Girl with love sickness mocking the priest of Murugan
  • I have listed here a set of poems with a common motif.

    Motif: A young girl who is fallen in love with the hero, has become
    sick due to separation from lover. She is waiting to get embraced by
    her lover.The love of the young girl is a secret and no one knows
    about it.The mother of the young girl seeing her sickness thinks she
    is changed and probably ill. Hence soothsaying women are invited to
    find the cause for the young girl's illness.The soothsaying women
    wrongly diagnose the sickness as Murukan Arananku('the hard sacred
    power of Murugan') has possessed her. So the mother invites Velan(the
    priest of Murugan) to perform sacrifices to Murugan and to Pacify him.

    http://karkanirka.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/lovesickness/

    Vairam
  • Dear Vairam,

    Hail Thee for joining Nataraj (vaaram oru aalayam)- both of you take
    pains to post details of selfless nature tho" very rarely responded..


    Will take your Sangam literature postings and put my views.. tho"
    take time..

    thanks and best regards / sps
  • Absolutely beautiful, thanks!!

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