DASAKOM 11

STANZA 1

AS THE CREATION WAS GRADUALLY PROCEEDING,

SANAKA AND OTHER SAINTS

CAME TO VAIKUNTHHAM,

TO SEE YOU, MY LORD

STANZA 2

THEY PASSED THROUGH MANY RAMPARTS,

AND REACHED YOUR ABODE,

ENJOYING THE SIGHT

OF MANY LAKES AND MANY MANSIONS, AS THEY WENT

STANZA 3

THE WATCHMEN, JAYA AND VIJAYA,

STOPPED THEM, AS THEY ENTERIED EAGERLY TO SEE YOU,

ANGER ROSE IN THEIR MINDS,

ALL BY YOUR WILL, MY LORD

STANZA 4

THEY CURSED THE WATCHMEN,

“YOU BEHAVED IN A MANNER NOT BEFITTING A PLACE LIKE VAIKUNTHHAM,

LET YOU BE ASURAS, AND REMAIN SO FOR A LONG TIME, “

AND WHEN THEY APOLOGISED, AND PRAYED,

“MAY WE REMEMBER GOD AT ALL TIMES, WHATEVER HAPPENS, MY LORD”

STANZA 5

KNOWING THIS YOU, ALONG WITH LAKSHMI, CAME OUT,

WITH YOUR HAND ON GARUDA'S SHOULDERS,

MAKING THEM ALL HAPPY,

WITH YOUR BEAUTIFUL FORM

STANZA 6

PLEASING THE SAGES WITH YOUR WORDS,

YOU TOLD YOUR SERVANTS,

WHO HAVE NO SUPPORT,

OTHER THAN YOU LOVINGLY,

“CONFRONT ME DURING THREE BIRTHS,

THEN RESUME YOUR OLD PLACES, MY FRIENDS"

STANZA 7

THEN THESE YOUR SERVANTS WERE BORN AS THE TWIN SONS OF DITHI,

WIFE OF SAGE KASHYAPA,

AND BECAUSE THEY WERE DELIVERED IN THE TWILIGHT HOURS,

BECAME LIKE GOD OF DEATH,

THE DESTROYER OF THE WORLD

STANZA 8

THEY, NAMED KASHIPU AND AKSHA,

BOTH WITH THE SAME FORENAME, HIRANYA,

BORN BY NATURE, VIOLENT,

WENT ON ASSAULTING ALL THE WORLDS,

WHICH ARE UNDER YOUR PROTECTION

STANZA 9

HIRANYAAKSHA, NOT FINDING ANY FOE, HIS EQUAL,

RAN AROUND, CARRYING THE EARTH IN HIS HAND,

WITH GADA IN HAND,

LOOKING FOR SOME CHALLENGER

STANZA 10

THEN HEARING FROM VARUNA, LORD OF THE SEA,

THAT YOU ARE HIS EQUAL,

HE STARTED SEARCHING FOR YOU

ONLY YOUR DEVOTTES CAN SEE YOU

PLEASE PROTECT ME FROM DISEASES, MY LORD.

 

DASAKOM 12

STANZA 1

MANU, SON OF THE FIRST SELFBORN CREATOR OF AN EARLIER AEON,

WHO WAS PREOCCUPIED WITH MAKING MORE MEN,

ONE DAY SAW THE EARTH SINKING IN THE SEA,

AND ALONG WITH SAINTS, WENT TO SATHYALOKAM

TO SEE BRAHMA, WHO WORSHIPPED YOU ALWAYS IN HIS MIND

STANZA 2

MANU TOLD BRAHMA, “WHILE I WAS CREATING MEN,

THE EARTH SANK IN WATER PLEASE GIVE A PLACE TO THEM”

AND BRAHMA, SAT PRAYING TO YOU, FOR SOME TIME

STANZA 3

WHEN HE WAS THUS ASKING YOU TO HELP HIM,

YOU CAME OUT OF HIS NOSTRIL, AS A BABY PIG,

WHILE HE WAS SAYING,

“ONCE I DRANK WATER, AGAIN IT SINKS,

WHAT SHALL I DO NOW? "

STANZA 4

MANU WAS SURPRISED BEYOND LIMIT,

AND WENT HOME WITH HIS SONS,

AFTER IT CAME OUT AND GREW

IN A MINUTE, ELEPHANTSIZE

STANZA 5

AS MANU WAS WONDERING,

“WHO IS THIS IN THE FORM OF A PIG OF SUCH GREAT SIZE?

