031 Thiruthevanārthohai Nāngai

  1. Our lord Madhavan stays in Thiruthevanārthohai on the southern bank of the Maṇṇai river where waves dash on the groves blooming with flowers, making pollen fall and float on the water while lined bees sing “thee tena” in the flourishing fields.

  2. Our lord who is everyone and everything, all the three gods and the meaning of the divine Vedas stays in Thiruthevanārthohai, surrounded with beautiful blooming groves dripping with honey where kings with strong armies, conquerers of their enemies, and the gods from the sky come and worship him.

  3. Our lord who is the king of the sky and of the people and creatures of the earth and is within everything stays in Thiruthevanārthohai surrounded with beautiful blooming groves dripping with honey in Nāngai where Maṛaiyoor live, skilled in the wealth of knowledge that is the Vedas.

  4. The place where Indra, the gods in the sky, sages, the four-headed Nānmuhan on a beautiful fragrant lotus, the sun and moon, all join together and worship him saying, “Our father, give us your grace!” is Thiruthevanārthohai in Nāngur, surrounded with fragrant beautiful flourishing groves.

  5. Our highest lord who swallowed the sky, the oceans with rolling waves, all the seven worlds and the ancient hills stays in Thiruthevārthogai in Nāngur where the clear waves of the Maṇṇai river bring shining diamonds and fragrant akil and leave them on its southern bank where heroic people live.

  6. Our highest lord who swallowed the whole world and lay on a banyan leaf when he was a baby and whom the Vedas could not follow and find stays in Thiruthevanārthogai in Nāngai where fish frolic in the large Maṇṇai river and paddy fields flourish on its southern banks.

  7. Our Thirumāl who took the form of a shining lion that never retreats and went to Hiṛanyan and split open his chest with his sharp claws stays in beautiful Thiruthevanarthogai in Nāngai where flowers bloom in the groves and divine, famous Brahmins have an abundant wealth of knowledge of the sastras.

  8. Our lord, mighty as a bull, who broke the strong bow to marry Mythili whose young breasts were held with a band stays in Thiruthevanārthogai in Nāngai surrounded with beautiful blooming groves where divine Vediyars, learned in the Vedas, live.

  9. Our god who fought the rutting elephant Kuvalayābeeḍam, killed it and its mahout and danced on a pot stays in Thiruthevanārthogai in Nāngai surrounded with precious golden walls and groves where shenbaga flowers dripping pollen spread their fragrance.

  10. Kaliyan, the poet with a sharp spear, composed ten Tamil pāsurams on the dark cloud-like divine Kaṇṇan, god of Thiruthevanārthogai in Nāngai surrounded with beautiful groves. If devotees learn and recite these ten pāsurams they will reach lovely Vaikuṇḍam and stay with the gods.