041 Thirupuḷḷambudanguḍi

  1. The lord who is a dancer, my ruler and the ruler of the whole world, is hard for anyone to know. The lord who went to Mahābali as a dwarf and measured the world and the sky stays happily in beautiful Puḷḷambudanguḍi where surumbu bees swarm around the fragrant flowers, beautiful peacocks dance and bees with lined wings sing.

  2. Our faultless lord, the sweet thief who went as a dwarf to the king Mahabali, cheated him and took the earth and sky and who saved the long-trunked elephant Gajendra when it was caught by a crocodile stays happily in beautiful Puḷḷambudanguḍi where birds searching for food for their nestlings fly to the fertile fields to catch the frolicking kāyal fish.

  3. Our lord Thirumāl who shot his arrows and defeated the king of southern Lanka and the Rākshasas, killed the Asuran Kesi splitting open his mouth when he came as a horse, and who killed the wrestlers when they came as Marudam trees stays happily in beautiful Puḷḷambudanguḍi where, when coconuts fall from the trees into the water, fish jump up and cranes run away in fright in the lovely fields filled with beautiful blossoms.

  4. Our dear god, who fought with the heroic Rakshasa Rāvaṇa, king of Lanka with strong arrows, and cut off his twenty mighty arms, and who carried Govardhana mountain and blocked the storm to save the cows and the cowherds stays happily in beautiful Puḷḷambudanguḍi- filled with strong forts, mounds and beautiful palaces with porches that shine like gold.

  5. Our lord Māyan with a discus in his hand who stole the yogurt, ghee and milk hidden by Yashoda, the dark-haired, large-eyed cowherdess with eyes blackened with kohl, stays happily in beautiful Puḷḷampudanguḍi where cranes with red legs go to the flourishing fields and search for red aral fish to eat and the Vediyars, never telling lies, recite the Vedas.

  6. Our lord Thirumāl who fought and killed the seven angry bulls to marry soft Nappinnai with round arms like bamboo and a waist thin as lightning stays happily in beautiful Puḷḷambudanguḍi where lined bees sing as they swarm around the lotuses blooming in the ponds and the punnai trees shedding golden pollen.

  7. Our chief, our lord who carried Govardhana mountain as an umbrella to protect the cows from the storm, fought with heroic Bānāsuran and cut off his strong arms, and chased off Shiva and the enemy warriors when they came to help the Asuran on the battlefield stays happily in beautiful Puḷḷambudanguḍi surrounded with flourishing fields and lovely neelam flowers that shed honey for the swarms of bees to drink.

  8. Our father who drove the chariot for Arjuna in the Bharatha war and destroyed the heroic Kauravas whose long spears were always smeared with blood, and who filled Nānmuhan’s skull that was stuck to Shiva’s hand with his blood and made it fall stays happily in beautiful Puḷḷambudanguḍi where famous, patient, generous Vediyars perform sacrifices with three fires and recite the Vedas.

  9. Our faultless lord who took the form of a fish, saved the Vedas from the flood and then, as a swan, taught them to the sages when the earth and sky were covered with deep darkness stays happily in beautiful Puḷḷambudanguḍi where the Ponni river with its waves brings nine types of sparkling jewels, pearls from bamboos, chowries and gold and leaves them all on its banks.

  10. Kaliyan, the chief of Thirumangai, as generous as a dark cloud and praised by the learned ones, composed these ten pāsurams on the god, the cowherd, the beloved of Lakshmi seated on a golden lotus who danced on the trembling heads of Kālingan. If devotees learn and recite these ten Tamil pāsurams, they will have no trouble in their lives.