Pongal/Sankranti

[Chandrasekaran, Periannan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: N. Ganesan [mailto:naga_ganesan at HOTMAIL.COM]
>>
> "...
> kUtArai vellum sIrk kOvin-thA!....
> Atai utuppOm athanpinnE pARchoRu
> mUta ney peythu muzangkai vazhivArak
> kUti irun-thu kuLirn-thElOr empAvAi"
>
>  If this is the poem that Mani Varadarajan is
>  talking of Sakkarai Pongal, it is only
>  talking of cooked rice (cORu) mixed with
>  milk (pAl). This is not Pongal.
>

        I deliberately translated this to "milk rice"
to point out the problem. If Mani meant Thiruppavai
then this the closest text to pongal one can find.
(I have committed to memory all poems of ThiruppAvai as I recite
at least one poem everyday
throughout the year and )I could not find any text closer
to pongal than this.

Does Mani have in mind some other composition of ANdAL?

chandra