DASAKOM 27

STANZA 1

DURVAASAA, WHEN HE GOT A DIVINE GARLAND FROM A GIRL PRESENTED IT INDRA,

AND WHEN IT WAS TRAMPLED UNDER THE ELEPHANT'S FOOT,

GOT ANGRY AND CURSED HIM

HOW CAN OTHER GODS' DEVOTEES HAVE PATIENCE

STANZA 2

WHEN INDRA, THE LORD OF DEVAS, WHO NEVER GET OLD,

GOT OLD, BY THE FORCE OF THE CURSE,

AND LOST HIS YOUTHFUL VIGOUR,

AND WERE DEFEATED IN BATTLE AFTER BATTLE,

SHIVA AND OTHER GODS, WENT TO BRAHMA, AND WITH HIM, APPROACHED YOU

STANZA 3

WHEN BRAHMA AND OTHERS SANG HYMNS PRAISING YOU,

YOU APPEARED IN FULL GLORY BEFORE THEM AND SAID,

"LET ALL DEVAS MAKE TRUCE WITH ASURAS,

AND CHURN NECTAR FROM THE OCEAN OF MILK,

WITH MANDARA MOUNTAIN AS CHURNING ROD”

STANZA 4

WHEN, AFTER MAKING TRUCE, THEY WERE TURNING THE CHURNING ROD,

WHEN IT WAS FOUND THAT THE MOUNTAIN WAS SINKING,

YOU, IN GUISE OF A TORTOISE LIFTED IT,

AS IF IT WERE A NUT, ON GARUDA'S BACK,

AND PLACED IT BACK IN THE SEA

STANZA 5

WHEN DEVAS AND ASURAS TOGETHER BEGAN CHURNING

WITH THE SNAKE, AS ROPE,

YOU MADE THE ASURAS BE

AT ITS MOUTH END, BY A TRICK

STANZA 6

WHEN, AS THE CHURNING PROGRSSED,

AS THE EARTH STARTED SINKING IN THE SEA,

AND THE DEVAS WERE PERTURBED, YOU TOOK THE FORM OF

A HARD-SHELLED TORTOISE OF VERY HUGE SIZE

STANZA 7

AND ON ITS HUGE BACK, HARD AS DIAMOND,

AND NEARLY A CRORE MILES ACROSS ITS BACK,

IT LIFTED THE EARTH, APPEARING LIKE A LITTLE NUT,

AND PLACED IT IN THE SEA

STANZA 8

WHEN THE EARTH WAS LIFTED UP FROM SEA,

BOTH THE ASURAS AND THE DEVAS STARTED THE CHURNING MORE ZESTFULLY,

AND YOU LENT THEM MORE VIGOUR

BY ENTERING INTO THEIR BODIES

STANZA 9

SEEING YOU STANDING WITH ONE HAND ON THE MOUNTAIN, AND HOLDING IT DOWN,

AS DUE TO THE SPEED OF CHURNING, IT BEGAN TO MOVE UP,

SHIVA, BRAHMA AND OTHER GODS,

SHOWERED FLOWERS FROM THE SKY AND

PRAISED YOU, MY LORD

STANZA 10

WHEN THE ASURAS SUFFRERD VERY MUCH FROM THE SERPENT'S POISONOUS FUMES,

AND DEVAS TOO AFFECTED A LITTTLE,

YOU KINDLY MADE THE CLOUDS RAIN,

WHERE THE DEVAS STOOD, BUT NOT ON ASURAS, EVEN A DROP

STANZA 11

WHEN THERE WAS NO CHANGE IN SEA,

EVEN AFTER CHURNING THE SEA WITH SUCH FORCE

THAT THE WHALES AND CROCODILES WERE TOSSED ABOUT FAST AND FAST,

THEN YOU PULLED THE ROPE,

BY HOLDING IT IN BOTH YOUR HANDS.