DASAKOM 17

STANZA 1

KING UTHHAANAPAADA, SON OF MANU, HAD TWO WIVES

OF WHOM SURUCHI WAS HIS

FAVOURITE WIFE,

AND THE OTHER, SUNEETHI, WHO WAS IGNORED,

FOUND REFUGE IN YOU ALONE, HAVING NO OTHER HELP

STANZA 2

ONCE WHEN SUNEETHI'S। SON, DHRUVA,

SEEING UTHHAMA, SURUCHI'S SON,

ON FATHER'S LAP, AND TRIED TO CLIMB,

SURUCHI SCOLDED THE BOY ANGRILY

STANZA 3

AS THE INFATUATED FATHER SAT SILENT,

REELING UNDER THIS REBUFF, THE POOR BOY

RAN TO HIS MOTHER, WHO TOLD HIM THAT ONLY YOU

ARE CAPABLE OF SAVING THE SUFFERING FROM FATE TO ESCAPE FROM ONE'S FATE

STANZA 4

THEN THE PROUD FIVE YEAR OLD BOY,

DETERMINED TO WORSHIP YOU,

LEAVING HOME WENT TO THE FOREST, AND ON THE WAY,

MET NAARADA, FROM WHOM HE LEARNT THE MANTHRA WAY OF WORSHIP,

AND WENT INSIDE A FOREST CALLED MADHUKAANANAM, TO DO PENANCE

STANZA 5

NAARADA, WHO HAD COME TO THE CITY,

VISITED DHRUVA'S FATHER, AND TOLD HIM EVERYTHING ABOUT HIS SON,

WHILE DHRUVA CONTINUED FOR FIVE YEARS THE PENANCE,

ITS SEVERITY GROWING HARDER AND HARDER EVERY MONTH

STANZA 6

WHEN THE WORLD FELT STIFLED BY HIS HARD PENEANCE,

YOU, REQUESTED BY DEVAS, APPEARED

SEATED ON GARUDA, IN FRONT OF HIM,

WHO WAS ABSORBED IN THE JOY OF MEDITATING ON YOUR FORM

STANZA 7

YOU CAME NEAR, AND LOVINGLY TOUCHED HIM WITH YOUR CONCH,

WHEN HE PRAISED YOU,

HIS EYES WELLING WITH WAVES OF JOY,

AT THE SIGHT OF YOUR BEAUTIFUL FORM

STANZA 8

YOU, UNDERSTANDING HIS INTENT,

TOLD HIM, AS HE BOWED BEFORE YOU,

“AFTER YOU RULE YOUR SUBJECTS FOR A LONG TIME,

COME AND OCCUPY THE IMMORTAL PLACE THAT WOULD BE CALLED DHRUVA'S ABODE”

STANZA 9

HE, HEARING YOUR WORDS, WENT TO THE CITY, WELCOMED BY ALL PEOPLE,

AND WHEN HIS FATHER RETIRED TO THE FOREST,

RULED THE COUNTRY, HAPPY THAT HE HAD YOUR BLESSING, MY LORD

STANZA 10

WHEN UTHHAMA WAS KILLLED BY A YAKSHA,

HE, BENT ON FIGHTING WITH ALL YAKSHAS,

DESISTED, WHEN KUBERA INTERVENED,

AND FROM A PLEASED KUBERA,

ASKED ONLY CONTINUED DEVOTION TO YOU