DASAKOM 43

STANZA 1

ONCE WHEN YOU WERE LYING

ON HER LAP, DRINKING MILK HAPPILY,

SHE FELT YOU GETTING

VERY HEAVY ALL OF A SUDDEN, MY LORD,

STANZA 2

WHEN ALL IN AMBADI BLINDED BY THE SEVERE DUSTSTORM,

COULD NOT MAKE OUT ANYTING,

NOT SEEING YOU, YOUR MOTHER SCREAMED ALOUD,

“WHAT, WHAT HAPPEMED TO MY LITTLE CHILD!

STANZA 3

IT WAS AN ASURA CALLED THRINAVARTHA WHO STOLE YOU,

NOT AWARE THAT YOU YOURSELF WERE A STEALER,

BUT ONLY OF HEARTS,

YOUR MOTHER LOUDLY CRIED

 “WHAT, WHAT HAPPENED TO MY LITTLE CHILD!”

STANZA 4

THEN HE LOST SPEED WHEN YOUR WEIGHT

WAS UNBEARABLE, AND HE FELL,

AND THE NOISE OF HIS FALL SUBSIDED,

YOUR MOTHER'S CRY RESOUNDED ALL AROUND EVERYWHERE

STANZA 5

WHEN NANDA AND THEY TOO

STARTED CRYING,

THE ASURA TRIED TO RELEASE YOU

AND WHEN YOU, WHO FREE ALL,

DID NOT, HE FELL DEAD

STANZA 6

WHILE CRYING MISERABLY, THEY SAW

THE VERY HUGE DEMON FALLING,

AND ON HIS CHEST

YOU PLAYING MERRILY

STANZA 7

THEY LIFTED AS AN EMERALD FROM TOP OF A HILL,

AS HE LAY DEAD,

YOU PLAYING WITH A DEFIANT SMILE ON HIM

STANZA 8

I SALUTE YOU WHO WERE BY TURNS HUGGED

AND KISSED BY NANDAGOPA AND OTHER

JUMPED INTO THE HANDS OF THE GIRLS,

EAGER BUT HESITANT TO HOLD YOU,

STANZA 9

NANDA AND OTHERS PRAYED, MY LORD, TO YOU YOURSELF

SAYING, “MAY GOD ALONE PROTECT OUR LITTLE CHILD!”

STANZA 10

YOU, KRISHNA, WHO SO EASILY KILLED THIS DEMON, CALLED VATHA (MEANS WIND)

WHY CA'NT YOU DO AWAY WITH MY DISEASE CALLED VATHA (ALSO RHEUMAISM)