Verse 1

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In plain words

The poet, of his devotion: With love itself for the lamp-bowl, ardent longing itself for the ghee, and for the wick laid in it the mind that melts with joy, my very self melting, I have lit for Nārāyaṇa the radiant lamp of knowledge [that sees him]: I, who have made this Tamil that gives knowledge.