ශ්ලෝකඃ
රුචිරකංපිතකුංඩලමංඩලඃ සුචිරමීශ නනර්තිථ පන්නගේ ।
අමරතාඩිතදුංදුභිසුංදරං වියති ගායති දෛවතයෞවතේ ॥1॥
Meaning
රුචිර-කංපිත- - beautifully quivering; කුංඩල-මංඩලඃ - the ear ornaments; සුචිරම්-ඊශ - for long O Lord!; නනර්තිථ පන්නගේ - (Thou) danced on the serpent's (hoods); අමර-තාඩිත- - the gods beat; දුංදුභිඃ-සුංදරම් - the drums sweetly; වියති ගායති - in the skies sang; දෛවත-යෞවතේ - the celestial damsels;
Translation
O Lord! With Thy ear ornaments quivering rhythmically, Thou danced for long on the hoods of the serpent. As the gods in the sky beat the drums, the heavenly damsels sang in accompaniment.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
නමති යද්යදමුෂ්ය ශිරෝ හරේ පරිවිහාය තදුන්නතමුන්නතම් ।
පරිමථන් පදපංකරුහා චිරං ව්යහරථාඃ කරතාලමනෝහරම් ॥2॥
Meaning
නමති යත්-යත්- - drops down that which; අමුෂ්ය ශිරඃ - his (Kaaliya's) head (hoods); හරේ - O Hari!; පරිවිහාය තත්- - leaving that; උන්නතම්-උන්නතම් - the raised raised one; පරිමථන් පද්-පංකරුහා - trampling by Thy feet lotus like; චිරං ව්යහරථාඃ - for long (Thou) played around; කරතාල-මනෝහරම් - clapping beautifully;
Translation
O Hari! Thou played around for long, leaving the drooped down head and jumping on the raised ones. Thus Thou trampled hood after hood with Thy lotus feet. Thou danced around in this manner keeping time with the clapping of hands beautifully.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
ත්වදවභග්නවිභුග්නඵණාගණේ ගලිතශෝණිතශෝණිතපාථසි ।
ඵණිපතාවවසීදති සන්නතාස්තදබලාස්තව මාධව පාදයෝඃ ॥3॥
Meaning
ත්වත්-අවභග්න- - (when) by Thee crushed; විභුග්න-ඵණාගණේ - and so drooping were the many hoods; ගලිත-ශෝණිත- - (when) the flowing blood; ශෝණිත-පාථසි - made red the waters; ඵණිපතෞ-අවසීදති - the serpent king got exhausted,; සන්නතාඃ-තත්-අබලාඃ- - prostrated his wives; තව මාධව පාදයෝඃ - (at) Thy, O Maadhava, two feet;
Translation
The group of hoods were crushed by Thee and were drooping. The blood flowing from them rendered the waters of Yamunaa red. The serpent king was totally exhausted. Thereupon, O Maadhava! His wives prostrated at Thy two feet in all humility.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
අයි පුරෛව චිරාය පරිශ්රුතත්වදනුභාවවිලීනහෘදෝ හි තාඃ ।
මුනිභිරප්යනවාප්යපථෛඃ ස්තවෛර්නුනුවුරීශ භවංතමයංත්රිතම් ॥4॥
Meaning
අයි පුරා-ඒව - O Lord! Even long ago; චිරාය පරිශ්රුත- - for a long time, having well heard of; ත්වත්-අනුභාව- - Thy greatness; විලීන-හෘදඃ හි - with their immersed hearts, indeed,; තාඃ මුනිභිඃ-අපි- - they, by the sages even; අනවාප්ය-පථෛඃ - unattained ways; ස්තවෛඃ-නුනුවුඃ- - with (such) hymns praised; ඊශ - O Lord; භවංතම්-අයංත්රිතම් - Thee, unrestricted;
Translation
O Lord! Long ago, and for a long time the serpent wives had well heard of Thy majestic greatness. And so their minds were absorbed in Thee. Without any restrain, they hailed Thee with hymns of praises of a kind which are beyond the powers of even great sages.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
ඵණිවධූගණභක්තිවිලෝකනප්රවිකසත්කරුණාකුලචේතසා ।
ඵණිපතිර්භවතාऽච්යුත ජීවිතස්ත්වයි සමර්පිතමූර්තිරවානමත් ॥5॥
Meaning
ඵණි-වධූ-ගණ- - the serpent wives'; භක්ති-විලෝකන- - devotion seeing; ප්රවිකසත්-කරුණා- - with overflowing compassion; ආකුල-චේතසා - filling Thy mind; ඵණිපතිඃ-භවතා- - the serpent king by Thee; අච්යුත - O Achyuta!; ජීවිතඃ-ත්වයි - let to live, unto Thee; සමර්පිත-මූර්තිඃ- - surrendering himself; අවානමත් - prostrated;
Translation
O Achyuta! Thy heart was overflowing with compassion on seeing the devotion of the serpent wives. With Thy mind welled with such compassion Thou let the serpent king live, who then surrendering himself unto Thee, prostrated before Thee.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
රමණකං ව්රජ වාරිධිමධ්යගං ඵණිරිපුර්න කරෝති විරෝධිතාම් ।
ඉති භවද්වචනාන්යතිමානයන් ඵණිපතිර්නිරගාදුරගෛඃ සමම් ॥6॥
