DASAKOM 75 KAMSAVADHAM
STANZA 1
ON KAMSA NERVOUSLY
SIGNALLING THE START OF DUEL,
AND INVITED KINGS SEATED,
AND AFTER NANDGOPA CAME
TO THE PALACE, YOU
AND YOUR BROTHER SUITABLY DRESSED
ENTERED THE TOURNAMENT
YARD, PROTECTED BT A HUGE ELEPHANT IN RUT
STANZA 2
CAUGHT BY THE ELEPHANT
WHO PRODDED BY THE MAHOUT'S WORDS,
JUMPED TOWARDS YOU
AT A GREAT SPEED AND MAKING A BIG NOISE,
YOU, EVADED IT, AND
HID UNDER ITS LEGS WHICH WERE HUGE LIKE PILLARS,
AND YOU CAME OUT SMILING,
HIT WITH FORCE ON ITS CHEEKS RIVALLING THE BREASTS OF THE FARMYARD GIRLS
STANZA 3
YOU PLAYED WITH THE
ELEPHANT FOR A LONG TIME
WHICH FOUND YOU WITHIN REACH OF HIS TRUNK,
BUT NEVER WITHIN GRASP,
AND KNOCKING IT DOWN,
PULLED OUT ITS TEETH FROM ITS LIVING BODY, GAVE THE PEARLS
TO YOUR FRIEND,
SAYING “MAKE A NECKLACE
OUT OF THESE, AND GIVE TO MY RADHA, PLEASE
STANZA 4
WHEN YOU AND YOUR BROTHER
ENTERED CARRYING ON YOUR SHOULDERS THE BONES,
PEOPLE, ATTRACTED BY
YOUR HANDSOME FACE, EXCLAIMED, " HA LUCKY IS NANDA,
NO IT IS GOPAS WHO
ARE LUCKY OR WE ARE ALSO LUCKIY TO HAVE BEEN ABLE
TO SEE YOU THROUGH
OUR VERY EYES NOW
STANZA 5
YOU LIVED IN THE MIDST
OF PEOPLE FOR A LONG TIME UNRECOGNIZED,
NOW THAT THE PROPER
TIME IS COME, FREE FROM ALL SINS,
AND FULL OF JOY, PRAISED
YOU,
AS THEY REMEMBERED
ALL THAT YOU HAVE DONE
STANZA 6
CHANOORA THE EXPERT
DUELLIST, AND MUSHTIKA WITH THE FORCEFUL FISTS,
MOVED INTO THE ARENA,
AND ATTACKED YOU TWO WITH STRONG POWERFUL BLOWS!
AND THERE WAS NO DEARTH
OF THE SORTS YOU ALL DISPLAYED, LEAPING UP AND DOWN, KNOCKING DOWN, AND OTHERS,
ONLY STRANGE THING
WAS THAT THE GREAT DUELIST UNDERWENT MANY A CLOSE GRIP AND MANY A GETTING FREE (BANDHA
AND MOKSHA)
STANZA 7
WHILE PEOPLE SAID,
“ALAS, ALAS, VERY SLIM AND HANDSOME ARE THESE BOYS,
THE DUELLISTS VERY
HEFTY AND STRONG WE DONT WANT
TO SEE, RATHER WE WOULD
GO ", YOU WHIRLED CHANOORA ROUND AND ROUND
UNLIL HE LOST HIS LIFE
AND YOU TRAMPLED HIM, AS YOUR BROTHER KNOCKED MALLOORA DOWN WITH A POWERFUL KNOCK
STANZA 8
SEEING WHICH, AND INDIGNANT
AT HIS BAD WORDS,
YOU LEAPED ON TO THE
THRONE, AND SEVERED HIS HEAD
WHEN KAMSA STILL NOT
KNOWING STOPPED DRUM, AND l GAVE ORDER
TO KILL OFF YOUR PARENTS
AND EXILE YOU,
STANZA 9
YOU FELL ON TOP OF
HIM AND THREW HIM ON THE GROUND WITH
BROKEN BONES,
TRAMPLING ON HIM, DREW
YOUR SWORD, SEPARATING HIS HEAD FROM HIS TRUNK,
AS THE DEVAS THREW
FLOWERS ON YOUR HEAD PRAISING YOU,
WHAT SHALL I SAY, CONSTANTLY
THINKING OF YOU HE ATTAINED UNITY WITH YOU
THIS WAS KAALANEMI'S
INHERITED WISH FROM PAST BIRTH
STANZA 10
ONCE HIS SERVANTS WERE
EITHER KILLED OR ARE RUN AWAY,
YOU PROSTRATED BEFORE
UGRASENA AND HIS KINGDOM,
HE RELEASED YOUR PARENTS,
AND GAVE WHATEVER THEY WANTED TO YOUR FAMILY,
GOT UDDHAVA WHO HAD
LEARNT DIPLOMACY FROM THE DEVAS' GURU, AND YOUR GREATEST DEVOTEE AS FRIEND,
PLEASE SAVE ME FROM
ME, MY LORD
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