Mb034. Arjuna Gets Pasupatha Poem by Rajaram Ramachandran

MAHABHARATA

"Oh Brother, you're a Kshatriya born
But why you behave not like one.
Vedas like a Brahmin you speak,
And act like a coward and meek."

"By fraud our kingdom,
It was seized by them.
While here you lie low
Minding not our foe."

"By our promise to abide,
How can we all hide?
A trap they have laid
To strengthen their side."

"They'll send spies
To trace and find us,
For us again to pass
Another thirteen years."

"How can Himalayas
Be hidden under grass?
Can Arjuna the famous
Not to be seen like this? "

"It's Kshatriya's duty,
To kill first his enemy.
Let us go and fight,
As a matter of our right."

These words of Bhima,
Didn't pinch Yudhishthira.
He opposed in all fairness
His brother's ideas as useless.

Draupadi in Bhima's support,
She gave her side of report.
Eyes full of tears she wept,
But silence Yudhishthira kept.

"This is no time for a war,
Our success will be how far,
With our stay in this wood,
And no preparations good?

"With stalwarts like Bhisma,
Drona, Karna and Aswatthama,
More strong is Duryodhana's side,
In haste how can we decide? "

Yudhishthira tried this way,
To keep them cool every day.
But they were quite restless,
To hear his advice as baseless.

Under the advice of Sage Vyasa
To Himalayas went Arjuna,
To get new deadly weapons
From Devas of the Heavens.

He reached Indrakila Mountain
Indra, in disguise as a Brahmin,
His father, in fact, from the Heaven,
To test him came there in between.

"Child, this is an abode of peace,
For weapons there is no place.
Why you carry a weapon,
Like bow on your person? "

To this query of Indra,
A reply came from Arjuna.
Weapons what he needed,
To get this he pleaded.

His true identity Indra gave
And told Arjuna, the brave,
"Heavenly riches I shall give,
Weapons why you wish to have? "

"To the forest we were driven,
Cheated we're, we have given
To our enemies our kingdom,
Having lost our true wisdom."

"Our foes we wish to conquer.
We need Weapons and Armour,
Deadly ones from the Heaven,
This is the prayer of your son."

Indra replied Arjuna
For the grace of Siva,
Severe penance to do,
He gave this clue.

He did as Indra told,
Braving the biting cold.
As a hunter Siva came
In front to test him.

Arjuna had an escape narrow.
At a wild boar he shot an arrow.
Also the hunter's arrow flew,
The attacking animal it slew.

With Siva, Arjuna had a row,
And one by one shot his arrow.
Who he was the Lord to know,
He made a grand fight show.

The hunter smiled and stood.
No harm his weapons did.
Arjuna at last became tired.
For a way out he was worried.

The Lord finally revealed.
Told how much He loved,
For all the penance he did,
In a manner splendid.

A powerful weapon Pasupata,
The Lord gave it to Arjuna,
With a warning, it was so deadly,
To destroy the entire world easily.

Malati, the charioteer of Indra,
There he came and took Arjuna
To the kingdom of his father,
In his vehicle faster and faster.
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