DASAKOM 81

 

 STANZA 1

 WHILE STAYING IN HASTHINAPUR FONDLING SATHYBAMA,

YOU, HEARING OF THE WEDDING OF DRAUPADI,

 WENT THERE, ALONG WITH SATHYABHAMA,

STAYED WITH THE PANDAVAS AT THEIR REQUEST FOR A FEW DAYS,

 AND BUILT AND GAVE INDRAPRASTHHA TO THEM DURING YOUR STAY THERE

 STANZA 2

 ARJUNA, IN THE GUISE OF A SAINT, ELOPED WITH YOUR SISTER SUBHADRA,

 AND WHEN BALARAMA CAME INDIGNANT AT THE DECEIT,

 YOU PACIFIED HIM, AND HAPPILY WENT TO INDRAPRASTHA, ALONG WITH HIM

 STANZA 3

 ONCE YOU, WHILE BATHING IN YAMUNA, MET A GIRL NAMED KAALEENDI,

WHO WAS IN LOVE WITH YOU,

 AND ACCEPTING HER, RETURNED TO INDRAPRASTHAM,

 WHERE YOU GAVE THE KHANDAVA FOREST TO FIRE

 THERE YOU TOOK AWAY MITHRAVINDA, WHO,

THOUGH SHE WANTED TO MARRY YOU,

WAS AFRAID OF HER BROTHER,

AND ALSO WAS YOUR FATHER'S NIECE

 STANZA 4

 ASSUMING SEVEN BODIES,

YOU TIED SEVEN BULLS IN A MINUTE,

 AND HER BROTHERS GAVE YOU THEIR SISTER BHADRA

 SHE ALSO IS YOUR FATHER'S NIECE

 STANZA 5

 NEXT YOU WON LAKSHANA, DAUGHTER OF THE MADRA KING,

 BY HITTING A FISH REFLECTED IN WATER,

 WHICH EVEN THE PANDAVAS COULD NOT DO,

 WHEN YOU HEARD THE DEPRADATIONS COMMITTED BY NARAKA,

THE UNDERGROUND DEMON

 STANZA 6

 YOU IMMEDIATELY CALLED GARUDA AND SITTING ON HIM WENT TO THE CITY PRAGJYOTHISHAM,

 HOLDING SATHYABHAMA IN YOUR LAP, FOUGHT A BLODY WAR,

 IN WHICH YOU CONVERTED THE CITY

 OF PRAGJYOTHISHAPURAM INTOSHONITHAPURAM

(SHYONITTHAM MEANS BLOOD)

 STANZA 7

 THEN AROSE THE FIVEHEADED DEMON MURA FROM A FOREST IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SEA,

 YOU CHOPPED OFF HIS HEAD WITH YOUR CHAKRAM,

 AND MADE NARAKA WHO CAME TO HELP ENTER THE GATES OF NARAKOM, (MEANING HELL)

 STANZA 8

 WORSHIPPED BY THE EARTHGODDESS, YOU GAVE TO BHAGADATHHA MURA'S SON

 THE KINGDOM AND ONE ELEPHANT, YOU RETURNED TAKING WITH YOU ALL THE OTHER ELEPHANTS AND PLENTY OF WEALTH

 FREEING SIXTEENTHOSAND GIRLS CAPTURED ALONG WITH THEIR JEWELRY

 STANZA 9

 YOU AND SATHYABHAMA WENT TO THE HEAVEN, IN ORDER TO RETURN THE EARRING TO DEVENDRA,

 AND WERE RECEIVED BY SHUKRA, INDRA'S FAMILY PRIEST AND ADVISOR

 BUT WHEN YOU PLUCKED A PAARIJAATHA FLOWER FROM HEAVEN'S GARDEN,

 TO SHOW THAT HE WAS NOT WITH NO DEFECT AT ALL

 STANZA 10

 YOU PLANTED THE PAARIJAATHAM IN SATHYABHAMA'S GARDEN,

 AND THEN BUILT HOUSES FOR EACH OF THE SIXTEENTHOUSAND GIRLS,

 AND ASSUMING AS MANY SHAPES, STAYED IN THEM,

 AND TO NAARADA'S SURPRIZE, HAD TEN SONS IN EACH OF THEM, MY LORD