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Himalayas: From Rig Veda to Tamil Poet Bharati- 3 (Post No.13,571)
Himalaya as found in First Chapter of Periya Puranam (Translated by D r T N Ramachandran). I am giving stanzas where the mountain Himalya or Mount Kailas is referred to.
1. HE who is not to be comprehended by any one
For ever abides in the divine peak of the great Kailas
Which is atop the wide, snowy and awesome mountain
That bears on its golden frame white stripes
Like unto those of the holy ash. (11)
2. As the Lord is here enthroned
The triple worlds and the four Vedas
Have come hither to perform endless askesis;
So does it look like Piety’s own congregation. (12)
3. If with all the innumerable regions
As bright and shining leaves, the world is
Wrought into a lustrous liana
The awesome mount will be (like) its white bloom. (13)
4. There resound the chanting of the four lofty Vedas
The strumming of vinas by celestial musicians,
The trumpeting of tuskers as the clouds rumble
And the ever-glorious music of the celestial tuntupis. (14)
5. Behold here numberless billions of chaplets
To adorn the crown of the Lord
Worshipfully held by the immortals of cool skyey realms,
Garlands of golden blooms from the holy Karpaka
And garlands of prayer by saints galore. (15)
6. Billions and billions of Bhootas — small and short –,
Here sing and dance in sheer ecstasy;
These can, if they so desire, usher into existence
The five elements and fill the offices of Gods too. (16)
7. Unable to worship the Lord as the hour is not propitious
Brahma return and stands baffled.
He cannot discern his swan, totally lost
In the pure and white luster of the awesome mountain. (17)
8. He knows not that Vishnu is abiding his time
To adore the feet of Siva decked with white ear-rings;
He beholds in the slope of the dazzlingly white Kailas
A bandicoot — the mount of the Tusker-God –,
Surface up from a cavern.
Deeming that to be the primal boar that this day
Is out to bore the earth to reach the foot
Of the red column of fire now turned white,
Garuda wings his way to it. (18)
9. There dance the heavenly danseuses to the beat
Of muzhavu and the roar of cataracts;
With palms full of melliferous flowers of the divine tree
And with loving minds seeking boons
Indra and other gods ascend the ever-crowded steps
Of the long and lofty way dight with mantapams and vimanas,
Hymning all the while His divine praise. (19)
11. By the grace of the Lord of matted hair, Nandi
Is invested with the office of guarding Kailas;
He is the Chief of the great many who are forehead-eyed,
Four-shouldered and who wear the holy ash on their bodies,
Also the devotees of Lord Siva who rides the Bull
Decked with pinggnakam, and all others too;
He wields in his flowery hands
The sword and the divine cane. (21)
12. The Lord holds an antelope in His (left) hand
And a mazhu in His (right) hand.
His matted hair where courses Ganga, is decked
With the young crescent
And a chaplet of (Konrai) flowers.
By reason of His enthronement here,
The presence of measureless glory
And the flourishing of the sheer purity of truth’s luster,
The wide range of Kailas is like unto the mind divine
Of Anapayan of triumphant parasol white —
The fearless King that wields a righteous scepter. (22)
16. Before them all, gushed forth a growing light
With the great brilliance of a thousand suns;
The great tapaswis pure and others
Who sat encircling the Saint
Marvelling said: “What wonder is this!” (26)
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Stanza Line
1 The mountain referred to is the Himalayas. The golden peak is
suggestive of Siva, and the snow, the stripes of the holy ash on
His divine frame.
3 The world, its demesnes and the Kailas are respectively the creeper,
its leaves and the white bloom.
Read more at: https://shaivam.org/devotees/the-glory-of-the-divine-mountain/#gsc.tab=0
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Here is the last chapter of Periya Puranam
The Puranam of Vellaanai Charukkam
This chapter is about the visit of Sanit Sundarar and Chera king reaching Kailash, abode of Lord Siva in the Himalaya.
They rode on white elephant and horse.
(vellAnai charukkam of periya purANam – Periyapuranam as English poetry)
1. Nampi Aaroorar, the author of the Tiru-th-Tonda-th-Tokai
Which is the original source (of our work),
Made his avatar for the deliverance of the world;
We now proceed to indite, as is known to us,
His ascension to the divine Kailaas of the Lord-Quaffer
Of poison with Kazharitru Arivaar the eyes of whom
Were like unto red lotuses that burgeon in the morn. (4229)
17. In his exceeding ecstasy, he was happily confused;
Then by beat of joyous drums he had it proclaimed thus:
“Behold, my lord is come! The glorious one that rules me
Is come! The Saivite seer of Aaroor is come!
My friend and my lord is come! Behold him
Coming for the deliverance of the whole world!” (4245)
18. He sent for his ministers well-versed in wise works;
To receive the great one, he had the peerless city
Splendorously decorated; then he rode on the elephant
Whence cascaded ichor; to receive him came he
That was born for the deliverance of the Cera race,
Crossing the royal street. (4246)
19. When Van-tondar was about to en_er the bourne of Malai Naadu,
The lord of great armies– Ceramaan perumaan
Of victorious flag, the signum of which was, of yore,
Inscribed on the Himavant–,
Went forth to receive him, and bowed at his feet–
Very like fresh-flown lotus flower,
At this Aaroorar the abode of nectarean scriptures
That do away with all flaws and blemishes–,
Reciprocated the obeisance. (4247)
30. The divine intimation of the decad was to have
The bondage-ridden life on earth snapped; when thus
The devotee sang in exceeding devotion, as the time
Apportioned by the Lord for his separation from the company
Of Siva Ganas at Kailaas came to an end,
Siva, whose throat glows with the hue of the dense venom,
Was pleased to bless him to reach His sacred feet. (4258)
31. The Lord who is concorporate with Himavant’s Daughter,
Seated on the white and victorious Bull in flowery Kailaas
Thick with fragrant and stately trees, graciously bade
Brahma and other Devas thus: “Bring here Our Ooran,
Whose chintai is oned with Us, borne on the celestial tusker.” (4259)
33. As the Prince of Tirunaavaloor (after his worship)
Moved through the entrance where the Devas stood thronging,
They duly received him and spake thus: “Behold the gracious
Act of the Lord of Kailaas whose matted hair is decked
With konrai flowers and the cool Ganga.” This said, they hailed
Him, and subjoined thus: “This indeed is His mandate!”
Thus told, he had nought else to do; he bowed low
To the Lord’s behest, rose up and humbly obeyed it. (4261)
50. Paravaiyaar and Sangkiliyaar of exceeding excellence
Who came to be born on earth, with the snapping
Of their mighty passm, by the grace of the Goddess Uma,
Became Kamalini the soles of whose feet were dyed red
With red silk-cotton, and Anintitai, and were again
Established in the service of the shrine
Of the peerless Himavant’s Daughter. (4278)
53. Ever-crescent is the bliss of Siva; so the servitors
Love the One who alone should be loved;
Their souls soar up to the feet of that One;
The immense glory of the servitors of the Lord-Dancer
Of Ambalam pervades and abides aeviternally
Through all the worlds. (4281)
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Read more at: https://shaivam.org/devotees/the-puranam-of-vellaanai-charukkam/#gsc.tab=0
to be continued………………………………………..
—subham—
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