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Tirrukural, the - Book 3 Unabashed
Identifier
022864
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
NOTES – The meaning of Madal - A lover, driven to proclaiming his love so that he could marry his lover, drew a portrait of her, put down on it her name, the place as well as his own, and mounting a horse made of palm leaves drew it publicly, so that the villagers, the girl's parents or the king might pity him and effect the marriage. This was the ancient practice of madal.
A description of the experience
Tirrukural, the - Book 3 Unabashed
1131. To know love and to lose it! No way but this-
To mount the madal to have it again.
1132. Away with shame! Soul and body
Can bear no more, and will mount the madal
1133. I had manliness once and shame, but today
Wish only to mount the madal.
1134. What is the raft of "Will" and "Won't"
Against love's raging waters?
1135. Night's yearnings and the madal to cure them
Are the gifts of that braceleted girl.
1136. Even at midnight I think of the madal
Sleepless for love of her.
1137. Women are lucky-their love may rage,
But not for them the madal.
1138. Love, pitiless and tearless, has dragged
All my secrets out.
1139. My love saying, "No one knows me"
Has budded and blown in the streets!
1140. Fools mock us to our face, not having endured
What we have.