pirugalAm tavam - tiruNAvukkarasar tEvAram

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 05 Mar 2007, 10:22

Could I request the lyrics and the meaning of this song. A Google search yielded only Vijay Siva's recording and shaivam.org does not seem to feature this particular tEvAram.

mahakavi · Post by **mahakavi** » 05 Mar 2007, 20:37

prashant:
Are these words the starting words? I tried to look for these as starting words in appar's 4th tirumuRai which contains 1070 verses without success.
You can search for it here:
http://siddhanta.shaivam.org/thiru46.html

Tirunavakkurasar has 3 tirumuRais 4,5, and 6. You can get all these at the above site. Click on the pdf version.

Each of the tirumuRai has about 1000 verses each.

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 28 Mar 2007, 16:03

mahakavi: Thanks for your help. I finally found it [tirumuRai 5.88.1 - Page 21] at the below link.

http://www.geocities.com/nayanmars/thEv ... nglish.pdf

I'd very much appreciate a translation by your or anyone of the other board members knowledgeable in Tamil. Thanks!

drshrikaanth · Post by **drshrikaanth** » 28 Mar 2007, 16:43

The lyrics (split)

perugalAm tavam pEdaimai tIralAm
tirugalAgiya sindai tiruttalAm
parugalAm paramAydOr Anandam
marugalAn aDi vAzhtti vaNangavE ||

drshrikaanth · Post by **drshrikaanth** » 28 Mar 2007, 16:48

Ones good deeds/virtue can accrue and increase; Ones folly/ignorance can disappear; Ones crooked thought can be straightened; One can experience/partake of divine bliss; If one sings praise of and worships/bows to the feet of That dancer (naTarAja)

marugalAn aDi= kuncitapada.
The import is that even the most difficult things can be achieved/obtained by His grace by worshipping His feet.

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 28 Mar 2007, 16:54

Thanks DRS for that evocative translation of this verse.

drshrikaanth · Post by **drshrikaanth** » 28 Mar 2007, 17:03

Welcome Prashant.

marugalAn aDi- Im now rethinking. It is not maRu so my interpretation could be erroneous there. aDi is of course foot. Its the marukalAn thats dodgy.

vgvindan · Post by **vgvindan** » 28 Mar 2007, 18:39

IMHO it is maRukAlan - one (dancing with) the other leg - Nataraja changes his leg at the request of a devotee - http://aaththigam.blogspot.com/2007/03/17.html

drshrikaanth · Post by **drshrikaanth** » 28 Mar 2007, 18:46

vgv
The tamizh PDF file spells it as marukalAn. maRukal means being crooked/twisted etc.

thanjavur · Post by **thanjavur** » 28 Mar 2007, 20:08

marugalAnadi - means (at the) feet of the Lord of Thirumarugal (the T in T N Rajaratnam Pillai).

Songs (865-874) in 5.88 are on the deity at Thirumarugal (God : Manikkavannar/Rathnagireeswarar ;
Goddess : Vanduvaarkuzhalammai/Aamothaalaka Nayaki ; Sthala tree : Marugal - a kind
of banana)

The heading for 5.88 in the Tamil pdf is Thirumarugal - Thiruk kurun doghai
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mahakavi · Post by **mahakavi** » 28 Mar 2007, 20:11

It has to be "marugalAn" in order to rhyme (edugai) with peru, tiru, paru in the first three lines.

vgvindan · Post by **vgvindan** » 28 Mar 2007, 20:14

What 'thanjavur' states seems to be correct - tirumarugal is a Siva sthala on the south bank of kAvEri.

drshrikaanth · Post by **drshrikaanth** » 28 Mar 2007, 20:31

Thanks Thanavur. That makes perfect sense. Moral- "Always look at basic and easy explanations"

mahakavi · Post by **mahakavi** » 28 Mar 2007, 20:33

Just as an explanation, the name tirumarugal was derived from the stala vruksham (the temple tree), tiru being the honorific. marugal is a type of a plantain tree (vAzhai).

Sorry thanjavur, I didn't see that you mentioned it in your post.

vasya10 · Post by **vasya10** » 28 Mar 2007, 20:47

More info about tirumarugal here: http://www.templenet.com/Tamilnadu/s227.html

the tevaram's step by step approach is a beauty - by good deeds, one dispels ignorance, when ignorance is gone, the mind becomes pure, when mind becomes pure, one can imbibe the bliss.

drshrikaanth · Post by **drshrikaanth** » 28 Mar 2007, 20:52

Yes vasya10
sat first, then cit and lastly Ananda.