DASAKOM 82

 STANZA 1

 PRADYUMNA, YOUR INCARNATION BORN AS RUKMINI'S SON,

WAS ATTACKED BY AN ASURA NAMED SHAMBARA,

 WHOM HE KILLED AND RETURNED HOME

 HIS SON ANIRUDHHA ELOPED WITH ROCHANA GRANDDAUGHTER OF RUKMI,

 AND YOU ATTENDED THE WEDDING, DURING WHICH,

BALARAMA KILLED RUKMI IN A GAMBLING DISPUTE

 STANZA 2

 THE DAUGHTER OF BAANA, A GREAT DEVOTEE OF GOD SHIVA

 WAS EMBRACED IN A DREAM BY PRADYUMNA'S ANIRUDHHA,

 NEVER SEEN AND FELL DEEPLY IN LOVE WITH HIM

 STANZA 3

 HER FRIEND CHITRALEKHA,

WELLERSED IN YOGIC LORE, AND SKILLED IN MANY ARTS,

 DREW PICTURES OF MANY YOUNG MEN,

FROM SHE RECOGNIZED ANIRUDHHA,

 AND SHE BROUGHT HIM FROM YOUR HOME BY HER POWERS

 STANZA 4

 WHEN BAANA, GOD SHIVA'S DEVOTEE,

FINDING OUT SOMEHOW THAT HE WAS HE WAS LIVING HAPPILY IN HER HOME IMPRISONED HIM,

YOU LAID SIGE TO MAAHISHMATHI, HIS CAPITAL CITY, ALONG WITH ANGRY YAADAVAS

 STANZA 5

 THEN GOD SHIVA HIMSELF, WHO WAS THE PROTECTOR OF THE CITY,

 SURROUNDED THEM WITH HIS HORDE OF FEROCIOUS CRETURES WILD,

 WHEN THE HEFTY BAANA FOUGHT WITH YUYUDHAANA, SUBRAHMANIA WITH PRADYUMNA, AND SHIVA WITH YOU

 STANZA 6

 WHEN SHIVA, ALL HIS ARROWS REPELLED, FELL INTO A FAINT,

 AND HIS ASSISTANTS, WHO IN FEAR FLED,

WERE ALL DESTROYED BY YOURS,

 SUBRAHMANIAN COCEDED DEFEAT,

 AND KUMBHAANDA WAS BURST LIKE A BALLOON

 STANZA 7

 YOU DEFEATED INDRA MANY TIMES,

AND VARUNA WHEN HE STOLE NANDA, YOUR FATHER,

YAMA, GOD OF DEATH, WHEN YOU REVIVED YOUR TEACHER'S SON,

AND FIREGOD DURING THE BURNING OF KHAANDAVA FOREST,

BRAHMA WHEN HE STOLE THE LAMBS, AND

SHIVA NOW IN THE FIGHT WITH BANA

 THIS INCARNATION OF YOURS IS GREATER THAN ANY OTHER OF YOURS, NO DOUBT

 STANZA 8

 WHEN BAANA ATTACKED WITH MANY A WEAPON,

YOU WENT ON CUTTING OFF HIS ARMS,

 GOD SHIVA UNDERSTOOD WHO YOU WERE AND LEAVING BAANA AT HIS REQUEST WITH TWO ARMS,

 BAANA PAID YOU RESPECT AND LEFT,

WHEN YOU TOO WITH YOUR FRIENDS WENT HOME

 STANZA 9

 YOU DEFEATED INDRA SEVERAL TIMES, THE SEAGOD VARUNA WHEN YOU BROUGHT YOUR TEACHER'S SON TO LIFE, THE GOD OF DEATH YAMA WHEN YOU BROUGHT YOUR FATHER FROM DEATH, THE FIREGOD IN KHAANDAVA CLEARING, BRAHMA WHEN HE STOLE THE LAMBS, NOW GOD SHIVA IN THE WAR WITH BAANA

 HAIL THIS LATEST INCARNATION OF YOURS, WHICH IS GREATER THAN ANY IN ALL THE WORLDS

 STANZA 10

 YOU GAVE MOKSHA TO KING NRIGA,

WHO BECAME A LIZARD DUE TO AN ANGRY BRAHMIN'S CURSE

 MAY YOU WHO ADISED YOUR PEOPLE UNCONDITIONAL RESPECT FOR BRAHMINS,

SAVE ME MY LORD, FROM MY ILLNESS, PLEASE

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