086 Thirukkuṛunguḍi

  1. The good-natured god who has with him Shiva wearing a garland of skulls and a tiger skin around his waist stays in Thirukkuṛunguḍi where a heron fledgling climbs on the small branch of a tree, takes a veḷḷiṛa fish from its mother and eats.

  2. Our pure lord resting on Adisesha on the ocean where the waves never cease rolling stays in Thirukkuṛunguḍi where male red-legged swans live with their mates on the beautiful lotuses that drip with honey in cool flourishing fields.

  3. We have found the way to be saved. THIRUMAL O devotees, come and see! Our lord with a dark cloud-color and beautiful eyes who took the form of a boar to save the earth goddess from the underworld stays in Thirukkuṛunguḍi where a heron searches for food in the flourishing paddy fields to take to his beloved red-legged mate.

  4. The heroic god who went to Lanka fought and pierced the chest of the ten-headed Rakshasa Rāvaṇa and cut off his hands - stays in Thirukkuṛunguḍi where bees that make honey swarm night and day in the mandram and kuravam blossoms spread their fragrance everywhere.

  5. The lord who drove the chariot in Bharatha war for the five Pandavas and destroyed the heroic Kaurava kings fighting as they rode their strong elephants - stays in Thirukkuṛunguḍi where parrots with mouths like sweet kovvai fruits speak like beautiful women with eyes that are bright and darkened with kohl.

  6. O devotees, come, take lamps, water, beautiful flowers and fragrances, sprinkle pure water and worship the lord. The ocean-colored god wishes to stay in Thirukkuṛunguḍi where the palaces touch the crescent moon in the sky.

  7. O devotees, if you want to remove the desires that you have for women with vine-like waists, go to Thirukkuṛunguḍi and worship the lord where the mullai buds blooming slowly in the backyard of the houses are as beautiful as the teeth of the women with mouths as sweet as fruits and with beauty like that of Lakshmi.

  8. O friends, take fresh flowers strung together into garlands and go lovingly to Thirukkuṛungudi and worship the highest lord there where male herons with sharp beaks live with their mates in the fields and eat fish from the water while sharp-beaked nārai birds play with their mates.

  9. O devotees, if you want to be rid of the results of your bad karma and the troubles of your lives, carry fresh flowers and worship the lord in Thirukkuṛunguḍi where night and day the lined bees sing and the fragrance of the mullai flowers from the hills spreads everywhere in the mandram.

  10. The good poet Kaliyan composed a musical garland of beautiful pāsurams on the lord of Thirukkuṛunguḍi who shot arrows, destroying Lanka and who killed the angry elephant Kuvalayābeedam with murderous tusks. If devotees learn and sing this musical garland of pāsurams, their karma will disappear.