One Word Many Meanings

Each Classical Tamil word has many possible meanings

Because in incantation languages like Classical Tamil, each word has many possible meanings to it, with mind humbly invoking Lord Siva's Grace, we just have to look into the classical Tamil dictionary for the meaning of each word in a Tirumantiram verse that yields a coherent and wholesome meaning.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Tirumantiram 157 - Tantra 1 - Close relatives close their minds and depart, upon our death

ஆர்த்தெழு சுற்றமும் பெண்டிரும் மக்களும்
ஊர்த்துறைக் காலே ஒழிவர் ஒழிந்தபின்
வேர்த்தலைப்* போக்கி விறகிட்டு எரிமூட்டி
நீர்த்தலை மூழ்குவர் நீதி இல்லோரே         157

Reverberating and embracing relatives (men), (their) women and (their) children,
Town-frontier-separating-way-in disappear-will, (and) disappeared-after,
Tear-suffering* having-cast, logs-having-piled-up (and) fire-having-lit
Water-tip dip-will truth-force bereft-of-ones                   157

Those men, women and children who reverberate and embrace (while one is alive),
will disappear in the way separating the frontier of the town (in which one's dead body abides),
and after having disappeared, those that are bereft of truth-force, will,-
a)  cast aside their tear-suffering (which suffering they merely displayed),
b)  pile up the logs (for burning the dead one's body), (and) light up the funeral pyre, and
c)  dip themselves in the tip of the water (only to clean their bodies)

*  வேர்த்தல் although may mean "sweat flowing from the skin due to heat",
    here it may be said to mean
    "tears flowing from the eyes due to suffering (displayed on the occasion of the death of a relative)"

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