DASAKOM 42

STANZA 1

ONCE ON YOUR BIRTHDAY, YASHODA

INVITED MANY BRAHMINS AND RELATIONS,

AND WIAS BUSY SUPERVISING

THE KITCHEN WORK,

LEAVING YOU NEAR THE KITCHEN HALL

STANZA 2

SUDDENLY WAS HEARD THE NOISE

OF WOOD SPLITTING INTO PIECES,

MIXED WITH THE FRIGHTENED CRY

OF BOYS LEFT BY HER TO PROTECT YOU

STANZA 3

THEN THE SCARED WOMEN CAME RUNNING,

BREASTS QUIVERING FROM THE EFFORT

AND SAW YOU COVERED BY A

HEAP OF DEAD WOODEN PIECES SMALL

STANZA 4

NANDA AND THE BRAHMINS RUSHED FAST,

AND HEAVED A SIGH OF RELIEF

WITH TEARS BRIMMING IN THEIR EYES

ON SEEING YOU IN YASHODA'S HAND

STANZA 5

THEY WONDERED AND STOOD FOR A LONG TIME,

WITH FINGERS ON THEIR NOSES EXCLAIMING

“WONDER THE CART IS BROKEN

WITHOUT ANY CLUE TO WHY OR HOW! "

STANZA 6

THE BOYS SAID, " WHEN THE CHILD

CRIED FOR MILK SHAKING HIS LEGS, AND

THEY HIT THE CART

AND I SAW IT, I SAW”

STANZA 7

THE ELDERS NOT AWARE OF YOUR POWER, DISMISSED IT, SAYING,

“THE BOYS IN THEIR CONFUSED STATE, ARE TALKING NONSENSE

AND WHO WILL BELIEVE WHAT THEY SAY? "

BUT, HAD SOME DOUBTS TOO WHEN THEY REMEMBERED POOTHANA

STANZA 8

THE WOMENFOLK, THEIR HEART MELTING IN PITY,

GENTLY FELT YOUR BODY, SAYING

“IS THE TENDER SOFT FOOT CUT?

ARE THE LOTUSLIKE PINK HANDS WOUNDED?

STANZA 9

VASUDEVA HELD YOU CLOSE TO HIS CHEST

SAYING, “PLEASE GIVE ME MY SON, SAVED BY GOD'S GRACE"

AND HUGGED YOU AGAIN AND AGAIN,

BODY COVERED BY PIMPLES OF JOY

STANZA 10

IT WAS AN ASURA, WHO HAD COME TO KILL YOU

AND EVEN HIS DUST (RAJAS IN SANSKRIT) COULD NOT BE SEEN,

ANY WONDER THEN? SINCE HIS MIND WAS CLEARED

OF EGOISTIC PRIDE (ALSO RAJAS, RAJOGUNA) COMPLETELY

STANZA 11

YOU RETURNED HOME WITH SPEICIAL BLESSINGS

OF BRAHMINS SHOWERED ON YOU,

AND CHARMED ALL THERE

I PRAY SAVE ME FROM MY ILLNESS, PLEASE

END DASAKOM 42