DASAKOM 86

 STANZA 1

 SALVA, ONE THE DISAPPOINTED SUITORS WHO FAILED IN HIS SUT,

GOT FROM GOD SHIVA AN AEROPLANE

 AND WITH ITS HELP, RAIDED DWAARAKA, WHEN YOU WERE AWAY IN HASTHINAUR,

 AND WHOM PRADYUMNA FOUGHT BACK WITH THE FULL YAADAVA ARMY IN A WAR WHICH

 KILLED HIS MINISTER DYUMANTH, IN THIS WAR WHICH LASTED TWENTYSEVEN DAYS

 STANZA 2

 YOU WITH BALARAAMA RUSHED AND SURROUNDED THE DEPLENISHED ARMY

 AND WHEN HE KNOCKED DOWN YOUR SHAARGA BOW WITH HIS GUDGEL,

 AND WHEN BY AN INDUCED MAGIC HYPNOTISM, HE SHOWED YOUR FATHER LYING KILED,

 AND WHICH, SOME SAY, YOU BELIEVED FOR A MINUTE, BUT WHICH VYAASA THE AUTHOR HIMSELF REFUTED

 STANZA 3

 AFTER YOU POUNDED SAALVA WITH HARD BLOWS FROM YOUR GADA,

 AND CUT OFF HIS HEAD WITH YOUR WHEEL, DANTHAVAKTHRA JUMPED UP,

 AND HURLED HIS GADA AT YOU,

 WHEN YOU KILLED HIM, WITH YOUR SWORD, KOUMODAKI

 STANZA 4

 WHEN YOU WERE AWAY, WHILE, IN THE KOURAVA ASSRMBLY, THEY WERE PLAYING DICE,

 YOU, HEARING PAANCHAALIS'S LOUD CRIES FOR HELP, SUPPLIED LIMITLESS LENGTH OF CLOTHES,

 AND APPEALED TO, BY HER, AFRAID OF DURVAASAS, WHO TURNED UP AFTER SHE HAD HER LAST WHEEL, YOU CAME, AND EATING A GRAIN OF RICE, SATISFIED THAT GREAT SAGE

 STANZA 5

 DURING THE PREPARATIONS FOR WAR, WHEN ARJUNA ASKED FOR HELP, YOU AGREED TO BE SINGLY K WITH THE PAADAVAS,

 GAVE THE KOURAVAS THE FULL ARMY, AND FOR PAANDAVAS'S SAKE, WENT TO HASTHINAPUR AS A MESSENGER,

 AND WHEN DURYODHANA REJECTED YOUR WORD, RESPECTED BY BHEESHMA, DRONA AND OTHERS,

 UPSET THE CITY, BY SHOWING YOUR ALLPERVADING UNIVERSAL FORM, THE VISHWAROOPAM

 STANZA 6

 YOU DROVE ARJUNA'S CHARIOT, AND WHEN HE, AT THE BEGINNING OF WAR, LOST NERVE AT THIS FRATRICIDAL MASS-SLAUGHTER, YOU STEADIED HIM SAYING, " WHAT IS THIS?, THE SOUL IS ALL ONE,

 WHO IS THE KILLER, WHO IS THE KILLED, GIVE UP THIS FEAR OF WAR, PERFORM THIS DUTY OF WAR, WITH MIND CENTRED ON ME “, SHOWING THE UNIVERSAL FORM OF SELF

 STANZA 7

 WHEN YOUR GREATEST DEVOTEE, BHEESHMA, WAS KILLING LAKHS OF TROOPS, AND THOUSANDS OF KINGS, ARJUNA HIMSELF VISIBLY SHATTERED, YOU, BREAKING YOUR VOW OF NOT TAKING UP ARMS, JUMPED THE WHEEL IN HAND, BACKED ON SEEING HIM HAPPILY STANDING, HEAD BOWED DOWN, BEFORE YOU

 STANZA 8

 IN THE BATTLE WITH DRONA, YOU TOOK ON YOUR CHEST, BHAGADATHHA'S VAISHNAVAASTHRAM,

 LET KARNA'S NAAGAASTHRAM STRIKE ONLY ARJUNA'S HELMET, BY LOWERING THE GROUND,

 AND DECEIVED JAYADRATHHA, BY HIDING THE SUN WITH YOUR WHEEL

 WHAT DID YOU NOT DO FOR THE PAANDAVAS, MY LORD ,!

 STANZA 9

 WHEN BALARAAMA, WHO, IN THE BEGINNING OF WAR, WENT ON A PILGRIMAGE TO HOLY PLACES, WENT TO NAIMISHAARANYA,, AND SOOTHA, THE STORYTELLER, DID NOT GET UP, CUT OFF HIS HEAD, AND APPOINTED HIS SON IN HIS PLACE, CAME TO THE BATTLEFIELD AND SAW THE DUEL BETWEEN BHEEMA AND DURYODHANA WAS UNSTOPPABLE, RETURNED TO YOUR CITY, DWAARAKA

 STANZA 10

 ARJUNA, UPSET AT ASHWATHHAMA'S MURDER OF DROUPADI'S SONS, RAN AFTER HIM,

 WITHDREW THE BRAHMAASTHRAM, AT YOUR ADVICE AND TOOK THE GEM FROM HIS HEAD,

 AND WHEN IT GOT INTO UTHHARA'S WOMB, TO EXTERMINATE THE PAANDAVA LINE,

 YOU, BECAME AS SMALL AS A THUMB, WITH SUDARSHANA WHEEL IN HAND, TO SAVE THE LINE

 STANZA 11

 BHEESHMA, WHO COULD DIE AT WILL, TAUGHT DHARMAPUTHRA THE DUTIES OF KING, AND FULLY SATISFIED, GAVE UP HIS BODY, AND BECAME ONE WITH YOU,

 YOU STAYED, AND HELPED DHARMAPUTHRA TO PERFORM ASHWAMEDHA SACRIFICES,

 AND RETURNED TO DWAARAKA PLEASE SAVE ME, MY LORD

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