Lamenting at Evening
மாலை நேரம் காதலரின் பிரிவை ஒரு போர்க்களமாய் மாற்றித் தாக்குவதாக இரங்குதல். — Twilight (மாலை) arriving like an executioner, intensifying the agony of separation.
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kātala rilvaḻi mālai kolaikkaḷat / tētilar pōla varum.
“When absent is my love, the evening hour descends, / As when an alien host to field of battle wends.”
“When the beloved is away, evening approacheth even as the executioner advancing to the execution-ground.”
With the one I love not here, evening comes the way strangers come into a killing-ground — with no bond to me at all, and with my life as its errand.
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Parimelazhagar’s commentary
13th century · public domainParimelazhagar’s own words come first, unaltered. The plain reading follows below.
மாலை= காதலர் உள்ளபொழுதெல்லாம் என்னுயிர் தளிர்ப்ப வந்தமாலை; காதலர் இல்வழி= அவரில்லாத இப்பொழுது; கொலைக்களத்து ஏதிலர் போல வரும்= அஃது ஒழிந்துநிற்றலேயன்றிக் கொல்லுங் களரியிற் கொலைஞர் வருமாறு போல அவ்வுயிரைக் கோடற்கு வாராநின்றது, எ-று.
Source: Tamil Wikisource
When my beloved was beside me, dusk brought nothing but sweetness; now in his absence, it arrives as a grim execution ground that claims my life.
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