Mmgl Part 020-002 - Kanchanan's Confusion Poem by Rajaram Ramachandran

More confused was Kanchanan.
"She goes behind a strange man.
Not accepting any words of praise,
But giving him proper advice."

"Perhaps, he may be her lover
So, she wants to stay here."
Like this he mistook her
And became angry with her.

He watched their movement,
In his vengeful excitement,
Hiding himself in a safe corner,
Like cobra releasing its anger.

UDAYAKUMARAN'S MADNESS

The prince paid no heed
To whatever she said.
To him she so appeared
As his girl to be loved.

He thought, "Here she came
In Kayachandigai's name,
Carrying a small bowl,
And giving beggars dole."

"She's still up in my mind.
Now a way I should find,
To catch her at midnight
When none will be at sight."

Stung by the Cupid's arrow,
With madness and sorrow
He started toward his palace
Waiting for the night's chase.

HE CAME AT NIGHT

The town was asleep by midnight.
He started alone as he thought.
As a tiger hunting an elephant,
He slowly reached that spot.

Like a cobra entered its hideout,
He entered the temple gate.
The applied sandalwood paste
It gave good smell from his chest.

KANCHANAN DID THE MURDER

Before the prince's arrival there,
Kanchanan was hiding there.
"For her sake the prince is here."
Thus he expressed his fear.

He followed behind the prince
And cut his shoulder into piece.
At one stroke of his sword.
The prince fell down dead.

THE DEITY STATUE CAUTIONED

Into the temple Kanchanan entered
To catch Kayachandigai by hand,
And take her sky-way to his abode,
But in the middle he was stopped.

The statue said, "Don't proceed.
She's Manimegalai indeed.
She took this shape
Just for her to escape."

KAYACHANDIGAI'S END

The statue continued:

"It was this Manimegalai
Who cured your Kayachandigai
From her hunger disease,
After the twelve years."

"The trespassers returned never
As Goddess Durga came to devour
Those who crossed the Vindhya Mountain
That was her protected jurisdiction."

"When your wife tried to cross
She wasn't allowed to pass.
The Goddess swallowed her
So, this is the end of her."

THE FRUIT OF THE FATE

The statue further continued:

"Oh Kanchanan, feel not for that.
It's the hands of the fate,
That played its defined part
And the prince's life it ate."

"But still for your action
You'll face its reaction.
For the crime you've done
Behind you it'll run."

Kanchanan heard this and flew.
The reaction part he well knew.
Not only had he lost his wife,
But it ended in his gloomy life