042 Thirukkuḍalur

  1. Kudalur where beautiful girls with fingers as lovely as kāndal buds wear soft dresses and spread the fragrance from their hair everywhere is the place of the god who does not know his own greatness and went as a messenger for the Pandavas.

  2. Kuḍalur where bees drink sweet fragrant honey and sing kurinji songs is the place of the beautiful god who fought with the seven humped bulls and married Nappinnai, the daughter of a fisherman.

  3. Kuḍalur where the cheating cranes steal kāyal fish in the fields is the place of the god who ate yogurt when he was a child and now has entered heart of me, his devotee.

  4. Kuḍalur where the kol bees sing and drink honey from the flowers that adorn the hair of the farmers plowing the wet lands is the place of our father who, as if he were Yama, went as a dwarf, took three feet of land from king Mahabali and measured the earth and the sky at the sacrifice of the king.

  5. Kuḍalur where the clouds thunder and kendai fish frolic and glisten in the water in the flourishing fields is the place of the god where devotees praised him as the moon and the shining sun went around him when he grew to the sky at the sacrifice of Mahābali.

  6. Kuḍalur where mangoes fall from their trees everywhere onto mounds of sand is the place of the god who aided Shiva, the destroyer of the sacrifice of Daksha, removing his pain.

  7. Kuḍalur where cool tender jasmine plants grow abundantly and embrace kurundam trees is the place of him who swallowed the world, the mountains and the cool dark oceans.

  8. Kuḍalur where trees with tender coconuts bend down to the earth is where the god of Thiruneermalai stays and stags embrace their lovely does and live happily.

  9. Kuḍalur where a kendai fish goes near a thazhai flower and is frightened that it might be a crane is the place of the matchless lord who came and entered this slave’s heart and melts it with abundant love for him.

  10. Kaiyan composed ten pāsurams in Tamil on Kuḍalur where Kaṇṇan, colored like the ocean or a kāvi flower, stays and shines. If devotees learn and recite these pāsurams the results of their karma will not come to them.