DASAKOM 12

STANZA 1

MANU, SON OF THE FIRST SELFBORN CREATOR OF AN EARLIER AEON,

WHO WAS PREOCCUPIED WITH MAKING MORE MEN,

ONE DAY SAW THE EARTH SINKING IN THE SEA,

AND ALONG WITH SAINTS, WENT TO SATHYALOKAM

TO SEE BRAHMA, WHO WORSHIPPED YOU ALWAYS IN HIS MIND

STANZA 2

MANU TOLD BRAHMA, “WHILE I WAS CREATING MEN,

THE EARTH SANK IN WATER PLEASE GIVE A PLACE TO THEM”

AND BRAHMA, SAT PRAYING TO YOU, FOR SOME TIME

STANZA 3

WHEN HE WAS THUS ASKING YOU TO HELP HIM,

YOU CAME OUT OF HIS NOSTRIL, AS A BABY PIG,

WHILE HE WAS SAYING,

“ONCE I DRANK WATER, AGAIN IT SINKS,

WHAT SHALL I DO NOW? "

STANZA 4

MANU WAS SURPRISED BEYOND LIMIT,

AND WENT HOME WITH HIS SONS,

AFTER IT CAME OUT AND GREW

IN A MINUTE, ELEPHANTSIZE

STANZA 5

AS MANU WAS WONDERING,

“WHO IS THIS IN THE FORM OF A PIG OF SUCH GREAT SIZE?

CAN IT BE VISHNU'S MAAYA? ",

SUDDENLY IT BECAME MOUNTAINSIZE AND ROARED LOUDLY

STANZA 6

HEARING THE LOUD ROAR,

THE SAGES, ASSEMLED IN THE SKY, CHEERED,

AND EXHILERATED, IT ROARED MORE LOUDLY,

AND DIVED DEEP INTO THE SEA

STANZA 7

IT ENTERED THE WATER,

ITS SMOKEBROWN HAIR STANDING UP,

TAIL RAISED UP, SNOUT LOWERED, AND

WITH A VERY LOUD SPLASH PARTING THE WATER IN TWO,

PLEASING, WITH ITS REVOLVING EYEBALLS, ALL WHO SAW

STANZA 8

THE BOAR ENTERED THE WATERS, SWIRLING

WITH THE RAPID MOVEMENTS OF CROCODILES AND WHALES,

BELOW THE MUDDY WAVES, YOU SEARCHED FOR THE EARTH,

MAKING THE NETHERLAND QUIVER AS IN AN EARTHQUAKE SHOCK

STANZA 9

YOU, UNDER THE GUISE OF A WILD BOAR,

SAW THE EARTH KEPT BY THE DEMON IN THE NETHERLAND,

UNDER THE SEA AND,

RESISTING THOSE WHO TRIED TO PREVENT,

TOOK HER ON THE MUZZLE OF THE BOAR, MY LORD

STANZA 10

CARRYING THE EARTH, AS IF IT WERE

A SMALL NUT ON HIS PROBOSCIS,

YOU, WHO CAME UP UNDER THE GUISE OF A WILD BOAR,

PLEASE RAISE FROM THE MIRE OF DISEASES, PLEASE