Chapter 6
Thirukkannapuram 6 - (தொண்டீர் உய்யும்)
திருக்கண்ணபுரம் 6
The āzhvār declares, "To attain salvation, let us worship Sowriraja Perumal of Thirukannapuram."
நாம் உய்யத் திருக்கண்ணபுரத்து சவுரிராஜப் பெருமாளைத் தொழுவோம் என்கிறார் ஆழ்வார்.
Verses: 1698 to 1707
Grammar: Eṇcīrk Kaḻinediladi Āsiriya Viruththam / எண்சீர்க் கழிநெடிலடி ஆசிரிய விருத்தம்
Recital benefits: Will rule this world surrounded by the wide oceans under a royal umbrella and become gods in the sky
- Verse 1:
1698. 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 Thirukkannapuram— let us go to there and worship him. - Verse 2:
1699. Our lord who carried a strong bow in his hand and shot arrows and killed all the Rākshasas in southern Lankā and who rode on Garudā to fight with strong-armed Māli, making his head roll on the ground, stays in Thirukkannapuram. Let us go there and worship him. - Verse 3:
1700. 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 Lankā surrounded by forts and the ocean, fought a terrible war with the king of Lankā, afflicting him, and brought back his vine-waisted wife Sita stays in Thirukkannapuram. Let us go there and worship him. - Verse 4:
1701. When Rāma went to bring back his wife Sita, and shot his arrows at the ocean making Varuna 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 Rāma with the monkey army entered Lankā, the kingdom of the cruel Rākshasa king Rāvana, stays in Thirukkannapuram. Let us go there and worship him. - Verse 5:
1702. 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 Vedās. He went to Lankā 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 Rāvana and he stays happily in Thirukkannapuram—let us go there and worship him. - Verse 6:
1703. O innocent heart, do not worry— the results of bad karmā will not come to us. Our lord who burned up Lankā in the south, ruled by his enemy Rākshasas, broke the long tusks of the elephant Kuvalayābeedam and gave his grace to Vānāsuran, the beloved of Nappinnai stays in Thirukkannapuram. Let us go there and worship him. - Verse 7:
1704. 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 Lankā to Vibhishanā the younger brother of ten-headed Rāvana, the king of Lankā surrounded with oceans rolling with waves, after shooting his arrow and killing Marisan when he came as a golden deer. He stays in Thirukkannapuram— let us go there and worship him. - Verse 8:
1705. 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 Kuvalayābeedam and the wrestlers sent by Kamsan, and broke the cart when Sakatasuran came in that form and killed him stays in Thirukkannapuram— let us go there and worship him. - Verse 9:
1706. The Māyan, the lord of the gods in the sky, carried Govardhanā 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 Kauravās for the Pāndavās, kicked and broke the cart when Sakatasuran appeared in that form and killed him, and threw a calf at the vilam tree and killed two Asurans. Let us go to Thirukkannapuram and worship him. - Verse 10:
1707. Kaliyan, the generous king of Thirumangai in flourishing Thiruvāli, composed ten pāsurams on the lord of Thirukannapuram 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.