Mmgl Part 008-001 - Worry At Maniplallavam Poem by Rajaram Ramachandran

(Manimegalai, who was left alone
in the Manipallavam island, started
crying when she woke up. At that
time one dharma deity appeared.)

OPENED HER EYES

Waves jumped towards seashore.
Conchs ploughed the same shore.
Pearl and coral bits scattered here and there.
Waves rolled sandalwood logs there.

Tall tiger-nail Konrai Tree one
It grew on the slushy portion.
Underneath this tree grew
Lotus and lily flowers a few.

Near that was a deep water tank.
Fresh flowers decorated its bank.
These flowers bees hunted
For their food, as they scented.

A tall but bent Punnai tree,
And short flower bearing trees,
They served like a sunshade.
Cool it was under this shade.

Manimegalai from her sleep
Suddenly she woke up.
There was none there
All around to look for.

A PLACE IN THE GARDEN?

Forgetting dear and near ones,
Under the fate in its final roles,
As if reborn in another place,
Manimegalai felt that place.

A picture of her past place,
It stood before her face.
It was her pure imagination,
That gave her such a vision.

Above the blue ocean,
She saw the morning sun.
This place, she thought,
It was the garden's part.

MY DEAR COME

"Where have you, Sudamadhi, gone?
To me why you gave this pain?
Is this real or a dream, I know not?
I'm afraid; tell me, will you not? "

The painful night passed away.
Madhavi will faint as I'm far away.
Why don't you, Sudamadhi, come here?
Is it an evil plan of the goddess, I fear?

NO HUMAN BEINGS SEEN

O'er the waves seabirds swam.
Birds and animals, in groups, came.
She went round the sea shore
But saw no human trace anywhere.

"OH FATHER, " SHE SAID

Manimegalai cried and cried.
To control herself she tried,
But in her distress she thought
Of her father at that moment.

"Oh father, it's my fate
That drove you out
With Kannagi, my mother,
And you were killed there."

DHARMA DEITY

A Dharma Deity she found,
Who stood above the ground,
On a tall marble platform
In his excellent form.

It was a platform laid
By Buddha, the Lord,
So, o'er it flowers
Fell like rain showers.

The birds never went near
Nor they did any noise there.
Lord's feet made of rubies.
They showed a sign of peace.

There was a battle in that island.
Two kings fought in that land
To take the Deity to their land
But in their attempt they failed.

"Give up your mutual fight.
On this deity we've our right.
Like this Lord Buddha said.
Before her this deity appeared.