DASAKOM 29

STANZA 1

WHEN THE ASURAS SNATCHED THE NECTAR FROM YOU, AS YOU CAME UP,

AND THE DEVAS STOOD COMPLETELY HELPLESS,

YOU CONSOLED THEM, IMMEDIATELY DISAPPEARED,

AND MADE THE ASURAS QUARELL AMONG THEMSELVES

STANZA 2

THEN YOU ASSUMED A FORM,

DARK IN COLOUR, AND YOUNG IN AGE,

THEY LEFT THE FIGHT FOR THE NECTAR POT

AND BEGAN FIGHTING FOR YOUR BREAST MILK POT

STANZA 3

WHEN THEY ASKED YOU TO DISTRIBUTE

NECTAR EQUALLY AMONG THEM,

BY SAYING, "HOW CAN YOU TRUST ME? I AM A PROSTITUTE”

YOU MULTIPLIED THEIR TRUST IN YOU

STANZA 4

WHEN THEY HAPPILY GAVE THE POT, YOU IN THAT GUISE,

ASKED THEM TO SIT BLINDFOLD IN SEPARATE ROWS,

SAYING "PLEASE FORGIVE MY BAD HABITS"

BEGAN DISTRIBUTING THE NECTAR AMONG THEM

STANZA 5

WHEN THE ASURAS SAT QUIUIETLY, ASSURED THAT "SHE SURELY IS IN LOVE WITH US"

YOU GAVE THE NECTAR TO ALL DEVAS,

AND, IN YOUR NATURAL FORM, CUT OFF THE HEAD OF ONE,

WHO MANAGED TO DRINK, UP TO HIS NECK

STANZA 6

WHEN YOU DEPARTED, AFTER DELIVERING

PROPER PUNISHMENT TO THE ENEMIES FOR THEIR DECEITFULNESS,

THE ASURAS FOUGHT WITH DEVAS,

WHO FELL UNDER BALI'S MAAYA,

AND WERE WEAKENED VERY MUCH

STANZA 7

YOU KILLED KAALANEMI,

THEN KILLED MAALI,

INDRA KILLED BALI JUMPHA AND OTHERS,

AND WHEN NAMUCHI, WHO COULD NOT BE KILLED BY ANYTHING,

DRY OR WET WAS KILLED BY FOAM,

YOU, BY NAARADA'S ADVICE, STOPPED THE WAR

STANZA 8

HEARING HOW YOU, IN WOMAN'S FORM,

DELUDED THE ASURAS, LORD SHIVA WANTED TO SEE THAT,

AND COMING TO YOU, WITH PARVATHI AND SERVANTS,

EXPRESSED HIS WISH TO YOU, WHEN YOU VANISHED, MY LORD

STANZA 9

THEN SEEING IN THE GARDEN NEAR BY,

A PRETTY GIRL, WITH LONG LARGE EYES, PLAYING WITH BALL,

LORD SHIVA, THE CONQUEROR OF CUPID, FELL UNDER HER SPELL,

AND PASSIONATELY HUGGED HER, FORGETTING EVERYTHING

STANZA 10

THE GOD, RAN AFTER HER, AS SHE FLED FROM HIM,

AND CAME TO HIS SENSES, ONLY WITH THE EMPTYING OF SEMEN,

WHEN YOU WLCOMED HIM RESPECTFULLY

AND TOLD PAARVATHI, YOUR GREATNESS, MY LORD