CAN IT BE VISHNU'S MAAYA? ",

SUDDENLY IT BECAME MOUNTAINSIZE AND ROARED LOUDLY

STANZA 6

HEARING THE LOUD ROAR,

THE SAGES, ASSEMLED IN THE SKY, CHEERED,

AND EXHILERATED, IT ROARED MORE LOUDLY,

AND DIVED DEEP INTO THE SEA

STANZA 7

IT ENTERED THE WATER,

ITS SMOKEBROWN HAIR STANDING UP,

TAIL RAISED UP, SNOUT LOWERED, AND

WITH A VERY LOUD SPLASH PARTING THE WATER IN TWO,

PLEASING, WITH ITS REVOLVING EYEBALLS, ALL WHO SAW

STANZA 8

THE BOAR ENTERED THE WATERS, SWIRLING

WITH THE RAPID MOVEMENTS OF CROCODILES AND WHALES,

BELOW THE MUDDY WAVES, YOU SEARCHED FOR THE EARTH,

MAKING THE NETHERLAND QUIVER AS IN AN EARTHQUAKE SHOCK

STANZA 9

YOU, UNDER THE GUISE OF A WILD BOAR,

SAW THE EARTH KEPT BY THE DEMON IN THE NETHERLAND,

UNDER THE SEA AND,

RESISTING THOSE WHO TRIED TO PREVENT,

TOOK HER ON THE MUZZLE OF THE BOAR, MY LORD

STANZA 10

CARRYING THE EARTH, AS IF IT WERE

A SMALL NUT ON HIS PROBOSCIS,

YOU, WHO CAME UP UNDER THE GUISE OF A WILD BOAR,

PLEASE RAISE FROM THE MIRE OF DISEASES, PLEASE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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,

LIKE " HA, THIS A WILD ANIMAL[A1] ”

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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DASAKOM 14

