DASAKOM 34

STANZA 1

WHEN THE DEVAS APPEALED TO YOU TO KILL RAAVANA,

AND RISHYASHRINGA PERFORMED THE YAAGAM CALLED PUTHREEYAM,

AND GAVE PAAYASAM TO DASARATHA, HIS WIVES WHO ATE IT GOT PREGNANT,

YOU WERE BORN AS RAAMA,

ALONG WITH LAKSHMANA, SHATRUGHNA AND BHARATHA, AS THEIR SONS

STANZA 2

AT DASARATHA'S WORD,

YOU ALONG WITH LAKSHMANA, FOLLOWED VISHWAAMITRA,

CARRYING BOW AND ARROWS, TO PROTECT HIS SACRIFICE,

FEELING NO HUNGER OR THIRST,

WITH THE POWER OF MANTHRAS GIVEN BY HIM,

KILLING THAATAKA,

IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ADVICE OF THE SAGE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE WORLD,

REACHED THE PLACE OF THE SACRIFICE CALLED SIDHHAASHRAM, IN THE END

STANZA 3

YOU, STANDING IN FRONT OF THE AASHRAMAM,

DROVE AWAY MAAREECHA, AND KILLED THE OTHERS, FREED AHALYA,

AND COMING TO VIDEHA,

BREAKING LORD SHIVA'S BOW AND MARRYING SEETHA,

WHO WAS GODDESS LAKSHMI HERSELF,

AND WHO COULD BE WON ONLY BY THE BRAVE,

STARTED TO RETURN HOME, ALONG WITH YOUR BROTHERS WHO TOO WERE MARRIED AT THAT SAME TIME

STANZA 4

WHEN PARASHURAAMA, WHO ANGRILY STOPPED YOUR WAY,

LEFT AFTER TRANSFERRING HIS POWERS TO YOU,

AND YOU LIVED IN AYODHYA HAPPILY WITH YOUR WIFE AND YOUR FATHER,

WHEN SHATRUGHNA WAS AWAY IN HIS UNCLE'S HOUSE,

KAIKEYI PUT A STOP TO YOUR FATHER'S ATTEMPT TO CROWN YOU AS KING

STANZA 5

WHEN AFTER STOPPING THE PEOPLE WHO FOLLOWED YOU,

YOU WENT WITH ONLY YOUR BOW,

AND TIEING YOUR HAIR IN A KNOT,

AND WEARING THE BEARKSKIN CLOTH,

AND, CROSSING THE GANGES,

MET ON THE WAY, BHARADWAAJA,

AT WHOSE ADVICE, YOU LIVED IN THE CHITRAKOOTA MOUNTAINS HAPPILY

STANZA 6

HEARING FROM BHARATHA YOUR FATHER'S DEATH,

YOU DID THE FUNERAL RITES IN YAMUNA,

PAID YOUR RESPECTS TO ATRI,

AND WENT INTO THE DENSE DANDAKA FOREST,

WHERE YOU KILLED THE HORRID HUGE DEMON VIRAADHA,

AND MADE SHAARABHANGI HAPPY, MY LORD

STANZA 7

LATER YOU MET AGASTHYA,

TO WHOM YOU PROMISED THE ERADICATION OF RAAKSHASAS,

AND FROM HIM RECEIVED MANY DIVINE WEAPONS INCLUDING THE BRAHMAASTHRAM,

MET YOUR FATHER'S FRIEND, THE EAGLE, JATAAYU,

AND SETTLED DOWN IN PANCHAVATI ON THE GODAAVARI RIVER BANK

STANZA 8

THERE ONE DAY, A RAAKSHASI CALLED SHOORPANAKHA,

WHO CAME TO YOU SEXMAD, AND WHEN SHE PESTERED YOU,

YOU SENT HER TO LAKSHMANA, WHO ANGRILY CUT OFF HER NOSE,

AND WHEN THE RAAKSHASA, KHARA,

WHO SAW HER AND COULD NOT STAND THE SIGHT,

ATTACKED YOU ALONG WI TH DOODHANA, THRIMOORDHA

AND A HUNDRED THOUSAND TROOPS,

ALL OF WHOM YOU KILLED EFFORTLESSLY, MY LORD

STANZA 9

THEN SHE WENT TO HER BROTHER, RAAVANA,

WHO WAS VERY UPSET ON HEARING HER PLEADINGS,

AND SENT HIS UNCLE MAREECHA,

TO GO THERE IN THE FORM OF DEER, DESIRED BY HER,

WHEN YOU WENT TO CATCH HIM, RAAVANA STOLE SEETHA

WHEN, THOUGH SORRY FOR HER,

WAS HAPPY THAT THIS GAVE YOU A REASON FOR KILLING HIM

STANZA 10

WHEN YOU, SEARCHING,

MET JATAAYU, WHO DIED SAYING, “RAAVANA KILLED ME AND STOLE”,

YOU DID HIS FUNERAL RITES, KILLED THE DEMON WHO TRIED TO CAPTURE YOU,

MET SHABARI ON THE BANK OF PAMPA,

WHERE YOU JOINED HANUMAN, MY LORD