005 Sāḷakkirāmam (in Nepal)

  1. O heart! With only his bow and arrows as his help, he crossed the forests where deer, elephants and horses wandered, built a bridge with stones over the wave-filled ocean, went to Lanka, fought the heroic Rāksasas and, defeating them, cut off the ten heads of Rāvaṇa, the Rākshasa king of Lanka surrounded with oceans and forts. Let us go to beautiful Sāḷakkirāmam where he stays and worship him.

  2. The lord who came to the earth, went to Lanka that was encircled by forts and guarded by Rakshasas with an army of rutting elephants, horses, huge roaring chariots and warriors and, shooting his arrows, shattered them to pieces stays in beautiful Sāḷakkirāmam surrounded with ponds and blooming with fragrant flowers where the gods from the sky come down, surround him and worship him. O heart, let us go there.

  3. The lord of the gods in the sky with a mighty discus that conquers all his enemies is the rolling waves, the ancient mountains, the eon, all the eight directions, the moon, the sun and the darkness. He, the enemy of the Rakshasas who cannot approach him, stays in beautiful Sāḷakkirāmam surrounded with water. O heart, let us go there and worship him.

  4. The faultless god of Kuḍandai who bent his bow and conquered the Rakshasas when they came like a flood to fight in their chariots not knowing what would happen in the war and who has a thousand names and wears a thulasi garland swarming with bright-winged bees stays in Thirupperur surrounded with water that never dries up and in Sālakkirāmam encircled by fields where cranes live. O heart, let us go there and worship him.

  5. The lord of the gods of the sky with a shining discus who cut off the screaming Surpanaha’s nose and ears with his sharp sword and carried Govardhana mountain to protect the cows and the cowherds, stopping the roaring storm sent by Indra stays in beautiful Sālakkirāmam surrounded with ponds. O heart, let us go there and worship him .

  6. The lord dark as a kāyām flower drank the poisonous milk of Putanā when she came as a mother and killed her, stole yogurt and butter and swallowed them in the cowherd village, and went as a pure handsome dwarf to king Mahabali’s sacrifice, asked him, “Give me three feet of land now,” received the land, grew tall and measured the seven worlds and the sky with his marvelous feet. He stays in Sāḷakkirāmam. O heart, let us go and worship that lord of there.

  7. Our matchless lord who is the sky, fire, wind, the mountains, the oceans with waves and all the worlds, and who took the form of a man-lion and split open the chest of Hiraṇyan, terrifying his enemies stays in Sāḷakkirāmam. O heart, let us go there and worship him.

  8. When Shiva, adorned with a garland of skulls and smeared with ashes on his body wandered all over the world as a beggar because Nānmuhan had cursed him and went to our lord and asked him, “You are my father. Remove my curse,” our lord took water precious as nectar as if it were blood from his divine chest, sprinkled it on Shiva’s hands and made Nānmuhan’s skull fall. He stays in Sālakkirāmam surrounded with groves flourishing with sandal trees. O heart! Let us go there and worship him..

  9. O heart, let us go to the temple in Sāḷakkirāmam surrounded with flourishing fields where fish frolic, groves swarm with bees and cool lotuses bloom. Groups of devotees, gods in the sky and Andaṇars skilled in the Vedas, wearing sacred threads on their chests, go there and worship and praise him saying, “O god of gods! Give us your grace!” Let us go there.

  10. Kaliyan, the chief of Thirumangai, composed a musical garland of ten Tamil pāsurams on the god of Sālakkirāmam surrounded with fields where herons eat grain and live. If you want to go and rule the world of the gods where wise people and devotees go, recite the thousand names of him or just babble these Tamil pāsurams again and again.