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Dear sri vaishNava perunthagaiyeer,

 

We saw in the previous post, how vaalmeeki introduced the next 'desire laden' or 'kaama mohitha' character ayOmukhi, glorifying all the time the mismatch in love, she had on lakshmaNa – that 'porundhaak kaadhal'.Sage vaalmeeki gives only 8 slokams and kamban elaborates  more on ayOmukhi – giving importance to that porundhak kaadhal – since kamban's verses are worth enjoying for their lyrical beauty and deep meanings besides the unjust 'kaama mOhitha' – we will see this and then go into other persons kaamam.

 

See description about ayOmukhi --

uyirppin neruppu umizhginRanaL

eyiRRin malaik kulam menRu inidhu uNNum

vayiRRaL vayakkodu maasuNam veesu

kayiRRin asaiththa mulai, kuzhi kaNNaaL – 43 ayOmukhip padalam

 

Meaning: when she breathes fire comes out, she has a stomach that can hold and digest even stones munched through her teeth and she is enjoying that. She wears a big snake as the garland and that snake shakes her big breasts. Her eyes are like big pits. 

 

eyiru – pal - tooth

maasuNam – a big snake

 

paRRiya kOL ari yaaLi paNikkaN

theRRiya paadha silambu silamba

iRRu ulagu yaavaiyum eeRu uRum annaaL

muRRiya gnaayiRu pOlum mugaththaaL  -- 44 ayOmukhip padalam

 

Meaning: In that pitty eyes the eyeballs are like lions' or yaaLi's, eyeballs protruding, and thus she has very dark face, shaped like the stretch of snake – paambin padam. Her steps are uneven and jingling, looks like the entire world will be easily shaken because of the steps [sizewise she is so huge]. 

 

Kolari – singam - lion

paNi – padam eduththa paambu, snake

muRRiya gnaayiru – the sun became old – means he has gone and darkness set in.

 

aazhi vaRakka mugakka amaindha

moozhai enap poli moi pila vaayaaL

koozhai puRaththu virindhadhu Or kOtpaal

oozhi neruppin uruththanai oppaaL – 45 ayOmukhip padalam

 

Meaning: When you want to drain the ocean, you need a big spoon – her mouth is having such a shape or a big hole, which looks like the spoon to drain of ocean – so big. Her hair is spread out in a curve and spread. She looked like the last big fire – kaalaagni - to destroy whole world.

 

moozhai – agappai – a large spoon

koozhai – koonthal 

kOdu – dhandham, karai – river bank, vaLaivu – a bend.

pilam – hole – [bilam in Sanskrit – taken as it is as pilam in tamil for there is no bi but all are pi only]

 

POINT: Such a monstrous figure is ayOmukhi - on seeing her LakshmaNa reacts as

 

paNdaiyil naasi izhandhu padhaikkum

thin thiRalaaL thaatakai seeraaL

kaNdagar aaya arakkar kaNaththu  Or

oNthodi aam ivaL enbadhu uNarnthaan – 50 ayOmukhip padalam

 

Meaning: LakshmaNa realized, she is like another thaatakaa, who lost her nose [chopped earlier by me] she is another 'thorn like' raakshasa [of same clan as thaatakaa]

 

kaNdagar – muL pOnra kodiya raakshasar – khandaka in Sanskrit is thorn.

 

Such an ayOmukhi suddenly falls in love with LakshmaNa and says – in all her romantic mood  - to LakshmaNa

 

pEr ezhil viiraa –

munnam oruththar thodaa mulaiyodu un

ponnin maNith thada maarbu puNarndhu

en in uyiraik kadidhu eegudhi enRaaL -- 53 ayomukhip padalam

 

Meaning: she said, "hey, greatly beautiful and valourous, come let us romance, so far nobody has touched my breasts and I want you to embrace me, with your gold coloured shining gem like broad chest, and spread on my breasts, come let us enjoy, come fast"

 

In that romantic mood, she lifted and carried LakshmaNa – the poet describes that as

aangu avaL maarbodu kaiyin adangi

poonkazhal vaar silai meevi polindhaan

veengiya venchina veezh madha vempOr

oNkal urikkuL uruththiran oththaan – 61 ayomukhip padalam

 

Meaning: [since she placed LakshmaNa on her chest while embracing him] he became insignificant between her breasts and hand, and looked like a small shining beautiful gem stone laid in a black surface, like the rudhran [sivan] among a beastly elephants' stock.

 

oNkal – azhagiya

 

Dear readers, see how the 'mismatch love' – more a 'kaamam' – 'beastly desire' is at its best described here in this padalam. That is why I thought we will enythat and then move to other points.

 

Dhasan

Vasudevan M.G. 



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