Nammalvar: My dark one

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My dark one

Nammalvar, Nammalvar poetry, Yoga / Hindu, Yoga / Hindu poetry, Vaishnava (Krishna/Rama) poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry

by Nammalvar
(8th Century) Timeline

English version by
A. K. Ramanujan

Original Language
Tamil

Yoga / Hindu : Vaishnava (Krishna/Rama)

8th Century

My dark one
stands there as if nothing's changed
after taking entire
into his maw
all three worlds
the gods
and the good kings
who hold their lands
as a mother would
a child in her womb--

and I
by his leave
have taken him entire

and I have him in my belly
for keeps.

-- from Hymns for the Drowning: Poems for Vishnu by Nammalvar, Translated by A. K. Ramanujan

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Themes

King

Womb

Recommended Books

	Hymns for the Drowning: Poems for Vishnu by Nammalvar, Translated by A. K. Ramanujan
	Nammalvar: (Makers of Indian Literature), Translated by A. Srinivasa Raghavan

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