DASAKOM 36

STANZA 1

ONCE YOU WERE BORN AS SON OF ATRI AND ANASOOYA, DATTA,

AND AS YOU WERE TRAVELLING HAPPILY WITH YOUR WIFE,

MET YOUR GREAT DEVOTEE, THE KING OF THE HEHAYA COUNTRY,

TO WHOM YOU GAVE PROSPERITY OF THE EIGHT FAMOUS TYPES AND MORE,

AND AT THE END, DEATH AT YOUR OWN HAND

STANZA 2

TO FULFIL THE BOON YOU GAVE TO HIM,

AND TO LIGHTEN THE BURDEN OF ANTBRAHMAINIC

KINGS WHO HAD BEEN KEPT DOWN ONLY BY HIM,

YOU WERE BORN AS THE YOUNGEST SON

OF JAMADAGNI AND RENUKA, AND MADE THEM VERY HAPPY

STANZA 3

AFTER COMPLETING THE STUDY OF ALL THE VEDAS BY FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE,

YOU, ON YOUR FATHER'S ORDER TO KILL HER,

ON SUSPICION THAT HIS WIFE LOVED THE KING OF GANDHARVAS,

CUT OFF THE HEAD OF YOUR MOTHER,

AND OF YOUR BROTHERS WHO DID NOT OBEY FATHER'S ORDER,

AND WHEN PACIFIED ASKED FATHER TO BRING THEM BACK TO LIFE,

AND GOT BLESSINGS FROM HER, MY LORD

STANZA 4

AFTER YOUR FATHER,

TO PLEASE MOTHER, BROUGHT A COW FROM HEAVEN BY CHANTING HYMNS,

YOU WENT TO THE HIMALAYAS,

AND WORSHIPPING LORD SHIVA, AS ADVISED BY BHRIGU,

GOT THE AXE, MADE FRIENDS WITH THE SAGE AKRITHAVRANA,

BEFORE RETURNING HOME

STANZA 5

ONCE WHEN THE HEHAYA KING CAME, DURING HUNTING, TO THE AASHRAM,

AND YOUR FATHER WELCOMED HIM WITH GIFTS GOT FROM THE COW,

HE, WHEN BACK IN CITY, SENT, ON THE ADVICE OF ILL ADVISORS,

A MESSENGER WITH AN APPEAL TO SELL THE COW TO HIM

AND WHEN THE SAINT RESISTED,

HE WAS FOOLISHLY KILLED BY HIM, AT WHICH THE COW DESTROYED ALL THE TROOPS,

AND THE KING TOOK AWAY THE CALF TO THE CITY

STANZA 6

INDIGNANT ON WHAT YOUR FATHER, REVIVED BY SHUKRA, SAID,

YOU GOT INTO A CHARIOT, COME ON CALL, ENTERED THE CITY, CARRYING THE AXE,

WHEN THE KING REFUSED TO SURRENDER THE CALF,

DECLARED WAR ON HIM

STANZA 7

IN THE GREAT WAR THAT ENSUED,

WHEN HIS SEVEN SONS, AND A CRORE OF LEADERS, WERE KILLED BY YOUR ARROWS AXE,

AND ALL THE TROOPS FLED IN FEAR,

THE KING HIMSELF TOOK THE FIELD

STANZA 8

HE, WHO DEFEATED RAAVANA, WHEN HE WAS BATHING IN THE NARMADA,

BLOCKING ITS FLOW, SHOT AT YOU, ARROWS IN VAIN FROM HIS THOUSAND ARMS,

AND FOUND EVEN THE VAISHNAVA WHEEL POWERLESS, KNEW THAT YOU ARE GOD,

AND MEDITATING ON YOU, WAS PURIFIED,

AND SEEING IT, YOU AXED HIM,

AND AFTER HE DIED GAVE HIM THE HIGHEST PLACE,

AND WHEN HE DIED, BECAME ONE WITH YOU

STANZA 9

WHEN AGAIN YOUR FATHER WAS KILLLED BY THE KING'S SONS IN REVENGE,

AND YOU SAW MOTHER BEATING HER BREAST AGAIN AND AGAIN,

YOU MADE A TERRIBLE VOW THAT YOU WILL LEAVE NO KSHATHRIYA ALIVE ON EARTH,

AND CLIMBING IN A CHARIOT BROUGHT BY POWER OF THOUGT,

AND BY AXING AND SHOOTING THE ANTIBRAHMINS IN ALL DIRECTIONS,

MADE THE EARTH COMPLETELY WIPED OUT OF THE KSHATHRIYA CASTE

STANZA 10

AGAIN YOU REVIVED YOUR FATHER,

AND DEFEATED OTHER KINGS TWENTYONE TIMES,

AND HAVING DONE FUNERAL RITES FOR DEPARTED SPIRITS OF ANCESTORS,

IN THE BLOODRED LAKES OF SAMANTHAPANCHAKOM,

GIVE THE EARTH TO KASHYAPA AND OTHER BRAHMINS, IN A SACRIFICE,

FOUGHT WITH SAALVA, WHOM THE SANALKUMAARAS STOPPED YOU FROM KILLING, SAYING THAT KRISHNA WOULD KILL HIM, WHEN HIS TIME COMES

STANZA 11

THEN LAYING DOWN YOUR BOW AND AXE IN THE MOUNTAINS OF MAHENDRA,

YOU DID PENANCE, AND SEEING KERALAM BEING SUBMERGED BY THE SEA,

DRAGGED UP THE LAND, WHICH THE KING OF THE SEAS SURRENDERED, WHEN THREATENED BY YOUR FIRESPITTING ARROW, MY LORD