Every town our home town
Kaniyan Poongunranar [Sangam Period, 3rd century BC to 4th century AD]
Kaniyan Poongunranar [Sangam Period, 3rd century BC to 4th century AD]
"Every town our home town
every man, a kinsman
Good and evil do not come from others
Pain and relief of pain come of themselves
every man, a kinsman
Good and evil do not come from others
Pain and relief of pain come of themselves
Dying is nothing new
We do not rejoice that life is sweet
nor in anger
call it bitter
We do not rejoice that life is sweet
nor in anger
call it bitter
Our lives, however dear,
follow their own course,
rafts drifting
in the rapids of a great river
sounding and dashing over rocks
after a downpour
from skies slashed by lightnings -
follow their own course,
rafts drifting
in the rapids of a great river
sounding and dashing over rocks
after a downpour
from skies slashed by lightnings -
We know this from the vision
of men who see,
So,
We are not amazed by the great
and we do not scorn the little."
of men who see,
So,
We are not amazed by the great
and we do not scorn the little."
Translated by A K Ramanujan: "Poems of Love and War: From the Eight
Anthologies and the Ten Long Poems of Classical Tamil"
Anthologies and the Ten Long Poems of Classical Tamil"
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