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		"I am a servitor of Perumizhalai-k-Kurumpar"

						- The Tiru-th-Tonda-th-Tokai.

1. 	Perumizhalai in the land of Mizhalai is rich
	In groves of mango tree, bunchy coconut trees,
	Jack fruit and areca trees (and is girt with fields);
	The streets thereof blaze with the lustre of the holy ahs;
	It is a hoary town renowned for its citizens established
	Unswervingly in the way of Vedic piety.				(1706)

2. 	Mizhalai-k-Kurumpar was the prince of the hoary and holy place;
	The would receive the devotees of the Lord who wears
	The crescent in His crest and do untold, all services
	Required by them by sheer divination; it was thus
	He came by the fruit of his mellowing knowledge.		(1707)

3. 	Endless was the food he provided for the devotees
	Who came in throngs; he would confer on them all
	Wealth immense humbly; he enshrined
	In his lotus-heart the roseate flower-feet of the Lord
	The locks of whose Consort are buzzed over by honey-bees.	(1708)

4. 	As he thus throve for the world to come by a knowledge
	Of the infinitude of divine servitorship, he hailed
	As ordained the Tiru-th-Tonda-th-Tokai inseparable from the minds
	Of devotees; he hailed its author Nampi Aroorar;
	Blessed with the grace of the Lord he was stablished
	In the worship of His divine feet.				(1709)



5. 	With his hands he adored, with his tongue he hailed
	And with his mind he meditated the feet of the lord
	Of Paravai whose great eyes were tinct with collyrium;
	Thus he throve. “This indeed is the path of deliverance
	Leading to the auric feet roseate unknown to the lord
	Of Lakshmi, and Brahma too!” Thus he thought
	And thus he lived in unison with his faith.			(1710)

6. 	By virtue of his quotidian chanting of the name
	Of Nampi Aroorar, he became a master of the Siddhis
	Eightfold, commencing from Anima; thereafter
	As his devotion grew multifold, he attained the beatitude
	In which only Panchakshara -- the name of the First One --,
	Constituted his kith and kin, wealth and consciousness.		(1711)

7. 	As thus he flourished, Van-tondar who was claimed
	By the Lord -- whose banner sports the Bull, and who walked on earth
	His beauteous and divine feet touching it, and who also
	Vanquished him in His lis against him, by flourishing
	A deed of palm-leaf before the assembly --,
	Came to Kodungkoloor the tops of whose mansions
	Tocuhed the very moon.						(1712)

8. 	Van-tondar hymned in garlands of Tamil verse
	The nectarean Lord of Tiruvanjaikkalam who devoured
	Venom; by the grace of the Lord of celestials, it was
	Clear to him that he was to reach thence Mount Kailas
	In the north; the heart of Mizhalai-k-Kurumpar conned this
	Clearly even when he was here in his far-away town.		(1713)

9. 	“Van-tondar of Tirunavaloor, renowned on earth,
	Is reaching the inaccessible Kailas divine on the morrow;
	Parted from him I will not languish like them
	Who still continue to live having lost the pupils
	Of their eyes!” Thus resolving he said: “I will attain
	The feet of Lord Siva this day itself by yoga.”			(1714)

10. 	All his inner organs became one; pure consciousness
	Streamed through suzhu-manai; by cultivated yoga
	Pranava caused the opening of Brahmarantra;
	Through this his spirit coursed its way to the Kailas
	To the feet of the Primal One even before Nampi Aroorar
	Could there arrive.						(1715)

11. 	Adoring the feet of Mizhalai-k-Kurumpar who reached 
	The feet of the Lord of Mount Kailas, by his constant
	Yogic exercise, never to part from the feet of the lord
	Of Parava, I proceed to narrate the glory
	Of Karaikkal Ammai whose mien soft excels
	Even that of the peafowl and whose words excel
	The sweet melody of the kuyil.					(1716)

Sincere thanks to Sri. T N Ramachandran of thanjavur, for permitting his English rendering of the holy text periyapurANam be published here.