DASAKOM 23

STANZA 1

ANOTHER DAKSHA, SON OF PRACHETHAS, MARRIED ASIKNI,

AND WORSHIPPED YOU, IN ORDER TO PROPAGATE HIS FAMILY,

AND YOU APPEARED BEFORE HIM,

SHINING WITH EIGHT ARMS,

AND GAVE HIM ASIKNI AS WIFE

STANZA 2

AND HAD A HUNDRED SONS, OF WHOM,

FIRST NINE, SANAKA AND OTHERS BECAME WANDERING FRIARS,

FOLLOWING NAARADA'S ADVICE, AT WHICH, DAKSHA CURSED HIM,

WHICH THAT GREAT DEVOTEE OF YOURS CONSIDERED A BLESSING INDEED

STANZA 3

AS HE WENT ON HAVING MORE CHILDREN,

THE NEXT HUNDRED SONS BECAME BRAHMINS

BY PERFORMING SEVERE PENANCES,

AND YOU WERE BORN AS THE LAST OF THEM

STANZA 4

ONCE IN THE LONG PAST,

IN THE COUNTRY OF THE SHOORASENAS, CHITRAKETHU,

WHO GOT A SON, BY ANGIRAS'S POWERS,

WAS EXTREMELY DEPRESSED,

WHEN HE WAS MURDERRD BY HIS JEALOUS STEPMOTHERS

STANZA 5

TO HIM, CAME KINDLY ANGIRAS ALONG WITH NAARADA,

AND WHEN THEY BROUGHT AND SHOWED HIM HIS SON'S SOUL,

AND HE ASKED, "WHOSE SON AM I?"

GOT ENLIGHTENED AND BECAME FREE OF HIS DELUSION, MY LORD

STANZA 6

HE LEARNT FROM NAARADA, HYMNS AND MANTHRAS,

AND WORSHIPPING YOU, IN THE FORM OF ANANTHA,

BECAME THE KING OF VIDYAADHARAS, KUBERA'S COURT SINGERS,

AND EVEN THEN CONTINUED WORSHIPPING YOU WITH THE SAME DEVOTION AS BEFORE

STANZA 7

YOU APPEARED BEFORE HIM, IN THE FORM OF ANANTHA,

HIS HUNDRED HEADS, WHITE LIKE LOTUS STALKS,

AFTER BLESSING HIM, AND TEACHING THE TRUTH

OF EXISTENCE, DISAPPEARED

STANZA 8

HE, FOR LAKHS AND LAKHS OF YEARS,

ROAMED HAPPILY, WITH NO ATTACHMENT,

HIS GIRLS SINGING

YOUR DEVOTIONAL HYMNS, ACCOMPANYING HIM

STANZA 9

SURELY IN ORDER TO REMOVE COMPLETELY HIS ATTACHMENTS,

YOU PROMPTED HIM TO LAUGH AT LORD SHIVA,

SEATED IN THE MIDST OF GREAT SAINTS,

AND WITHOUT SHAME, HOLDING ON HIS LAP, PAARVATHY WHO CURSED HIM

STANZA 10

HE ACCEPTED THE CURSE COOLLY, WITHOUT APOLOGIES,

AND BORN AS THE DEMON, VRITHRA,

TAUGHT EVEN HIS ENEMIES, THE TRUE NATURE OF THE SELF,

AND BECAME ONE WITH YOU

STANZA 11

DITHI WORSHIPPED YOU, IN ORDER TO KILL INDRA,

AND THE MARUTHS, WHO TURNED OUT TO BE INDRA'S FRIENDS

YOUR WORSHIP, EVEN DONE WITH BAD INTENTIONS, BRINGS ONLY GOOD

MAY YOU, SUCH A STOREHOUSE OF THE GOOD, SAVE ME FROM MY VERY BAD ILLNESSES, MY LORD