DASAKOM 53

 STANZA 1

 YOU GRADUALLY GREW UP, MY LORD,

 FROM BOYHOOD TO ROMANTIC ADIULTHOOD,

 AND ACCORDINGLY CHANGED HAPPILY

 FROM TENDING CALVES TO TENDING COWS

 STANZA 2

 YOUR PRESENT ACTIVITIES ARE NOT

 IN CONFLICT WITH YOUR BEGINNINGS, MY LORD

 BORN TO PROTECT GOTHRA, YOU PROTECT GOTHRA (GOTHRA, FEM MEANS EARTH

 ARE NOW DOING GOTHRAANAM (GO, COW + THRAANAM, PROTECTION)

 STANZA 3

 ONCE WHEN YOU WERE ROAMING WITH BALARAAMA,

 LOOKING AT THE BEAUTIES OF THE WOODS,

 YOUR FRIEND SREEDAMA SUGGESTED GOING TO DHENUKAKAANANAM, AND

 ACCORDINGLY YOU WENT HAPPILY THERE

 STANZA 4

 IN THAT PLACE OF TALL PALMTREES,

 WHEN, AT YOUR WORD, BALARAAMA SHOOK WITH FORCE ONE TREE

 ALONG WITH RAW AND RIPE FRUITS, FELL

 AN ASURA CALLED DHENUKA TOO

 STANZA 5

 YOU MADE BALARAAMA KILL HIM,

 SURELY BECAUSE YOU MUST HAVE THOUGHT,

 “COMMITTED AS I AM TO PROTECT COWS, (DHENU MEANS COW ),

 HOW CAN I KILL A DHENUKA! "

 STANZA 6

 WHEN HIS SERVANTS ATTACKED YOU

 IN THE FORM OF JACKALS

 YOU AND BROTHER SMASHED THEM

 LIKE JUMBOO FRUITS, QUITE EASILY

 STANZA 7

 THE GOD OF OCEANS, VARUNA,

 HID HIS NAME JUNBUKA, IN SCRIPTURES,

 I THINK, BECAUSE HE HAS

 THE SAME NAME AS THESE DEMONS

 STANZA 8

 YOU, WITH FRIENDS, ATE THE JUMBOO FRUITS,

 AS THE DEVAS PRAISED,

 “LORD, YOU GOT THE FRUIT OF YOUR BIRTH, “

 JOKING, “YES INDEED, I GOT THE FRUIT

 STANZA 9

 AFTER EATING THE BIG, HOMEY-SWEET,

 JUICY, PULPY FRUITS, WITH THE BOYS,

 WHO ATE AND WERE HIGHLY PLEASED,

 AND CARRIED BAGS OF FRUITS, IN THEIR HANDS

 STANZA 10

 OTHERS TOO ATE HAPPILY THOSE SWEET FRUITS,

 AND PRAISED YOU, SAYING JOYFULLY, " HA, HA, DHENUKA, THE DEMON, IS KILLED!

 HAIL, KRISHNA, OUR SAVIOUR, LIVE YOU LONG ",

 MY LORD, SAVE ME FROM MY ILLNESS, I PRAY

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