101 The Breeze

  1. She says, “Our divine god protected the cows and cowherds from the storm by carrying Govardhana mountain. Heroic, he fought with the Rākshasas with his victorious bow and defeated them. Does the breeze blow on me as if it were fire because I think of his heroic deeds? What can I do?”

  2. She says, “The cold wind hurts me as the dark clouds pour down drops of rain. Am I being punished because I long to see the chest and the garlands of the dark god colored like a cloud or the ocean? What can I do?”

  3. She says, “With its rays the moon is angry with me and makes my pale body weak. My conch bangles become loose. What can I do? He has the color of the ocean that rises with white waves. What can I do? His thulasi garland with blooming flowers that drip honey calls to me.”

  4. She says, “He were taken to the clan of the cowherd village and raised there. When Putana came as a mother he drank milk from her breasts and killed her. Do the rays of the moon burn so hot because I think of his heroic deeds?”

  5. She says, “He took the form of a man-lion and split the chest of Hiraṇyan in two. Does the ocean cry in its loneliness because it wants to have the bright moon that the god makes wane to darkness?”

  6. She says, “He went to Lanka, bent his victorious bow and fought with the Rākshasas. On the palm tree, the andril bird in its nest made of lotuses coos and hurts me because I think of the heroic deeds of the lord.”

  7. She says, “Kāma comes carrying five flower arrows, shoots them at me without stopping and makes me suffer. Am I being punished because I saw the lord as dark as a kāyām flower when he came on Garuḍa and fell in love with him?”

  8. She says, “When the thought of the thulasi garland that adorns him entered my heart, it came along with the lovely, cool wind dripping with drops of rain. It will be very hard for my life to be saved.”

  9. She says, “If bees bring and spread the fragrance of the beautiful fresh thulasi garland that devotees use to decorate him, my eyes that are like kendai fish will close in sleep and the pale color of my body will change to the brightness it had before.”

  10. Kaliyan, the famous chief who carries a sword and is praised by all in Thirumangai composed pāsurams on our beautiful-eyed Māyan who went as a messenger for the five Pandavas in the Bharatha war. If devotees learn and recite these pāsurams they will have no trouble in life.