STANZA 1

MANU, SON OF BRAHMA,

RECALLING CONTINUOUSLY

YOUR STORY WITHOUT BREAK,

LIVED HAPPILY, AS A DEVOTEE OF YOURS

STANZA 2

AT THAT TIME, KARDAMA, BORN FROM BRAHMA'S SHADOW,

AT HIS WORD, DID PENANCE,

FOR A THOUSAND YEARS, ALONG WITH HIS WIFE,

IN ORDER TO HAVE CHILDREN, MY LORD

STANZA 3

THEN YOU SHOWED HIM YOUR BODY,

BEAUTIFUL LIKE DARK THICK CLOUDS,

HOLDING LOTUS FLOWER IN YOUR HAND,

FACE RESPLENDENT WITH A SWEET SMILE

STANZA 4

HIM, AS HE STOOD PRAYING,

YOU BLESSED, AND GIVING MANU'S DAUGHTER FOR WIFE,

NINE DAUGHTERS, AND YOURSELF AS SON, LEFT

STANZA 5

FOLLOWING THE ADVICE OF NAARADA,

WHOM YOU PROMPTED THERETO,

MANU, WITH HIS QUEEN SHATHAROOPA,

AND DAUGHTER DEVAHOOTHI,

CAME TO KARDAMA, WHO WAS AWAITING HIM

STANZA 6

MARRIED TO DEVAHOOTHI,

THOUGH HE WANTED TO SPEND HIS LIFE

 IN WORSHIPPING YOU,

HE WAS VERY PLEASED

WITH HER LOVING CARE OF HIM

STANZA 7

THEN IN AN AEROPLANE

ATTAINED BY THE POWER HE GOT BY WORSHIPPING YOU,

HE, REGAINING HIS YOUTH,

LIVED WITH SEVERAL GIRLS IN HEAVEN HAPPILY

STANZA 8

AFTER THE LAPSE OF A HUNDRED YEARS,

HE WANTED TO GO TO THE FOREST,

AND LEAD A HERMIT'S LIFE,

STAYED BACK AT HER REQUEST,

AWAITING YOUR COMING, MY LORD

STANZA 9

AS DEVAHOOTHI, HONOURING YOUR ADVICE,

PRAYED DEVOUTLY TO YOU,

YOU CAME, TO TEACH ALL,

THE ULTIMATE TRUTH OF EXISTENCE

STANZA 10

WHEN SATISFIED, KARDAMA LEFT FOR THE FOREST LIFE,

YOU WHO TAUGHT YOUR MOTHER,

THE ESSENCE OF ALL RELGIONS, MY LORD,

SAVE ME FROM MY ILLNESS, PLEASE

 

 

 

 

 

