• Mambazham Kavitha Lyrics Malayalam
• Mambazham Kavitha Lyrics English
• Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon Mambazham Kavitha Lyrics
• Mambazham Kavitha Lyrics

Mambhazham by Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon

For More Songs Please Subscribe Kavitha: Mampazham Album: Mampazham Lyrics: Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon Sung by: Prof.V. Mambazham (മാമ്പഴം) is the most famous poem by Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon.He penned it in 1936. The poem portrays a mother mourning her son and was a part of a collection published in 1936, in the Onam Edition of the Mathrubhumi newspaper. Menon states the main inspiration behind this poem is the memory of his brother, who died when he was four years old. Mambazhamam Mambazham song lyrics listed in the site are for promotional purposes only; We do not provide paid / free Mambazhamam Mambazham song download. Mambazhamam Mambazham meaning & Mambazhamam Mambazham lyrics meaning are available in the tamil Mambazhamam Mambazham translation section. Find all new malayalam song lyrics and song details like raga, scale, time signature, etc. Peeppi is the fastest growing malayalam lyrics database, we provide a platform for you to add new songs and edit changes in existing song lyrics.

Part 1:

Part 2: App mail for mac os.

Mambazham (by Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon) is one of my favorite poems. In this beautiful poem, the poet depicts the heartache and memories of a mourning mother who lost her child to death. Her sadness is amplified by the sight of a ripe mango falling from the tree, which reminds her of her son and a related event. I wanted to share the story told by this poem.
This is not a literal translation nor is it an attempt to explain every single line of the poem. This is my effort to articulate the story and pictures that comes to my mind every time I listen/read to this beautiful poem.

(Loose) Translation:
With the sight of the season’s first mango fruit (ripe) falling from the tree in her courtyard, warm tears started shedding from mother’s eyes. Four months ago, when the mango tree was budding (after a long time), the mother’s child (son) came to her running with handful of buds, to show how he can imitate a firework with the flowers (mango buds). The mother got angry and scolded the child for destroying the mango bud. She asked him “Naughty boy! You are supposed to be the one running to pick up these mangoes when they get ripe, instead you destroyed the mango buds without waiting until they became ripe mangoes. Do you want spanking?”.
[My side-note: I am not sure my translation did justice to the scene … imagine a kid running to you with all his/her innocence trying to show you something. But then you see he/she has ruined a flower or picked a raw tomato that you were waiting to ripen … As adults, we usually get mad and yell at them. We don’t share the same excitement as the kid’s. Even worse, we hurt the kid’s feelings.]
Hearing this, the child’s mood changed, his face dropped, and then his eyes filled with tears. “I am not going to come to pick up the ripe mangoes!” He said this and threw the buds on the floor and walked away.

At this, the poet says, “Kids, who can barely add words to make a sentence, you are like the Gods who can see the future”
Before the summer heat could ripen the mangoes, without waiting for the ripe mangoes to fall from the tree, the mother’s child left her nest and went to the Other world (Heaven).

Mambazham Kavitha Lyrics Malayalam

[Second part of the poem. ]

Now, when he is living as the darling of those people who live in the sky … the first mango fruit (ripe) fell from the tree in the courtyard, and warm tears started flowing from his mother’s eyes. The golden fruit that has fallen, so that her son can taste its nectar, is lying on her courtyard without any takers (without anyone claiming it). All of the neighbors’ kids are happily playing under their mango trees and eagerly praying (requesting) to the squirrel to drop down some mangoes for them. When a mango does fall down, they race among each other to get it . Just like this, for everyone else it is festive atmosphere of spring, but for her it is the darkest of the rainy seasons made of her own tears.

She stood there remembering this painful memory for a while and then she picked up that mango fruit, which is a sign of her misfortune, and took it to the place where her son’s delicate body is buried and placed it on his grave, and spoke these words “Without knowing the truth (that you have died), this fruit has come to existence only for you, my darling son, to be held in your delicate hands, and to be tasted by your baby mouth. In the past, even when you have walked away from me angry at me and even after throwing tantrums, you always used to come back to me shyly when it is time to have food and I called you to eat. Just like that, please come back my darling son (who I cannot see with my eyes anymore), come back to eat this fruit that your mother has brought for you, only then will this mother be relieved.”

At that point, the loving son’s soul in the form of a cool breeze blew to console the mourning mother.

———————————————–

Vailoppilli believed that children are like GOD and their words can come true, Mambhazam is tragic Malayalam poem that touched hearts.

Mambazham Kavitha Lyrics English

Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon Mambazham Kavitha Lyrics

This is the second stanza of the Malayalam poem Mambhazam by Vailoppilli Sreedhara Menon that depicts a grieving mother who regrets restricting her son from plucking mango flowers.

Read the first stanza of this poem here.
The stanza describes words of a mother who arrogantly told her son that you should understand that flowers become mango fruit and he will not be allowed to pick mango when it becomes ripe and falls off the tree. She furiously asked him that if he needed spanking for trashing the mango flowers? The child felt very sad about his mother’s warning and his face frowned.

Mambazham Kavitha Lyrics