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O devotees, you join the divine feet of him who swallowed the sky, the vast earth, the eight directions, the wavy ocean and the ancient mountains and rests on the leaf of a branching banyan tree. The Chola king Kochenganan worshiped the lord of Manimādakkoyil in Thirunaṛaiyur where beautiful bees drink honey from shenbaga flowers that spread fragrance and then fly to vakulam flowers and stay there.
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O devotees, you stay sweetly under the feet of the lord, our father who took the form of a fish and swam, jumping as high as a mountain, playing joyfully and saving the world when a terrible flood came at the end of the eon. He stays in Thirunaṛaiyur filled with jewel-studded palaces where the flourishing Ponni river brings jewels, sandal wood and akil and leaves them on the banks of the fields for people of the whole world to have. The Chola king went to the Maṇimāḍam temple there and worshiped the lord.
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O devotees, go and worship him in Thirunaṛaiyur. The oceans are his golden clothes, the wide world is his divine feet, the wind is his strong body, all the directions are his eight necklaces and the sky is his crown. The Chola king, carrying a divine sword, who with his large elephant army fought and conquered his ankleted enemies in Veṇṇai went to the Maṇimāḍam temple in Thirunaṛaiyur filled with jewel-studded palaces and worshiped the lord.
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O devotees, go to Maṇimāḍam and worship the feet of him who went as a man-lion to Hiraṇyan with mountain-like arms, and, terrifying the Asuran with his eyes, split open his chest with his strong sharp claws, making his blood flow out. The Chola king Chenkaṇān who with his elephant army fought in Veṇṇai with mighty enemy kings and destroyed them went to the Maṇimāḍam temple in Thirunaṛaiyur filled with jewel-studded palaces and worshiped the lord.
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O, devotees, you will be his guests if you worship him. In ancient times he measured the three worlds at king Mahabali’s sacrifice. He took the form of a man-lion, split open the chest of Hiṛanyan and sent him to moksha. He stays in Thirunaṛaiyur where the Ponni river falls from the mountains and leaves gold and jewels on its banks as it flows through all the fields and lands of Chola country, the realm of the Tamil Chola king of both the southern and northern lands who went to Manimāḍam temple and worshiped the lord.
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O devotees, he, the matchless one with a unique form, is the three shining worlds and the three gods, Shiva, Nānmuhan and Indra, and you will be saved if you approach him as your refuge. The Chola, king of the southern land and the Kongu country in the west, who carried a spear, conquered the chief of Minnāḍu and ruled the whole world, went to Thirunaṛaiyur filled with jewel-studded palaces and worshiped the lord in the Maṇimāḍam temple.
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O devotees, worship the feet of the lord who drank milk from the breasts of the devil Putanā and killed her, ruled as the king of Dwaraka and played a flute and grazed the cows and made the bangles of the cowherd girls grow loose. He stays in the temple in Thirunaṛiyur where the river Ponni brings large jewels from the mountains and nourishes the land with its water. The Chola king with a bow in his strong hands, ruler of the land where the Kaviri flows, went to the Maṇimāḍam temple filled with jewel-studded palaces and worshiped the lord.
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Worship the feet of the lord, the beloved of Nappinnai whose sweet mouth is as lovely as a murukkam flower. In the Bharatha war he defeated many kings who had destroyed their enemies on the battlefield. The king of the Chola lineage, the ruler of the world and built seventy temples with beautiful towers for the eight-armed Shiva and praised the lord with the Purushasuktham went to Maṇimāḍakkovil in Thirunaṛaiyur rfilled with jewel-studded palaces and worshiped him.
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Hear the greatness of the generous god of rich Srirangam who wears thulasi garlands, is praised by Nānmuhan on a lotus and sages, has a thousand names and is the beloved of Nappinnai. The king Kocholan of Azhunthai city who fought with many horses and chariots and killed the rulers of many kingdoms went to Maṇimāḍakkovil in Thirunaṛaiyur to worship him.
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Kaliyan, the king of Thirumangai who always spoke the truth, composed ten good Tamil pāsurams on lovely-eyed Thirumāl of Thirunaṛaiyur filled with jewel-studded palaces where Vediyars recite the four beautiful Vedas. If devotees recite these sweet pāsurams they will not be frightened by the cruel words of Yama’s messengers and truly they will have the fortune of being the guests of the gods.