Posted by Vinod (136.182.2.222) on June 13, 2005 at 11:49:32:

 In Reply to: Meaning of Devi Neeye Thunai Charanam

Posted by Reshma Ananthakrishnan on June 12, 2005 at 05:41:15:

 Here are the correct words and meaning. Pretty straightforward as far as trying to dance it goes though I have not done it.

malayadhwajan mAthavamE
kAnchanamAlai puthalvi mahArAgni
alaimagaL kalaimagaL paNi kIrvANi
amudhiNaiya iniya muthamizh vaLartha

malayadhwajan - malayadhwaja pandian, father of mInAkshi
mA+thavamE - great+penance
kAnchanamAlai - the pandia queen, mother of mInakshi
puthalvi - daugher
mahArAgni - the great empress

alaimagaL - Lakshmi
kalaimagaL - saraswathi
paNi - worship
kIrvANi - lady with voice like a parrot, refers to mInAkshi

amudhiNaya - like nectar
iniya - sweet
muthamizh - tamil language in its three aspects (iyal, isai, nAtakam)
valartha - patronize

The meaning of the full verse, with interpretation would be:

You are the result of the penance of malayadhwaja pandian,
Daughter of kAnchanamAlai, great empress!
Lady with parrot-like voice, worshipped by lakshmi and saraswathi
Who patronized the three aspects of the sweeter-than-nectar language, tamizh.

Hope this helps