076 Thirukkaṇṇapuram

  1. O devotees, I have found a way to be saved. Our divine strong-shouldered lord became angry, bent his bow and made the Rākshasas who never tremble in war shiver. He is happy when he sees the doe-like glance of Lakshmi with hair that swarms with bees. He stays in Thirukkaṇṇapuram— let us go to there and worship him.

  2. Our lord who carried a strong bow in his hand and shot arrows and killed all the Rākshasas in southern Lanka and who rode on Garuḍa to fight with strong-armed Māli, making his head roll on the ground, stays in Thirukkaṇṇapuram. Let us go there and worship him.

  3. Our lord who fought with Thādaga, the daughter of a Rākshasa family and killed her when she disturbed the sacrifices of the sages, and protected their sacrifices, and who went to Lanka surrounded by forts and the ocean, fought a terrible war with the king of Lanka, afflicting him, and brought back his vine-waisted wife Sita stays in Thirukkaṇṇapuram. Let us go there and worship him.

  4. When Rāma went to bring back his wife Sita, and shot his arrows at the ocean making Varuṇa the god of the sea come to aid him, the monkeys in the Kishkinda forest built a bridge over the ocean with stones and trees and helped him as the spray from the ocean rose to the sky. Thirumāl who as Rama with the monkey army entered Lanka, the kingdom of the cruel Rākshasa king Ravaṇa, stays in Thirukkaṇṇapuram. Let us go there and worship him.

  5. Our lord, the father of Kāma, is the eon itself. He took the forms of a turtle, a man-lion and a swan to fight with the Asurans and he accepts the sacrifices that Vediyars offer with the recitation of the Vedas. He went to Lanka protected by strong forts and surrounded with high, wave-filled oceans that circle the whole earth and cut off the ten heads and twenty hands of its king Ravaṇa and he stays happily in Thirukkaṇṇapuram—let us go there and worship him.

  6. O innocent heart, do not worry— the results of bad karma will not come to us. Our lord who burned up Lanka in the south, ruled by his enemy Rākshasas, broke the long tusks of the elephant Kuvalayābeeḍam and gave his grace to Vānāsuran, the beloved of Nappinnai stays in Thirukkaṇṇapuram. Let us go there and worship him.

  7. He killed the murderous crocodile that caught the elephant Gajendra when the elephant went to get flowers from a pond blooming with flowers and tender leaves to worship him, and he gave the kingdom of Lanka to Vibhishana the younger brother of ten-headed Ravaṇa, the king of Lanka surrounded with oceans rolling with waves, after shooting his arrow and killing Marisan when he came as a golden deer. He stays in Thirukkaṇṇapuram— let us go there and worship him.

  8. O mind, you are confused— do not be plunged in deep sorrow and suffer. The lord who destroyed the Marudu trees and killed the angry Asuran, fought with seven strong bulls, killed the elephant Kuvalayābeeḍam and the wrestlers sent by Kamsan, and broke the cart when Sakaṭasuran came in that form and killed him stays in Thirukkaṇṇapuram— let us go there and worship him.

  9. The Māyan, the lord of the gods in the sky, carried Govardhana mountain as an umbrella and protected the cows and the cowherds from the storm, killed seven strong-legged bulls to marry the vine-waisted Nappinnai, went as a messenger to the Kauravas for the Pandavas, kicked and broke the cart when Sakaṭasuran appeared in that form and killed him, and threw a calf at the vilam tree and killed two Asurans. Let us go to Thirukkaṇṇapuram and worship him.

  10. Kaliyan, the generous king of Thirumangai in flourishing Thiruvāli, composed ten pāsurams on the lord of Thirukaṇṇapuram surrounded with tall palaces over which dark clouds float. If devotees learn and recite these poems, they will rule this large world as the gods praise them.