THE TEARS OF THE
MOON
'thingaL mugam pani
padiakkum azhagAr..'
We have heard of crocodile tears, the
tears from the eyes. The happy tears, the tears of
sorrow.
What is this? tears from the
moon?
![]() The maidens of the dhivya-dhEsam
'kAzi-sErAma viNNagaram' are beautiful.The pretty women stand on the
top storey, with their mid-portion -which is like vudukkai- their
faces are raidant, bright and sparkling. It is customary and commonplace
to observe poets comparing girls with flowers and moon. Here,
however, the moon became crestfallen on seeing the radiance and the beauty
of their faces. It introspected itself " What a life we are
leading. Despite the fact that we are compared for beauty, we cannot match their
countenance" and the tears start
falling.
swAmi peirya vAchAn piLLai's
vyAkyAnam is a class.
The moon thinks as said above ' "nAm enna jEvanam jEvikkiRoam, ivargaLoAdu, oppuch sollach
seidhEa, oppup pOrAdha padi iruppadhEa" enRu dhukkap padA niRkum AyiRru.
chandhranukkuch chandran ivargaL" '
thingal mugam pani padaikkum
azhagAr
(to be
continued)
vanamamalai
padmanabhan
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