DASAKOM 20

STANZA 1

WHILE NAABHI, SON OF KING AAGNEEDHRA, PRIYAVRATHA'S SON,

IN THE MIDDLE OF A SACRIFICE,

PERFORMED AS PART OF YOUR WORSHIP,

SAW YOU, WHO GIVES TO DEVOTEES, ALL THEY WANT

STANZA 2

REQUESTED BY THE SAINTS TO GIVE THE KING A SON,

EQUAL TO HIM IN VALOUR, SO THAT THE COUNTRY WILL HAVE CONTIUED PROTECTION,

YOU SAID, "I WILL MYSELF BE BORN AS HIS SON"

AND DISAPPEARED IN THE FIRE

STANZA 3

FROM NAABHI AND HIS WIFE, MERUDEVI WAS BORN

RISHABHA, PART INCARNATION OF YOURS,

MAKING ALL HAPPY WITH

THE EXTRAORDINARILY BEAUTIFUL BODY OF HIS

STANZA 4

LAYING THE BURDEN OF RULING HIS KINGDOM ON YOU,

WHO CARRIES THE BURDEN OF ALL THREE WORLDS,

WENT TO THE HERMITAGE, AND IN TIME,

ATTAINED THE BLISSFUL WORLD OF YOURS

STANZA 5

WHEN INDRA, RESENTING THE PROSPERITY OF YOUR LAND,

WITHHELD RAIN, YOU, BY YOUR SUPERHUMAN POWERS,

BROUGHT RAIN,

AND MADE HIS KINGDOM, AJANAABHAVARSHAM

A LAND OF GOOD RAIN (VARSHAM)

STANZA 6

YOU MARRIED JAYANTHI, GIVEN BY THE DEFEATED INDRA,

AND, THOUGH INTERESTED ONLY IN SPIRITUAL MATTERS,

ENJOYED LIFE WITH HER, AND A HUNDRED SONS,

OF THE ELDEST WAS BHARATHA

STANZA 7

OF THEM, NINE BECAME GREAT YOGIS,

NINE BECAME LORDS OF THE NINE CORNERS OF THE EARTH

AND NINETYNINE AND ONE BECAME BRAHMINS,

BY THE POWER OF THE PENANCES THEY DID

STANZA 8

AFTER TEACHING HIS SONS, IN THE MIDST OF SAGES,

THE WAY OF LIBERATION THROUGH DETACHMENT ACCOMPNIED BY DEVOTION,

HE HIMSELF BECAME PARAMAHAMSA, ONE BEYOND ATTACHMENTS,

AND LIVED AS A SEEMINGLY SENSELESS IDIOT, MADMAN AND DEVIL

STANZA 9

THOUGH WITHOUT ATTACHMENTS,

HE ROAMED THE LAND PREACHING PHILOSOPHY

RIDICULED BY ALL WHO HEARD,

AND WENT TO THE FOREST,

PERFORMED PENANCES, AND BECAME ONE WITH YOU

STANZA 10

AFTER LIVING LONG, AS A PYTHON, CROW, OR BEAST,

YOU BURNT YOURSELF TO DEATH,

IN A FOREST-FIRE OF THE MOUNTAINS OF COORG

MY LORD, REMOVE MY SUFFERINGS, PLEASE