people. But he received us with the same desire which was on the first day. He has elephants with golden ornaments on their foreheads and beautiful chariots. Though he delays to give gifts or not, like the food that is kept in between the tusks of the elephant, it is sure that we can get it. Oh heart ! Don't worry. Let his feet long live. -Awvaiyaar

102. A Song About Pohutezhini

The bulls are young. They are capable of drawing the cart without knowing that the wood lock is attached to their necks. The cart is overloaded . The salt sellers afraid what will happen to the cart when its wheels go down to the pit or go up the bump. They attach a safety axle to support the main axle. Pohutezhini is like that safety axle. He has great fame and hands which give gifts to others. He is like the shining full moon. There is no sorrow for those who live under his white umbrella. -Awvaiyaar

103. A SongAbout Adhiyamaan Nedumaan anji

Oh Virali ! You are bearing a kaavadi. At one end of the kaavadi, there is a padhalai and at the other end there is a muzha. You are walking with a thought , “who will fill up my vessel ? “ You go to Adhiyamaan. His palace is not so far. The smoke which arose when the fire was lighted to destroy the enemies cover the young elephants like the clouds that cover the hills. He who has a vel is in the nearby enemy country. He will fill up your eating vessels with sweet fleshy food , so that it never goes empty. Though the world suffers with poverty, he will not fail to give you. Let his golden kazhals live who will give to the beggars. -Awvaiyaar

104. A Song About Adhiyamaan Nedumaan Anji

Oh enemy warriors ! I am telling you this. Save yourself. Though the water source is so small so that small children stir the water with their ankles, the crocodiles in that water source will be strong enough to kill the strong elephants. Our lord Nedumaan Anji is also having such strength. Not knowing his brave deeds, if you wish to have his enmity thinking that he is young, you cannot succeed. -Awvaiyaar

105. A Song About Vel Paari

Oh Virali having beautiful forehead ! You will get valuable ornaments. The honey drops which come from the blue flowers in the big pond run through the ploughed land though the rain falls or not. The water falls from the hill with bamboos run as rivers. You sing the praise of the patron Paari. His sweetness is greater than these. -Kapilar

106. A Song about Vel Paari

If one gives erukkam flowers because he has only that no god will refuse to accept it. Though they are foolish and have mean qualities, patron Paari will give them with pleasure. -Kapilar

107. A Song About Vel Paari

The poets who speak the truth always praise Paari. There is not alone Paari, but there is the rain which saves the world. -Kapilar

108. A Song About Vel Paari

As the last fire wood which was put in the oven was sandal wood its sweet smell mixed with the aroma of the vengai flowers spread . Paari was a patron who felt happy on giving to those who come praising his Parambu hill. If some one says that he is the gift they need, he will give himself as a gift at that moment itself. -Kapilar

109. A Song About Vel Paari

Oh three kings having hills and victorious murasus ! You three surrounded his country together. Paari's Parambu hill has four kinds of yieldings got without ploughing. There paddy grows in small leaved bamboo. There are sweet smelling jack fruits everywhere. In the valli creepers there are tubers(eatable roots). The honey combs springs honey when the male monkeys jump on them. His hill is as vast as the sky. The water sources in the hill are as many as the stars in the sky. Though you tie up your elephants to each tree, keep standing your chariots in the empty places, you cannot succeed in your effort of winning him. You cannot get his country with your swords. He won't give his country. I know how to capture his country. So you do what I say. If you with yaazhs, followed by your wives as Viraliyar and if you go singing and dancing in front of Paari, he will give his Parambu hill and his country as gifts. -Kapilar

110. A Song About Vel Parri

Oh kings! Though you three fight together , you cannot get Paari's Parambunaadu. The Paanaas have got the three hundred villages as gifts. Paari, myself and Parambu hill are still left here as gifts if you come singing to get gifts. -Kapilar