The hero speaks:
Is she a messenger of Yama?
An accomplice of Kama?
Or a damsel of hoary Tillai peerless?
Or an innocent peafowl?
Again
What may her abode be?
Flower?
Heavens?
Water?
The nether world of the Nagas?
Who can ever tell?
Translation: T. N. Ramachandran,Thanjaavoor ,1995
2.Doubt
Is she Yama’s emissary? Or spouse of the limbless one?
Or Nonpareil hoary Tillai-dame?
Or lotus bud or welkin over the holy polis
where flit proud young peacocks?
Or waters wet or kraits lair?
Or any rather than these, too deific to decipher?
Translation: S.A. Sankaranarayanan, (2009)
