Kachchi rangan kripai - kalyani - padam

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Carnaticworldmusic
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Kachchi rangan kripai - kalyani - padam

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Namaskaram
Request meaning for below Tamizh words from the song
Kachchi rangan kripai - kalyani - padam
kacchi rangan krpai ena uccitamAi kiDaittadu iccaivara innam avar paTSamE lakSAndiramE
anupallavi

maccilibandardAnena koccikuDagu tAn enamaTram aTra dEshaNgaLil rAjanena bhOjanena iccagattinil migavum mecci pugazh koNDa jaganmohanaNgaL seyyum vegu nAgarIkamAna durai

caraNam

pinnE eNNAmal koDukkum mannar ivar tAnaDi kannal kadari taLaikkum nanaiyama nanjai punjai
anna dAnamum svarnamum enna vENumO adellAm Adarittu kAppATri siddharum ivar tAnaDi

Meaning needed :
"iccaivara innam avar paTSamE lakSAndiramE"
maccilibandardAnena koccikuDagu

kannal kadari taLaikkum nanaiyama nanjai

Kindly put the meanings here itself on this thread - no need for email etc etc

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Re: Kachchi rangan kripai - kalyani - padam

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I am guessing this is what they mean

"iccaivara innam avar paTSamE lakSAndiramE" - To get more of what I desire, his favour/partiality is like another lakh (coins/gold)

maccilibandardAnena koccikuDagu - from the latter part of the line, this seems to refer to kingdoms/regions of South India. Kochi and Kudagu are of course kochi and Coorg. Maccili and Bandar are both synonymous with Masulipatnam, an important trade centre for Europeans then.

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kannal kadari taLaikkum nanaiyama nanjai - I think it must be :

kannal kadali tazhaikkum nannayamA nanjai - Nanjai (irrigated) and punjai (rain-fed) fields where sugarcanes (kannal) and banana (kadali) flourish beneficially.

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Re: Kachchi rangan kripai - kalyani - padam

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Thank you v much !
Do you have any reference for sugarcane being called kannal in Tamizh - I thought called Karumbu

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karumbu is the common term. kannal is found in many literary works eg Sivapuranam of Manikkavachakar.

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Awesome thank you 🙏

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