DASAKOM 15

STANZA 1

MIND ATTACHED TO DESIRES IS BINDING, UNATTACHED, LIBERATING,

SINCE THE WAY OF DEVOTION, BHAKTHIYOGA, REMOVES ATTACHMENT

BUT ONLY DEVOTION CAN ERADICATE ATTACHMENT FROM ITS ROOTS

YOU, AS KAPILA, THE SAGE, SAID SO TO DEVAHOOTHI, MY LORD

STANZA 2

WHOEVER KNOWS THAT MAN IS A COMPOUND OF THESE TWENTYFIVE PARTS,

NATURE, EGO, INDIVIDUALITY, HEART AND TEN SENSE ORGANS,

WOULD NOT BE BOUND BY ANY ATTACHMENT AT ALL

YOU, AS KAPILA,  

STANZA 3

MAN IS NOT AFFECTED BY NATURE,

BUT IF HE GETS ATTACHED TO IT,

ITS QUALITIES WILL BECOME PART OF HIM

KAPILA  -

STANZA 4

FIRST PURIFY YOUR MIND, BY PERFORMING ALL THE YOGA STEPS,

AND THEN MEDITATE REGULARLY ON ME,

AS SEATED ON GARUDA, AND AS HANDSOME AS A BLACK LOTUS TREE

KAPILA   

STANZA 5

DEEP DEVOTION IS A STATE OF MIND,

WHEN, FANNED BY HEARING STORIES OF ME,

AND RECITING HYMNS,

LOVE OF YOU WELLS UP LIKE GANGES WATER INTO THE HEART,

AND THAT FREES THE WORLD FROM MORTALITY

STANZA 6

A HOUSEHOLDER TOO,

WHO SPENDS HIS LIFE,

LOOKING AFTER WIFE AND CHILDREN WITH ILLGOTTEN WEALTH,

GAINED BY DEVIOUS WAYS,

SUFFERS VERY MUCH WITHOUT END

KAPILA    -

STANZA 7

SUFFERING TERRIBLE PAIN IN MOTHER'S WOMB,

AND AFTER GETTING A GLIMSE OF TRUTH AT THE TIME OF BIRTH,

BUT IMMEDIATELY LOSING THE MEMORY OF IT,

HE, IN HIS YOUTH, FALLS AGAIN INTO DELUSION

KAPILA  

STANZA 8

A HOUSEHOLDER TOO, WHO DOES ALL HIS DUTIES BY ANCESTORS AND DEVAS,

FALLS INTO THE SOUTHWARD PATH,

WHILE ACTION, WITHOUT WISH, DONE AS AN OFFERING TO ME,

LEADS IN THE NORTHWARD PATH OF LIBERATION, MY LORD

KAPILA   

STANZA 9

THUS BLESSING HER, WHO LEARNT WELL ALL THAT IS TO BE LEARNT,

AND PRAISED YOU WITH HYMNS,

YOU LEFT WITH OTHER YOGIS,

AND DEVAHOOTHI, HER MIND CLEARED OF ALL DOUBTS,

GOT LIBERATION THROUGH THE PATH OF LIBERATION SOON

STANZA 10

AGAIN WHY SAY MORE! YOU SAID THAT DEVOTION TO YOU

WILL FREE FROM FEAR, AND LEAD TO SUCCESS IN ALL WORK

AND SO FREE ME FROM MY ILLNESS,

MAKE MY DEVOTION MORE AND MORE FIRM, MY LORD

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DASAKOM 16

STANZA 1

DAKSHA, BRAHMA'S SON, MARRIED MANU'S DAUGHTER, PRASOOTHI

AND HAD THIRTEEN DAUGHTERS,

OF WHOM HE GAVE IN MARRIAGE TEN TO DHARMA,

SWADHA TO ANCESTRAL SPIRITS, SWAAHA TO FIRE,

AND SATHI TO SHIVA,

WHO IS A PART INCARNATION OF YOURS

STANZA 2

MOORTHI, DHARMA'S DAUGHTER, GAVE BITTH TO YOU,

NAARAAYANA, AND YOUR TWIN BROTHER, NARA,

OF EXTRAORDINARY POWER AT WHOSE BIRTH,

DEVAS IN HEAVEN SHOWERED FLOWERS AND PRAISED YOU, MY LORD

STANZA 3

YOU TOGETHER FOUGHT THOUSAND TIMES WITH AN ASURA, CALLED SAHASRAKAVACHA,

WHO HAD A THOUSAND STEEL COATS OF ARMS THAT COULD BE PIERCED

ONLY AFTER ALTERNATIVELY PERFORMING EACH TIME,

BOTH YAAGA AND FIGHT, IN THAT ORDER,

AND THEN WHEN ONLY ONE COAT WAS LEFT,

YOU EASILY KILLED HIM, IN NO TIME

STANZA 4

YOU AND YOUR BROTHER STAYED IN BADARINATH,

TEACHING THE DUTIES OF MAN,

AND WAYS OF ATTAINING LIBERATION,

WHEN DEVENDRA, AFRAID OF LOSING HIS SUPREMACY,

SENT CUPID, ALONG WITH HEAVEN'S DANCING GIRLS

STANZA 5

CUPID, WITH SPRING AS FRIEND,

GIRLS'S GLANCES AS ARROWS, SHOT AT YOU SEVERAL TIMES,

