DASAKOM 30

STANZA 1

BALI, KILLED BY INDRA REVIVED BY SHUKRA,

THE PRECEPTOR OF ASURAS,

BECAME VERY STRONG, BY PERFORMING SACRIFICES,

AND NOT AFRAID OF EVEN YOUR SUDARSHANA CHAKRA, AND OTHER WEAPONS,

CONQUERD THE HEAVEN,

AND RULED THE COUNTRY GENEROUSLY GIVING TO ALL WHATEVER THEY ASKED FOR

STANZA 2

ADITHI, THE MOTHER OF THE DEVAS, SEEING THE CONDITION OF HER SONS,

PLEADED WITH HER HUSBAND, KAASHYAPA,

TO HELP RESTORE THEM THEIR ANCESTRAL LAND,

AND WAS ADVISED BY HIM TO PERFORM THE PENANCE, PAYOVRATHAM,

WHICH SHE DID WITH GREAT DEVOTION, FOR TWELVE DAYS

STANZA 3

AT THE END OF IT, AT BRAHMA' REQUEST,

YOU YOURSELF APPEARED BEFORE HER,

AS SHE SAT MEDITATING ON YOU,

DARK IN COLOUR, AND FOUR-ARMED,

AND SAID "I SHALL BE BORN AS YOUR SON,

BUT DONT TELL ANYBODY THAT EVER YOU SAW ME”

STANZA 4

THEN YOU ENTERED KAASHYAP'S BODY,

WHEN HE WAS DOING TAPAS,

AND ENTRED ADITHI'S WOMB,

AND FROM HER WAS BORN

YOU, WITH THE MARKS OF MAHAAVISHNU

CLEARLY SEEN ON YOU

STANZA 5

WHILE THE DEVAS JOYFULLY BEAT THE DRUMS,

AND SHOWERED FLOWERS ON THE HOLY PLACE,

YOU CHANGED INTO THE FORM

OF A SMART LITTLE BOY

STANZA 6

IMMEDIATELY BRAHMA AND OTHERS BROUGHT THE STRAW WAISTBAND,

THE SACRED THREAD, THE PALMTREE STICK,

DEERSKIN CLOTH, AND ROSARY CHAIN,

YOU, BODY GLOWING WITH BRIGHT RAYS OF HOLINESS EMITTED BY YOUR BRAHMIN BODY

WENT TO WHERE MAHAABALI WAS PERFORMING THE SACRIFICE

STANZA 7

SHAKING THE EARTH BY THE WEIGHT OF BODY,

PRESAGING THE FUTURE ALL PERVADING SIZE OF YOURS,

HOLDING THE STICK, AS IF TO BEAT OFF ASURAS,

AND UMBRELLA TO WARD OFF THE FORCE OF YOUR FOES,

STANZA 8

WHEN YOU REACHED THE ASHWAMEDHA SACRIFICE HALL,

SHUKRA AND OTHERS, ON SEEING YOU,

BLINDED BY THE LIGHT, COMING FROM YOUR BODY,

DOUBTED WHETHER IT WAS THE SUN,

FIRE, OR SANALKUMARAN, THE GREAT YOGI THAT CAME THERE

STANZA 9

THE PRIESTS TOOK YOU TO THE ASURA, WHO WELCOMED YOU WITH GREAT JOY,

WASHED YOUR FEET, AND SPRINKLED THE WATER ON HIS HEAD,

FEELING THAT HE WAS LUCKY TO HAVE

THE SACRED WATER FROM YOUR FEET, ON HIS HEAD

STANZA 10

WAS IT BECAUSE OF HIS BIRTH IN PRAHLAADA'S LINE,

OR THE RESULT OF THE SACRIFICES, PERFORMED BY HIM,

THAT ENZABLED HIM TO HAVE ON HIS HEAD

THE WATER THAT WAS RESPECTED BY GOD SHIVA AND OTHERS