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.

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Tirumantiram 145 - Tantra 1 - Upon our disembodiment, our relatives forget us in a short while

ஊரெலாம் கூடி ஒலிக்க அழுதிட்டுப் 
பேரினை நீக்கிப் பிணம்-என்று பேரிட்டுச் 
சூர்-ஐயம் காட்டிடைக் கொண்டு-போய்ச் சுட்டிட்டு
நீரினில் மூழ்கி நினைப்பு ஒழிந்தார்களே.  145.

Literal Translation
1  Town-all gathered resound-to bewailed
2  Name removed corpse-as named
3  'Small-time'-shaking crematorial-place taken-gone scorched
4  Water-in submerged love impoverished (lo! coursed and counted thus)

Lucid Translation
1  With all town-people gathered and (relatives) having resoundingly bewailed (over death)
2  Having removed dead person's name and named (dead person's body) as 'corpse',
3  Having taken it to the 'small-time'-shaking (due to sorrow-filled atmosphere)
    crematorial place and scorched it there, and
4  Having submerged (themselves) in water, (lo!)
    they became impoverished in love towards dead relative
    (coursed and counted thus).

'small-time'-shaking crematorial place - crematorial place that shakes any one
 at least for a small time due to its sorrow-filled atmosphere

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