DASAKOM 13
STANZA 1
YOUR DEVOTEE, SAGE NAARADA,
WHO IS FAMOUS FOR HIS PRACTICAL JOKES,
ONCE MET HIRANYAAKSHA,
WALKING IN FLOODED WATERS,
WHICH CAME ONLY UP TO HIS ANKLE LEVEL, LOOKING FOR YOU,
AND PRAISED HIS STRENGTH, WHILE BELITLING YOURS
STANZA 2
NAARADA TOLD YOU, “LORD, WHAT IS THIS! DONT YOU SEE?
THAT TRICKSTER VISHNU IS STEALING YOUR EARTH”
HE, EXCLAIMED
“WHERE, WHERE IS HE? SHOW HIM ME”
AND NAARADA SHOWED YOU,
COMING UP, WITH THE EARTH, MY LORD
STANZA 3
IGNORING THE DEMON'S PROVOKING RIDICULES,
YOU BY YOUR POWER,
LAID EARTH, TREMBLING IN FEAR,
ON THE SURFACE OF THE SEA,
AND JOINED IN THE FIGHT
STANZA 4
WHEN HE TOOK GADA IN HAND, YOU HELD HIM,
AND PLAYED A DUEL MATCH FOR SOME TIME,
WITH IT RESOUNDING IN THE SKY,
AS THE DEVAS ASSEMBLED IN THE SKY TO SEE THE MATCH,
BRAHMA WARNED, “STOP, TWILIGHT
IS COMING, WATCH”
STANZA 5
AS THE FIGHT PROGRESSAED,
AND YOUR GADA
WAS KNOCKED OUT OF YOUR
HAND BY HIS,
YOU SMILED AND
THOUGHT OF YOUR SUDARSHANCHAKRAM,
WHICH IS STRONG ENOUGH
TO KILL ALL ASURAS, AT A STROKE
STANZA 6
WHEN HE AIMED HIS SPEAR
AT YOU,
YOU SMASHED IT TO PIECES,
WITH A HARD BLOW WITH YOUR
WHEEL,
AT WHICH,
HE GOT ANGRY, AND HITTING
WITH BLOWS,
TRIED ALL SORTS OF TRICKS
ON YOU
STANZA 7
WHEN HIS MAGIC WHEEL VANISHED,
IN THE LIGHT OF A SMALL
SPARK FROM YOUR SUDARSHAN WHEEL,
AND HE ANGRILY STARTED
BLINDLY HITTING YOU,
YOU HIT HIM WITH THE THUMB
OF YOUR TOE
WHICH FELLED HIM DOWN ON
THE GROUND, MY LORD
STANZA 8
WHEN THE HUGE DEMON FELL,
SPILLING BLOOD,
THE SAGES WHO APPEARED
IN THE SKY,
RAINED FLOWERS, AND PRAISED
YOU,
IN THE FORM OF A SACRIFICE
FORMAT
STANZA 9
THE HYMNS IN SKIN, GRASS
FOR HAIR,
GHEE IN EYE, LEGS FOR FOUR
PRIESTS,
MOUTH FOR OILDISH, STOMACH
FOR IDA,
PLANETS ON THE TONGUE,
OILSPOON IN EAR, SOMA FOR
SEMEN,
AND GRAINS IN THE AREA
OF YOUR NECK
STANZA 10
PRAISED THUS BY SAGES,
YOU, GREAT IN SIZE AND
FAME,
RETURNED TO YOUR ABODE
HAPPILY
PLEASE STEM THE ASSAULT
OF ILLNESSES ON ME, MY LORD
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