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SrI:
 
Dear SrI Padmanabhan svami,
 
The Elephant series clearly brings the picture of the vEzham mentioned in various pAsurams, which sometimes refer to SrI Rama and SrI KrishNA too.
 
This particular term 'kaimA' is a special word in tamizh in that it means only the elephant.
 
All the other terms referring to the Jumbo, have atleast two different meanings.
 
aDiyEn recalls a sanga-t-tamizh-p-pADal which has a talaivan telling talaivi on the elephant he has got in dAnam.
 
As he tells that he has got a 'kari' or 'vEzham' or 'kaLiRu' or 'kambamA', she takes it differently.
 
But when he says 'kaimA' , she is awe-struck with wonder and knows what he has got in dAnam.
 
The poem ends like this:
 
..........kambamA enrEn naRkaLiyAm enrAL;
kaimmA enREn summA kalanginALE.'
 
After the 'ELEPHANT' series, please take up with the 'LOTUS' series.
 
dAsan
Mukundan


From:  Padmanabhan  
 Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 11:58 PM
To: ramanuja; Oppiliappan; vanamamalai; divyadesams
Subject: [Vanamamalai] The Elephant 5-kaimA

kaimA
 
kaimA representing a long hand also refers to an elephant has also been used as noun and adjective by AzhwAr-s.
 
What does this hand possess -tusk alluding to wealth and this is what ThriumangaiAzhwAr mentions in the mAmalla puram pAsuram.The tusks are being carried sagging the vessels on the sea towards Thriukkadal mallai. Similarly, the wealth of ThriunaRaiyUr is embedded with this teeth of the jumbo.
 
'pulam koL nidhik kuvaiyOdu-puzhaik kaimA kaLiRRinamum' The Elpheants with tusks; kaimA- adjective. Periya Thirumzohi 2-6-6;
 
'pushaik kaimA karik kODum' The tusks of elephants.kaimA-Adjective 6-9-6;
 
 
Here comes however the masterpiece. It is not that PeiryAzhwAt alone has compared the walking elegance of the Lord with that of the elephant. Here is the pAsuram from KulasEkarAzhwAr. Dasaratha chakravarthy does not miss the Lord when he was in exile. He also yearned for the walk of the Almighty. He longed for the style of the stroll of Sri Chakravarthith Thirumagan
'kaimAvin nadai anna nadai azhagum '  The elephant like soft walk. perumAL Thriumzohi 9-6;   kaimA-noun.
Is it all on elephants ? more to  follow.
 
dAsan
vanamamalai padmanabhan




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