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(Unbiased
Reporting 2)
kaRavA maDa
nAgu
ààààà
ààààààà
The first two lines of the pAsuram
reads as follows :
kARavA mada nAgu than
kanRu vuLLinAR pole ,
maRavAdhu adiyEan
vunnaiyEa azhaikkinREAn" 7-1-1;
A superficial study of the pAsuram
will give the meaning
"The Lord being likened to a
unmlked cow thinking of the calf --the first line.
The second line says --The calf
without forgetting calls for the Lord.
"Amudhanar tried to interpret
the line "kaRavA mada
nAgu than kanRu uLLinAr pOl" as "karavA mada nAgu, than kanRinai uLLinAr pOl" - that is, like a cow which has not been milked yet thinking of its calf. However, this did not go with the next line where Azhvar refers to himself (the calf) calling out to the Lord (the cow). When Parasara Bhattar was presented with this pasuram, he explained it as follows: "kaRavA mada nAgu than kanRu, (than thAyai) uLLinAR pOl". That is, the calf (Azhvar) of the cow which has not been milked yet, thinking of its mother (the Lord)." The fact that AmudhanAr was having
problems in interpretation and Sri Bhattar's vyAkyanic prowess came to fore, are
recorded without inhibition by Sri PeriyavAchAn PiLLai in The Periya Thirumozhi
vyAkyAnam.
DAsAn Oppiliappan Koil Varadachari Sadagopan http://www.sadagopan.org
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