Your heat and glow are seen in the sun.
Your coolness and softness in the moon,
Your compassion and grace in the rains,
Your guardianship and patience in the earth,
Your scent and brilliance in the blossoms,
Your image and wideness in the waters,
Your form and sound in the space,
Your appearance and withdrawal in the wind,
Therefore this, that, the rest and everything else
Have descended from you
Yet are depended upon you.
He takes the form desired by the devotees;
Accepts the name decided upon by them;
Even as they love and envision Him
and meditate upon Him ceaselessly,
he becomes that image.
You are the heat within the fire; Fragrance within the flower; Gem within the stone; Truth within the word; Mercy within justice; Might behind valour; Secret within the scripture; Foremost among elements; Splendour in the sun; Coolness in the moon; You are everything; and also the inner substance of these. (Paripadal, iii: 63-68)
Paripaatal contains seventy poems on various deities of the Hindu pantheon. This is a rare example of religious poetry we find in Sangam literature and is possibly the oldest religious composition in Tamil. The poems have associated music (பண்) so that these can be classified as songs (இசைப்பா). There are eight songs on Thirumaal (Vishnu), 31 songs on Kumaran (Muruga), one song on the Sea God, 26 on the mother Vaigai and four songs on Madurai. These songs are written in the 'Paripaatal' meter.
Ettuthokai The Eight Anthologies' - Classical Tamil poetic work - form part of thePathinenmaelkanakku anthology series of the Sangam Literature. Ettuthokai and its companion anthologyPattupattu are some of the oldest available Tamil Literature and dated to belong to between 200 BCE and 200 CE.
Your coolness and softness in the moon,
Your compassion and grace in the rains,
Your guardianship and patience in the earth,
Your scent and brilliance in the blossoms,
Your image and wideness in the waters,
Your form and sound in the space,
Your appearance and withdrawal in the wind,
Therefore this, that, the rest and everything else
Have descended from you
Yet are depended upon you.
He takes the form desired by the devotees;
Accepts the name decided upon by them;
Even as they love and envision Him
and meditate upon Him ceaselessly,
he becomes that image.
You are the heat within the fire; Fragrance within the flower; Gem within the stone; Truth within the word; Mercy within justice; Might behind valour; Secret within the scripture; Foremost among elements; Splendour in the sun; Coolness in the moon; You are everything; and also the inner substance of these. (Paripadal, iii: 63-68)
Paripaatal contains seventy poems on various deities of the Hindu pantheon. This is a rare example of religious poetry we find in Sangam literature and is possibly the oldest religious composition in Tamil. The poems have associated music (பண்) so that these can be classified as songs (இசைப்பா). There are eight songs on Thirumaal (Vishnu), 31 songs on Kumaran (Muruga), one song on the Sea God, 26 on the mother Vaigai and four songs on Madurai. These songs are written in the 'Paripaatal' meter.
Ettuthokai The Eight Anthologies' - Classical Tamil poetic work - form part of thePathinenmaelkanakku anthology series of the Sangam Literature. Ettuthokai and its companion anthologyPattupattu are some of the oldest available Tamil Literature and dated to belong to between 200 BCE and 200 CE.
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