DASAKOM 70

 STANZA 1

 ONCE WHEN AFTER A TEMPLE FESTIVAL,

 YOU SPENT SOME TIME ENTERTAINING YOUR FRIENDS

 AND ALL OF YOU SLEPT SOUNDLY,

 A HUGE SNAKE SWALLOWED YOUR FATHER NANDA ALL AT ONCE

 STANZA 2

EVEN WHEN BEATEN WITH GREAT FORCE,

BY THOSE STRONG MEN, IT DIDNOT RELEASE HIM,

 STANZA 3

 WHEN THEY CRIED, “SAVE, SAVE OUR MASTER FROM THE SNAKE”

 AND WHEN YOU TOUCHED IT WITH YOUR FOOT

 WHEN YOU TOUCHED,

 IT TURNED INTO A DIVINE VIDYADHARAN

(VIDYADHARAS ARE KUBERA'S COURT MUSICIANS)

 AND HE PRAYED TO YOU AND LEFT

 STANZA 3

 HE PRAISED WHILE LEAVING, “YOU WHO CARRY SUDARSHANACHAKRA,

 I AM SUDARSHANA BY NAME,

I LAUGHED AT SOME SAGES BATHING NAKED IN THE GANGES,

 THEY CURSED ME AND TURNED ME INTO A PYTHON’

 AND YOU TOO WENT HOME HAPPILY WITH FRIENDS

 STANZA 4

 ONCE WHEN YOU WITH YOUR BROTHER

 WERE PLAYING TOGETHER, KUBERA'S ASSOCIATE, SHANKHACHOODA

 STOLE THE GIRLS, AND YOU RAN AFTER HIM,

 TOOK AND GAVE HIS CROWN JEWEL TO YOUR BROTHER BALARAMA

 STANZA 5

 AND AS DAYS BY, MISSING YOU

 WHEN YOU WERE PLAYING WITH YOUR FRIENDS,

 THEY ENVIED THE APSARAS AS THEY COULD SEE

 FROM ABOVE, YOUR BEAUTIFUL BODY AND WEPT

 STANZA 6

 ONE DAY A SMART SERVANT OF KAMSA, CALLED ARISHTA,

 EYES ON THE LOOK FOR HURTING PEOPLE

 STOOD IN YOUR WAY,

 BRAYING LOUD IN THE FORM OF A BULL VERY TALL

 STANZA 7

 THE HUGE BULL FEARSOME TO THE WORLD

 BREAKING RANKS AND BRAYING LOUD AND HARSH

 CAME TO YOU WHO IS ACCESSIBLE

 ONLY THROUGH THE SCRIPTURES IF AT ALL

 STANZA 8

 YOU PLEASED THE DEVAS BY KILLING

 THIS TERRIBLY UGLY HIGHORNED BULL,

 AND WERE PRAISED BY THEM,

 STANZA 9

 “WONDER YOU, COMMITTED TO PROTECT VRISHA,

 HAVE DESTROYED VRISHA AND SIMULTANEOUSLY SAVED IT

 (VRISHA MEANS DHARMA, BULL, INDRA, RESPECTIVELY)

STANZA 10

 YOUR FRIENDS LAUGHED SAYING “RUN, RUN AWAY, BULLS,

 HERE COMES YOUR ENEMY WHO KILLS ALL BULLS”

 AND YOU TOGETHER WENT HAPPILY HOME

 PLEASE SAVE ME FROM MY ILLNESS, MY LORD