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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