DASAKOM 62

 STANZA 1

 ONCE YOU WENT TO THE FOREST

 INTENDING TO BLESS THE BRAHMINS' WIVES

 WHO HAD BEEN LONG WAITING FOR

 A CHANCE TO SEE YOU AT LEAST ONCE

 STANZA 2

STANZA 3

STANZA 4

 

 STANZA 5

 WHEN YO U HAD GONE FAR AWAY,

 AND SAW T HAT ALL ANRE HIRSTY, AND THIRSTY,

 YOU SENT SOME TO THE BRAHMINS

 PERFORMING SACRIFICES

 STANZA 6

 WHEY THEY ASKED

 IN YOUR NAME FOR FOOD,

 THESE GREAT SAGES, THOUGH STRONG OF HEARING,

 PRETENDED NOT TO HEAR,

 

 (HERE SHRUTHI MEANS SCIPTURES, AS AGAIST SMRITHI SMMRITH MEANS REMEMBER MEANS REMEMBERED, SHRUTHI HEARD, HANDED DOWN THROUGH WORDS TRADITIONAL)

 STANZA 7

 ONE GIRL WHO HAD BEEN WAITING LONG

 TO SEE YOU, WAS LEAVING,

 WAS STOPPED BY HER HUSBAND LAYING HIS HAND

 ON HER, SHE DIED IN FRUSTRATION LUCKY INDEED WAS SHE!

 STANZA 8

 YOU, SEEING ALL GETTING

 HUNGRY AND THIRSTY, TOLD THE M

 TO GO TO THEIR WIVES,

 WHO, HE SAID, WILL GIVE SOMETHING IN PITY

 STANZA 9

 THOSE WHO WENT, SAW YOU

 STANDING CROSSLEGGED, THE SWANTAIL FEATHER SWAYING IN THE HAIR,

 EARRINGS SHINING ON THE CHEEKS,

 FEET TAPPING TIP TAP ON THE SHADY FIRM SMOOTH GROUND

 STANZA 10

 UNDERSTANDING IT WAS THEIR FAULT

 AND THE WIVES BLAMELESS

 THEY BECAME PENITENT,

 AND LEFT PRAISING YOU