DASAKOM 61

 STANZA 1

 THEN YOU WITH YOUR FRIENDS, WENT FAR AWAY FROM VRINDAVANAM ONE DAY,

 AND TO BLESS THE SMALL GROUP OF BRAHMIN WIVES,

 SENT TO THEIR HUSBANDS ENGAGED IN SOME HOLY SARIFICE,

 FOR SOME FOOD TO EAT

 STANZA 2

 SEEING THE BOYS SUFFERING FROM HUNGER AND THIRST,

 YOU TOLD THEM TO GO THERE AND ASK FOR FOOD AND WATER

 BUT THOUGH THEY HEARD, PRETENED AS IF THEY DID NOT

 NO SURPRISE, NOT HAVING BHAKTHAM

 (BHAKTHAM MEANS FOOD, AND BHAKTHA DEVOTED)

 HOW CAN THESE NO-BHAKTHAS GIVE BHAKTHAM TO YOU?

 STANZA 3

 WHEN THEY WENT TO THEM, AND ASKED,

 (SHRUTHI MEANS BOTH SRIPTURE AND HEARING)

 EVEN THOUGH THEY HEARD ALRIGHT,

 THEY PRETENDED NOT HAVING HEARD

 AND DID NOT SAY ANTTHING AT ALL

 STANZA 4

 THE BOYS, UPSET BY THIS SNUBBING RETURNED

 NO SURPRISE IN THIS, HOW CAN THESE TWICEBORNS

 SO LONG WITH NO BHAKTHAM,

 GIVE BHAKTHAM TO YOU AT ALL?

 STANZA 5

 WHEN YOU TOLD THE BOYS,

 ‘TELL THEIR WIVES THAT I SENT YOU

 THEY WILL CERTAINLY BE KIND ENOUGH TO GIVE US FOOD’

 THEY ASKED THE WOMEN FOR SOMETHING TO EAT

 STANZA 6

 AND THE WOMEN SAW YOU

 STANDING WITH YOUR ARM ROUND THE NECK OF YOUR FRIEND

 HAIR AND EARRINGS SWINGING TO AND FRO,

 ON THE CHEEKS, AND LOOKING KINDLY AT THEM LOVINGLY

 STANZA 7

 THEN ONE WOMAN TRYING TO COME TO YOU,

 WAS STOPPED BY HER HUSBAND HOLDING HER ARM,

 ATTAINED MOKSHA IMMEDIATELY

 HOW LUCKY SHE WAS INDEED!

 STANZA 8

 YOU ACCEPTED THE FOOD BROUGHT BY THEM,

 BLESSED THEM, WHO LEFT HOME JUST TO TOUCH YOU,

 AND MADE THEM BLAMELESS IN THE EYES OF THEIR HUSBANDS

 STANZA 9

 THEY RUSHED TO YOU

 WITH WATER AND THE BEST FOOD THEY COULD COOK,

 LONG DEVOTED TO YOU,

 AND LONG WISHING JUST TO TOUCH YOU ONCE

 STANZA 10

 THE BRAHMINS LATER KNEW THE TRUTH

 AND ADMITTING THEIR MISTAKE

 AND ADMIRING THE WIVES' DEVOTIOIN TO YOU,

 CAME AND WORSHIPPED YOU, SINGING SONGS OF PRAISE

 STANZA 10