AND WHEN HE FOUND THAT IT DID NOT MAKE A DENT ON YOU,

GOT AFRAID AND FLED HURRIEDLY

STANZA 6

YOU CALLED HIM BACK, AND SAID,

“DONT FEAR, CUPID, COME AND RECEIVE OUR HOSPITALITY",

AND SHOWED HIM YOUR PRETTY MAIDS,

WHEN HE WAS STUNNED, AND PRAISED YOU, MY LORD

STANZA 7

CUPID AND OTHERS WHO CAME TO DELUDE YOU,

WERE THEMSELVES DELUDED BY THE CHARMS OF THE MAIDS,

AND ACCEPTED URVASHI, WHOSE BEAUTY MADE THEM LOSE THEIR PRIDE

IN THEIR BEAUTIFULLY CHARMING GIRLS

STANZA 8

DEVENDRA, SEEING URVASHI, AND HEARING WHAT HAPPENED,

WAS VERY MUCH HUMBLED, THINKING OF YOUR SUPERIORITY

NO INCARNATION OF YOURS HAS BEEN GREATER THAN THIS,

EXCEPT THIS OF YOURS, MY LORD

STANZA 9

DAKKSHA, SON OF BRAHMA, WAS SPOILT BY HIS FATHER,

SO MUCH THAT HE DID NOT PAY ANY CARE TO YOUR WORSHIP,

AND ARROGANTLY INSULTED LORD SHIVA, PART INCARNATION OF YOURS,

AND HUMILIATED HIS OWN DAUGHTER, DURING THE YAAGA, TAINTED BY HIS HATRED

STANZA 10

WHEN SHIVA ANGRILY DESPOILED THE YAAGA,

AND CHOPPED OFF HIS HEAD,

AT THE DEVAS' PLEADINGS,

SHIVA REVIVED HIM, WHO PRAISED THE LORD HUMBLY

MY LORD, WHO IS SO KIND TO ALL DEVOTEES,

KINDLY SAVE ME FROM MY ILLNESS PLEASE

DASAKOM 17

STANZA 1

KING UTHHAANAPAADA, SON OF MANU, HAD TWO WIVES

OF WHOM SURUCHI WAS HIS

FAVOURITE WIFE,

AND THE OTHER, SUNEETHI, WHO WAS IGNORED,

FOUND REFUGE IN YOU ALONE, HAVING NO OTHER HELP

STANZA 2

ONCE WHEN SUNEETHI'S। SON, DHRUVA,

SEEING UTHHAMA, SURUCHI'S SON,

ON FATHER'S LAP, AND TRIED TO CLIMB,

SURUCHI SCOLDED THE BOY ANGRILY

STANZA 3

AS THE INFATUATED FATHER SAT SILENT,

REELING UNDER THIS REBUFF, THE POOR BOY

RAN TO HIS MOTHER, WHO TOLD HIM THAT ONLY YOU

ARE CAPABLE OF SAVING THE SUFFERING FROM FATE TO ESCAPE FROM ONE'S FATE

STANZA 4

THEN THE PROUD FIVE YEAR OLD BOY,

DETERMINED TO WORSHIP YOU,

LEAVING HOME WENT TO THE FOREST, AND ON THE WAY,

MET NAARADA, FROM WHOM HE LEARNT THE MANTHRA WAY OF WORSHIP,

AND WENT INSIDE A FOREST CALLED MADHUKAANANAM, TO DO PENANCE

STANZA 5

NAARADA, WHO HAD COME TO THE CITY,

VISITED DHRUVA'S FATHER, AND TOLD HIM EVERYTHING ABOUT HIS SON,

WHILE DHRUVA CONTINUED FOR FIVE YEARS THE PENANCE,

ITS SEVERITY GROWING HARDER AND HARDER EVERY MONTH

STANZA 6

WHEN THE WORLD FELT STIFLED BY HIS HARD PENEANCE,

YOU, REQUESTED BY DEVAS, APPEARED

SEATED ON GARUDA, IN FRONT OF HIM,

WHO WAS ABSORBED IN THE JOY OF MEDITATING ON YOUR FORM

STANZA 7

YOU CAME NEAR, AND LOVINGLY TOUCHED HIM WITH YOUR CONCH,

WHEN HE PRAISED YOU,

HIS EYES WELLING WITH WAVES OF JOY,

AT THE SIGHT OF YOUR BEAUTIFUL FORM

STANZA 8

YOU, UNDERSTANDING HIS INTENT,

TOLD HIM, AS HE BOWED BEFORE YOU,

“AFTER YOU RULE YOUR SUBJECTS FOR A LONG TIME,

COME AND OCCUPY THE IMMORTAL PLACE THAT WOULD BE CALLED DHRUVA'S ABODE”

STANZA 9

HE, HEARING YOUR WORDS, WENT TO THE CITY, WELCOMED BY ALL PEOPLE,

AND WHEN HIS FATHER RETIRED TO THE FOREST,

RULED THE COUNTRY, HAPPY THAT HE HAD YOUR BLESSING, MY LORD

STANZA 10

WHEN UTHHAMA WAS KILLLED BY A YAKSHA,

HE, BENT ON FIGHTING WITH ALL YAKSHAS,

DESISTED, WHEN KUBERA INTERVENED,

AND FROM A PLEASED KUBERA,

ASKED ONLY CONTINUED DEVOTION TO YOU