sathuramAmathiL soozhilangaikkiRaivan thalaipaththu
uthiravOtti OrvenkaNaiyuyththavanOtha vaNNan
mathuramAvaNdupAda mAmayilAdarangaththammAn thiruvayiR
Ruthara panthamennuLLaththuL ninRulAkinRathE

Meaning:
He who is residing in Srirangam, which has bees singing sweetly and grand peacocks dancing, who sent one fierce arrow to drop the ten heads of the lord of Lanka which is surrounded on all four sides by lofty walls, whose color is that of the cool ocean, His ornament that He wears around His waist ("utharapantham") has now entered my inner heart and settled there.

Essence:
AzhvAr now enjoys the thiruvutharapantham that is associated with the thirunAbeekamalam.

In the third song, AzhvAr said his mind had been pulled by His navel. His navel just has the beauty and importance of being the home of Brahma. His stomach however holds everything in this universe and the ornament that surrounds it, is now pulling AzhvAr's mind to itself.

In the second and third song, the origin of Brahma, Rudra and others was explained. In the fourth song, the rejection of Ravana who had obtained boons from Brahma and Rudra is used to show their lower powers and also to show that His stomach holds them and everything else. AzhvAr is showing his amazement that the ornament that is on the outside (of His stomach) is now residing inside his mind.

He stayed with pirAtti (Sita) and iLaya perumAL (Lakshmana) at janasthAnam with the permission of the rishis dwelling there. And when the asurAs came against Him being there, He rejected them. Similarly, He said He will enter our minds with our permission and reject the impurity that dwells there. The mind is like the fortress with the ego being its lofty walls. Just as He destroyed the asurAs at janasthAnam and their chief Ravana at Lanka, so will He destroy these walls.

sathuramAmathiL
Holding everything within; has the ocean as its moat, and lofty walls built over forests and mountains.
Made of lofty walls that even the guardians of the eight directions cannot look over.
Standing as an example for all durgams (Durgaththrayam: jaladurgam, giridurgam and vanadurgam).

mAmathiL
The walls that stood even against Him.
The people who took these walls as protection and fought Him were destroyed. Vibeeshana who rejected these walls and went to Him and took His shoulders as protection lives forever.

ilangai
The place where people who hurt othere took refuge. If a person is good, then all good things would themselves come to his side. Here, the opposite is true.

ilangaikkiRaivan
Like a lion lying in its den.
Just as srIman nArAyaNA rules srI vaikuNtam, so does Ravana rule Lanka. A place that impressed even Hanuman, who had rejected all things in this world.

thalaipaththuthiravOtti
Ravana had kept our father and mother separated. He had committed such sins both against Him and His devotees using the power of the boons he had obtained. SriRama removed such a Ravana's heads like a wind removes ripe fruit from a tree.
Even after hearing His glories from Hanuman and Vibeeshana, Ravana fought against Him, lost his army, lost his first direct battle and yet without shame showed his face to his womenfolk, lost his brother and son and still came back to fight Him. perumAL decided that the only recourse left was to remove such a person's head and not wanting to have his heads keep growing back when removing them separately, took all ten out with one arrow.

OrvenkaNaiyuyththavan
As perumAL kept removing Ravana's heads they kept growing back and the dEvAs were afraid if this fight was ever going to end. perumAL then finally removed his head by using the one arrow (brahmAstharam) He had kept for that purpose, by shooting it at his heart which was the root of all his heads.

Note:
When AzhvAr said "uthiravOtti", that was about defeating Ravana and chasing him away from the battlefield; when he said "OrvenkaNaiyuyththavan" that was about destroying him with one asthra.

OthavaNNan
thiruppANAzhvAr compares Him to the ocean because He rejected Ravana, but did not destroy Lanka and handed it over to Vibeeshana.
Describing His power and beauty (veerasree) after He defeated Ravana and gave Lanka to Vibeeshana, while Brahma and other dEvAs stood worshipping Him with flowers and stOtrAs.
He is like an ocean and upon seeing Him anyone will lose their sins and lowly passions.
This also refers to periya perumAL.
With this AhvAr shows that those who stand against Him are destroyed by arrows while those who are His devotees are destroyed by His beauty.

mathuramAvaNdupAdamAmayilAda
Gave place to song and dance being without anything impure.
If some sing, then some must dance.
As vaikuNtanAthan became periya perumAL, so did the nithyasooris become bees and peacocks.
After He defeated Ravana, Brahma and other dEvAs sang His praise while the apsarAs danced.

mAmayil
If one peacock spreads its feathers, then that itself is an ornament for the garden.

arangaththammAn
He rested in arangam for us after leaving paramapatham. AzhvAr is praising His glory in doing that.

thiruvayiRRutharapantham
The ornamaent that surrounds His stomach which gave birth to everything.

ennuLLaththuLninRulAkinRathE
Pulling AzhvAr's mind from His dress, and His navel, this ornament now stands inside his heart like a proud elephant.

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