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Re: /cinnaJ/ciRu kAlE: Shri Harikrishnan's and Shri Vasudevan's comments

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Nanmaaran • September 30, 2002 


Dear Sir,
Let us not try to force our thought into the pasurams like this. Enough discussions and points were given and still let us not attempt to somehow divert meanings..(valinthu poruL kollaamal irukka vEndukirEn..).She was not a amateur poet to put wrong words and allow us to modify later.
Please note there is no one unwanted word put and no one wanted word missed out in the pasurams. That is why even the great manavaaLa maamuni has sung in praise of her as 
anjukudikoru santhathiyaay, aazhwaar thancheyalai vinji nirkum thanmaiyalaai, pinjil pazhuthaaLai, aandaaLai bakthiyudan naaLum vazhuthaai manamE magizhnthu..
Let us leave our EGO aside and try to see the elixir of aandaaL's pasurams..
Regards,
Nanmaaran 

Visu9@aol.com wrote:/Om namO nArAyaNAya ||

> Shri Harikrishnan and Shri Nanmaaran have raised the issue that if the
> expression refers to "leg", the correct expression should have 
> been /cinaJ/ciru kAl. I do think that that is a valid point of view, but 
> Shri /ANTAL must have considered it and rejected it for a reason somewhat 
> along the following lines:

> Let us look at the rhymes: They >
> are /ciRRam, /poRRA, /peRRam, /kuRRE, /iRRai, /eRRaikkum /uRROmE, 
> and /maRRai. 

> Let us try replacements: 

> /cinnaJ, /ponn(am), /????, /kunRi, /inRu, /enRu, /unRan or /untan, and /mannum. 

> There are other variations that are available. But the word /peRRam seems to 
> be unique. And that was the point I wished to make, when I wrote my original 
> translation of the /pAcuram for celebrating /krushnA/jayanti. 

> It seems to me that /ANTAL put all her literary weight on that 
> expression /peRRam and opted for variations like /ciRRam and /iRRai etc. 
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