The Visions of the Night
விழித்திருக்கையில் வராத காதலர் கனவில் வந்து ஆறுதல் தருவதைத் தோழிக்கு உரைத்தல். — Praising dreams: "He who visits not by day comes tenderly in my sleep."
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naṉaviṉā ṉannīttā reṉpar kaṉaviṉāṟ / kāṇārko livvū ravar.
“They say, that he in waking hours has left me lone; / In dreams they surely see him not,- these people of the town;”
“These village folk say that he hath parted from me: is it that they see him not in dreams?”
This town says he has left me and gone. Can it be that they do not see him — the way he comes to me, unfailing, in my dreams?
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Parimelazhagar’s commentary
13th century · public domainParimelazhagar’s own words come first, unaltered. The plain reading follows below.
இவ்வூரவர் நனவினான் நம்நீத்தார் என்பர்= இவ்வூரின்மகளிர் நனவின்கண் நம்மை நீத்தார் என்று நம்காதலரைக் கொடுமைகூறாநிற்பர்; கனவினாற் காணார்கொல்= அவர் கனவின்கண் நீங்காதுவருதல் கண்டறியாரோ, எ-று.
Source: Tamil Wikisource
Seeing only that he stays away by day, the town slanders him as having abandoned me; do they not know that every night he visits me unfailingly in dream?