783. Your feet are beautiful as lotuses.
You, the ancient one, crossed the ocean with the help of a monkey army,
fought the Raksasas, shot your cruel arrows and destroyed them.
You begged Mahābali to give you land and took all his land,
measuring the earth and the sky with your feet
so they all belonged to you.
Word by Word (WBW) meaning
(The words may be rearranged to facilitate conversion from poetry to prose (Aṉvayam). Please read the meanings (in black) continuously to form the sentence and understand the simplified meaning based on the Divyārtha Dīpikai for the verse.)
In this profound pāśuram, the Āzhvār reveals a glorious truth about the Lord’s nature. When Sriman Nārāyaṇa descends to protect His devotees and vanquish their foes, He is bound by no single mode of conduct. There are occasions when He wages a perfectly righteous war, as demonstrated by chakravartith thirumagan, the divine son of Emperor