Purananuru - Part 246
All of you noble men! All of you noble men!
You do not let me go, you do not allow me to put
an end to my life! All you noble men with your perverse planning!
I am not a woman to endure eating a ball of boiled rice
squeezed within a hand and left lying overnight on a leaf
without a touch of fine fragrant ghee pale as the seeds
from a curving cucumber striped like a squirrel and split
open with a sword, or to eat food of steamed velai leaves
cooked in tamarind and a paste of white sesame seeds,
nor am I one to sleep, without a mat, upon a bed of stones!
To you the pyre of black branches that has been raised
on the burning ground may well be fearful but to me,
now that my husband with his powerful arms has died,
a lake flowing with water where lotuses
open their luxuriant petals and the fire are the same!
You do not let me go, you do not allow me to put
an end to my life! All you noble men with your perverse planning!
I am not a woman to endure eating a ball of boiled rice
squeezed within a hand and left lying overnight on a leaf
without a touch of fine fragrant ghee pale as the seeds
from a curving cucumber striped like a squirrel and split
open with a sword, or to eat food of steamed velai leaves
cooked in tamarind and a paste of white sesame seeds,
nor am I one to sleep, without a mat, upon a bed of stones!
To you the pyre of black branches that has been raised
on the burning ground may well be fearful but to me,
now that my husband with his powerful arms has died,
a lake flowing with water where lotuses
open their luxuriant petals and the fire are the same!
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