Meaning
රමණකං ව්රජ - to Ramanaka (island) go; වාරිධි-මධ්යගං - (situated) in the ocean's centre; ඵණි-රිපුඃ-න කරෝති - the enemy of the snakes (Garuda) will not do; විරෝධිතාං ඉති - enmity', thus; භවත්-වචනානි- - Thy words; අතිමානයන්- - respectfully obeying; ඵණපතිඃ-නිරගාත්- - the serpent king departed; උරගෛඃ සමම් - the other serpents along with;
Translation
Thou then told him to go to the Ramanaka island situated in the centre of the ocean. There the enemy of the snakes, Garuda would not do him any harm. Respectfully obeying these words of Thine, the serpent king departed along with the other snakes.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
ඵණිවධූජනදත්තමණිව්රජජ්වලිතහාරදුකූලවිභූෂිතඃ ।
තටගතෛඃ ප්රමදාශ්රුවිමිශ්රිතෛඃ සමගථාඃ ස්වජනෛර්දිවසාවධෞ ॥7॥
Meaning
ඵණිවධූජන- - the serpent wives; දත්ත-මණිව්රජ- - gave (Thee) many gems; ජ්වලිත-හාර- - making resplendent the necklaces; දුකූල-විභූෂිතඃ - and by silk garments adorned; තට-ගතෛඃ - on the banks who were (waiting); ප්රමදාශ්රු-විමිශ්රිතෛඃ - with joyful tears mingling (sight); සමගථාඃ ස්වජනෛඃ- - Thou went with Thy folk; දිවස-අවධෞ - at the day's end (evening);
Translation
The serpent wives gifted Thee many gems, resplendent necklaces and silk garments. Adorned with these, towards evening, Thou joined Thy folk, who were waiting for Thee on the banks with their sights mingled with joyful tears, and went with them.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
නිශි පුනස්තමසා ව්රජමංදිරං ව්රජිතුමක්ෂම ඒව ජනෝත්කරේ ।
ස්වපති තත්ර භවච්චරණාශ්රයේ දවකෘශානුරරුංධ සමංතතඃ ॥8॥
Meaning
නිශි පුනඃ-තමසා - (when) in the night, again because of darkness; ව්රජ-මංදිරං - to the Vraja houses; ව්රජිතුම්-අක්ෂම - to go were unable; ඒව ජනෝත්කරේ - certainly, the group of people; ස්වපති තත්ර - (they) were sleeping there; භවත්-චරණ-ආශ්රයේ - in Thy feets' shelter; දවකෘශානුඃ- - a forest fire; අරුංධ සමංතතඃ - surrounded all around;
Translation
In the darkness of the night the group of people were unable to go back to their houses in Vraja. So they were sleeping there on the banks in the shelter of Thy feet. Just then they were engulfed by a forest fire.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
ප්රබුධිතානථ පාලය පාලයේත්යුදයදාර්තරවාන් පශුපාලකාන් ।
අවිතුමාශු පපාථ මහානලං කිමිහ චිත්රමයං ඛලු තේ මුඛම් ॥9॥
Meaning
ප්රබුධිතාන්-අථ - who were awakened then; පාලය පාලය-ඉති- - save, save us thus; උදයත්-ආර්ත-රවාන් - raising piteous tones; පශුපාලකාන් - the cowherds; අවිතුම්-ආශු - to protect, quickly; පපාථ මහානලම් - (Thou) drank the great fire; කිම්-ඉහ චිත්රම්- - what here is surprising; අයං ඛලු - this (fire) is indeed; තේ මුඛම් - Thy mouth;
Translation
The Gopas were awakened and raised piteous tones of 'save us, save us', in alarm. To quickly protect them, Thou drank in that great fire. What is so surprising in this? Thy mouth, indeed, is fire itself.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
ශිඛිනි වර්ණත ඒව හි පීතතා පරිලසත්යධුනා ක්රියයාऽප්යසෞ ।
ඉති නුතඃ පශුපෛර්මුදිතෛර්විභෝ හර හරේ දුරිතෛඃසහ මේ ගදාන් ॥10॥
Meaning
ශිඛිනි වර්ණතඃ ඒව - in the fire by colour only; හි පීතතා - indeed is yellowness (Peetataa); පරිලසති-අධුනා - it exists now; ක්රියයා-අපි-අසෞ - as an action (Peetataa) also in this (fire); ඉති නුතඃ - thus praised; පශුපෛඃ-මුදිතෛඃ- - by the cowherds (who were) delighted; විභෝ - O All pervading Lord!; හර හරේ - eradicate, O Hari!; දුරිතෛඃ සහ - along with the sins; මේ ගදාන් - my ailments;
Translation
The yellowness 'Peetataa' was only an adjective of fire. By Thy having drunk it, it has also acquired the verb adjective of Peetataa, to be drunk. O All pervading Lord! The delighted cowherds thus praised Thee. O Hari! Deign to eradicate my ailments along with my sins.
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