012 Thiruyevvuḷ

  1. When the Rākshasa king of Lanka came as a sage in orange clothes and took Sita the wife of Rama to Lanka, our Nambi went to Lanka, fought with its king, destroyed it and brought his wife Sita back. The beautiful cowherd women with round bamboo-like arms scolded him saying, “You stole our butter and ate it. You are a thief.” He rests on a snake bed on the ocean in Thiruyevvuḷ.

  2. When the Rākshasa king loved Rama’s beautiful wife Sita and took her to Lanka, our father, our dear lord went to Lanka, shot his arrows, and fought a cruel war with their king Ravana, making his faultless ten heads crowned with golden crowns fall to the earth. He rests on his snake bed on the ocean in Thiruyevvuḷ.

  3. When Rama sent Hanuman to Lanka as a messenger and Rāvaṇa did not send Sita back, he became enraged at the Raksaksas and went to Lanka and destroyed it with his arrows. He went to Duryodhana for the Pandavas and so he is praised by the world as the messenger of Pandavas. He rests on his snake bed on the ocean in Thiruyevvuḷ.

  4. Our Nambi, our father, who was raised as a son by the famous Nandan and fought with seven strong bulls, defeating them to marry Nappinnai who plays with a ball with her soft fingers rests on his snake bed on the ocean in Thiruyevvuḷ.

  5. The lotus-eyed Kaṇṇan, who swallowed all the seven worlds at the end of the eon and lay as a baby on a banyan leaf for many ages, rests on his snake bed on the ocean in Thiruyevvuḷ where bees with blue wings drink honey from neytal flowers and live on cool fields surrounded with fragrant groves.

  6. The lord whom devotees and sages joined together and praised saying, “O Nambi, we worship you. You are our ancient one. You have beautiful eyes. You are the three-eyed Shiva himself!” rests on the snake bed on the ocean in Thiruyevvuḷ.

  7. Our father, creator of Nānmuhan on the lotus on his navel, is the moon, water, sky, fire and wind, and is praised by the Sama Veda. The lord who keeps in his body Shiva who has matted hair where the Ganges flows and wears kondrai garlands swarming with bees rests on a snake bed on the ocean in Thiruyevvuḷ.

  8. The highest matchless king of the gods is all the three gods, pure, virtuous, a sage, unique, remote and colored like a kāyām flower. The lord who is sweet to all his devotees and taught the Vedas to the sages rests on the snake bed on the ocean in Thiruyevvuḷ.

  9. The dark-colored god, shining like a diamond, who embraces on his chest the beautiful Lakshmi who has soft fingers and plays with a ball is the god of the gods in the sky and the king of the gods Indra. He rests on the snake bed on the ocean in Thiruyevvuḷ.

  10. Kaliyan the king of Thirumangai surrounded with flourishing fields swarming with bees composed a garland of ten beautiful Tamil pāsurams on the god who rests on the ocean and is worshiped in Thiruyevvuḷ by devotees who carry flowers garlands. If devotees learn and recite these pāsurams, they will rule this earth and they will go to the world of the gods and rule there. This is a promise.