DASAKOM 77

 STANZA 1

 YOU WITH UDDHAVA WENT TO THE HOUSE

 OF THE FLOWERGIRL, DREAMING OF YOUR ARRIVAL

 EVERY DAY AND KEEPING HER SPACIOUS HOUSE

 TRIM AND NEAT FOR THE OCCASION ALL THE TIME

 STANZA 2

 YOU IN SECRET FULFILLED HER WISH,

 AS SHE WITH GREAT LOVE

 ATTENDED TO YOU HURRIEDLY,

 AND RESPECTFULLY WITH QUIVERING BREASTS

 STANZA 3

 WHEN ASKED BY YOU WHAT OTHER WISH SHE HAS,

 SHE POOR WOMAN CHOSE MORE EROTIC PLAY AT NIGHT

 THE WISE CAN BE EXPEPCTED TO ASK FOR UNION WITH YOU,

 WHY DID SHE NOT REQUEST YOUR CONSTANT COMPANY AT LEAST!

 STANZA 4

 YOU WENT TO HER A FEW DAYS IN SECRET,

AND SHE GOT A SON NAMED UPASHLOKA,

 WHO BECAME AN ARDENT VISHNU DEVOTEE OF THE SAATHVATHA GROUP

 UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF NARADA, THE GREAT WISE SAGE

 STANZA 5

 THEN YOU VISITED AKROORA'S HOUSE,

 WAS RECEIVED AND GLADLY WORSHIPPED BY HIM

 WHEN YOU RETURNED HOME, YOU LEARNT ABOUT DHRITHARASHTRA'S ACTIONS

 AND THE EXILE OF PANDAVAS FROM THE STATE

 STANZA 6

 THEN KAMSA'S FRIEND AND FATHER-IN-LAW JARAASANDHHA

 ANGRILY ATTACKED MATHHURA

 WITH A LARGE ARMY OF SIXTYFOUR BATTALLIONS HUGE,

 AND YOU DESTROYED THEM SIXTEEN TIMES

 STANZA 7

 YOU LEFT HIM FREE, THOUGH CAPTURED BY YOUR STRONG BROTHER BALARAMA

 IT MUST HAVE BEEN SURELY BECAUSE OF THE FUN OF FIGHT

 BETWEEN TWO WITH EQUAL SKILLS,

 WHO WAS MORE POWERFUL AT THAT TIME THAN HE?

 STANZA 8

 THOUGH EAGER TO FIGHT,

 HE WAS DEFEATED,

 BUT PROMPTED BY OTHER KINGS, FOUGHT

 91,300 ROUNDS, AND EVERY TIME, WAS

 REPELLED BY YOU AND KILLED

 STANZA 9

 WHEN IN THE EIGHTEENTH ENCOUNTER,

YOU SAW THREE CRORE FOREIGN MERCENARIES WITH HIM

YOU GOT BUILT A CITY BY THE HEAVEN'S ARCHITECT

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SEA,

AND AIRLIFTED THE POPULATION BY YOUR SUPERNATURAL POWERS

 STANZA 10

 YOU RAN ON FOOT AS IF AFRAID, WEARING A GARLAND OF LOTUS FLOWERS

 FOLLOWED BY THE FOREIGN ARMY COMMANDER WHO WAS NOT FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO DIE AT YOUR HAND,

 AND SO YOU HID IN A CAVE WHEN HE WHO FOLLOWED YOU WAS BURNT TO ASHES,

AS WOKE AND CAST HIS FIRST LOOK ON HIM AND THEN YOU APPEARED IN YOUR BEAUTIFUL FORM

 STANZA 11

 YOU WERE PLEASED WHEN HE SAID, “I AM A KING OF THE LUNAR LINEAGE

 AND I HAVE NO INTEREST IN WORLDLY PLEASURES I WANT ONLY YOUR LOVE”

 YOU GAVE HIM BHAKTHI AND MUKTHI BOTH, HOWEVER ADVISING

 FOR PEOPLE NOT TO BE MISLED, TO DO PENANCE FOR MURDER EVEN WHEN NOT NTENDED

 STANZA 12

 RETURNING TO MATHURA, YOU DESTROYED THE ARMY COLLECTED BY THE ENEMY, AND

 AND WHEN AS USUAL STOPPED BY JARAASANDHHA AND HIS MEN,

 TO GIVE SOME CONSOLATION OF FINAL VICTORY TO HIM AT LAST,

 YOU FLED TO THE ISLAND CITY FOR REFUGE