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Pasuram 14 : Ungal Puzhakkadai
Ragam : Anandabhairavi
Singer : Madhu Iyer
Venue : Brahma Vidya Mandir
Andal, in this fourteenth Pasuram, tells the waiting Gopi to hasten, as the sages and other devotees have already reached the temple.This song was composed in chaste Tamil over 1200 years ago by the only female Vaishnavite saint Kodhai Alwar, or Andal as she is popularly known. The pasuram is a part of the Thiruppavai, a set of thirty songs sung in Margazhi (mid-December to mid-January).
Meaning of the pasuram
In your backyard, in the garden pond
The red lotuses have bloomed
And the blue lotuses (lilies)
Have closed their petals Saffron-robed sages with their white teeth
Are going to their temples to blow the conch You who promised to awaken us earlier
You wonderfu ...