A couple of days back, I happened to listen to this song.... I like this song ever since the movie got released... But only now, suddenly, it just flashed in my mind that this song hails the greatness of KAVERI and so did Kalki in PS....
Now I started enjoying this song very much and realised its a pleasure to go thru the lyrics of Vaali.... am sure he must have been inspired by Kalki's fantastic description of Kaveri and her magnanimity....
So yaan petra inbam... idho lyrics... neengalum rasikka....
there is a mGr song also describing cauvery in the first lines. describes all places the river takes on its path. also must be by vali the main song is " niinga nalla irukkanum naadu munnera......
In silapathigaram, ilangoadikal mentions kaveri's greatness in few songs... i did remember couple of songs that will end with 'nadandhai vaazhi kaveri...' i'm sure you guys would be aware of it...
I am touched by the way silapathigaram hails kaveri..!
chanced below sometime ago, in an english (old book) on tamil poems....not had the time to check...maybe our experts can assist:
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Ouvay means The Elderly Lady. She was also called Curlyuccupadi, or She who sang for a Meal, a title for which she was indebted to the vanity of a dancing-girl, Silambi of Ambal, and the churlishness of the poet Cambar, who bought many meals for one song. Silambi had offered the versifier five hundred pons for a metrical inscription in her praise. That being only half the price he took for a stanza of the sort, he inscribed with charcoal but half a verse on the wall of her dwelling, and craftily departed.
Fortunately Ouvay called presently ; and for merely a dish of rice, she removed the girl's perplexity, and defeated the selfish rhymester's object.
He had written
Of rivers the best is Cavery, and Chola all kings surpasses, Of lands his are the richest, and the comeliest of lasses
Ouvay completed the inscription by adding
Is Silambi of Ambal, and no silambu's so sweet As the golden one soft tinkling upon her lotus-feet.
It is the "Kanal Vari" songs which talk about Kaveri in Cilappathikaaram.
They start like "Thingal maalai ven kudaiyan.."
In a old Tamil movie "Karumbu" the Kanal vari songs were recorded by a Bengali Musician Salil Chowdhury. The songs were sung by K J Jesudas as well as by P Suseela. The K J J version is mesmerizing... These songs were very popular in the old Ceylon radio.