From this verse the second variety of metre begins
Translation: V.M.Subramanya Aiyar–Courtesy: French Institute of Pondichery / EFEO (2006)
if anyone questions about the manner in which the first cause of all things, Civaṉ, grants his grace and [about] his many attributes and greatness;
they are innumerable.
we need not dilate upon that
bowing your heads to the feet of our father.
approaching him.
Let those who are fit to receive his grace listen to them so that sufferings which cause pain, and sins which come as the cause of those.
Translation: V.M.Subramanya Aiyar–Courtesy: French Institute of Pondichery / EFEO (2006)