081 Thirukkaṇṇangudi

  1. The dark ocean-colored god with a conch in his hand and rests on shining Adisesha on the wide ocean rolling with waves and created Nānmuhan on a lotus on his navel- stays in Thirukkaṇṇanguḍi where faultless Vediyars skilled in all the precious arts recite the six Upanishads and the four Vedas and perform the three sacrifices with their divine hands.

  2. When Gajendra, the elephant went to get flowers for the god, a crocodile caught his feet in the pond and he worshiped the lord raising his trunk and asked for help, and our god came, threw his heroic discus, killed the evil crocodile and saved him. The almighty god stays in Thirukkaṇṇanguḍi surrounded by precious palaces with jewel-studded walls where in the flourishing fields kuvalai flowers, blossoming lotuses, lovely kazuneer flowers and neydal flowers bloom.

  3. The almighty god who took the form of a fish and saved the world from the storm at the end of the eon when darkness covered the world and the sky, earth and mountains all plunged into the ocean rolling with waves - stays in Thirukkaṇṇanguḍi where blooming punnai trees, jasmine and alli flowers dripping with honey spread their fragrance and the lovely cool breeze blows everywhere.

  4. The lord who took the form of a boar with strong eyes, sharp white teeth and a body as large as a mountain, brought the earth goddess from the underworld and saved her from an Asuran and drove the chariot for the Pandavas in the battles stays in Thirukkaṇṇanguḍi surrounded by incomparable, ancient palaces where flags fly as the moon shines on them.

  5. The lord who went to the king Mahabali’s sacrifice as a dwarf, asked for three feet of land and as the king gave the land by pouring water on his hands, took a huge form that covered all the directions and measured the earth and the sky with his two feet- stays in Thirukkaṇṇanguḍi where swans sit on the lovely lotuses under the shadow of leaves in the rippling water fanned by the good paddy.

  6. The lord who took the form of Balaraman, and conquered many kings with his mazu weapon, crushed their crowns, made their blood flow and sated his anger stays in Thirukkaṇṇanguḍi where bunches of bananas, groups of tall kamugu and kuravu trees and cool mādhavi creepers bloom in the flourishing groves that embrace the tall beautiful palaces.

  7. When Rāvaṇa, the king of Lanka surrounded with oceans with rolling waves, afflicted the gods in the sky with his valor and conquered them, Rama went there to bring his wife Sita back, bent his bow, fought with Rāvaṇa and made the ten crowned heads of the king of Lanka fall on the earth like the fruits of palm trees. He stays in Thirukkaṇṇanguḍi where flocks of forest peacocks dance and the clouds roar like drums and the lined bees drink honey and sing sweet music.

  8. Our lord who grew high in the sky and measured the world went to the Kauravas’ assembly as a messenger, and made himself a seat and sat on it when Duriyodhana with a snake flag would not give him a place in his assembly. He stays in Thirukkaṇṇanguḍi where the waves of the river bring precious jewels, pearls from bamboo canes that split open, emeralds and diamonds and pile them all in the fields.

  9. The lord Māyan who drove the strong shining chariot for his in-laws in the Bharatha battle and destroyed their enemies and relieved the burden of the earth goddess - stays in Thirukkaṇṇanguḍi where thick madhavi creepers, surapunnai groves and shenbaga flowers bloom and the bees sing “tenna, tenna.”

  10. Kaliyan, the poet with a strong spear, the king of Thirumangai surrounded with mountain-like palaces, composed a garland of ten Tamil pāsurams on the god who went to Lanka with a large ocean-like army of monkeys, and, shooting arrows, burned Lanka and brought back his lovely-waisted wife Sita. If devotees learn and recite these ten pāsurams they will have no troubles in their lives.