Quote Originally Posted by Ilavenil
2. kIrththith thiru agaval

thillai mUdhUr ADiya thiruvaDi
pal uyir ellAm payinRanan Agi
eNil palguNam ezilbeRa viLaNgi
maNNum viNNum vAnOr ulagum
thunniya kalvi thORRiyum aziththum 5

ennuDai iruLai ERaththurandhum
aDiyAr uLLaththu anbu mIdhUrak
kuDiyAk koNDa koLgaiyum chiRappum
mannum mAmalai magEndhiram adhanil
chonna Agamam thORRuviththu aruLiyum 10

kallA Taththuk kalandhu inidhu aruLi
n^allA LODu nayappuRavu eydhiyum
panychap paLLiyil pAlmozi thannoDum
enychAdhu INDum inaruL viLaiththum
kirAdha vEDamoDu kinychuga vAyavaL 15

virAvu koNgai naldhaDam paDindhum
kEvEDar Agik keLiRadhu paDuththum
mAvETTu Agiya Agamam vANgiyum
maRRavai thammai magEndhiraththu irundhu
uRRa aim mugaNgaLAL paNiththu aruLiyum 20

nandham pADiyil nAn maRaiyOnAy
andhamil AriyanAy amarndhu aruLiyum
vERu vERu uruvum vERuvERu iyaRkaiyum
nURu nu|Ru Ayiram iyalbinadhu Agi
ERu uDai Ichan ippuvaniyai uyyak 25
G.U. Pope

he sacred foot that danced in Tillai's city old
Is His, Who in all varied lives has energized;
Revealed in beauty of innumerous, varied qualities;
In earth, in sky, and in celestial worlds.
All ordered lore hath He revealed, and He made void. (5)
My darkness hath He driven for aye far off.
Within His servants' inmost soul that love o'erflows
He dwells, - His glory and His choice.
On great MahEndra's biding hill
In grace He caused the uttered Agamas appear. (10)
He came with the good goddess,
Pleasant and gracious, mingling with men at KallAdam.
With her whose words are milk in the 'fivefold couch,'
He caused sweet grace, that unfailing accumulates, to grow.
In guise of a woodman, of her whose lips are crimson, (15)
He sank in the lovely expanse of the swelling breast.
Becoming a fisherman He caught the shark.
And he received the Agamas, a rich spoil.
Moreover, on MahEndra seated, the self-same Agamas
From His five mouths He graciously spake forth. (20)
In our abode a BrAhman He became,
And as a deathless Guru dwelt in grace.
Assuming diverse forms, and diverse habitudes,
As hundreds of hundreds of thousands of natures,
I Can, Lord of the bull, that the world might be saved, - (25)