Mmgl Part 022-001 - Imprison Her Poem by Rajaram Ramachandran

(Udayakumaran was killed by Kanchanan.
The women staying at Chakravalam heard this
news. They kept Manimegalai at one secret
spot and told the news to the king in a careful
manner. The king, a man of justice, ordered
his commander to arrange for the funeral
rites of the prince and imprisonment of
Manimegalai.)

KNEW AND HIDDEN

The Sun appeared in the horizon,
Driving away the darkness to run.
Visitors to the Sambapathi temple,
They carried this news to the people.

At Chakravalam, the sages also heard.
They went to Manimegalai and asked,
Whether she knew anything about it?
She narrated everything about it.

They kept her and the prince,
At different secret places,
And they went to the palace
To tell the king about this news.

LONG LIVE THE KING

They reached the tall palace gate.
They got the permission to meet
The king, who received them,
And he paid his respects to them.

They praised, "Oh King long live.
In prosperity let your kingdom live.
Let your scepter rule by justice,
Let there be everlasting peace."

ANCIENT MANY

"Oh King, in this town
It has become common,
For the men of burning lust
To harass women, who're chaste."

"It's there from ancient time
Those men even die for them.
After they lose their heart
In their crazy love, when lost."

FEAR FOR PARASURAMAN

The Virgin Goddess Sambapathi once
She told, Oh King, Go from this place.
And hide yourself in the Podhigai Mountain
As Parasuraman will kill you, it's certain."

"But King Kaandhan was worried
"Who'll save this country, " he queried.
For this, he called his son, Sugandhan.
To a dancing girl he was born."

"Sugandhan was a powerful fighter
Though others took him lighter
For his birth inferior-in-rank
But the king didn't mind his rank."

KING SUGANDHAN

The King Kaandhan said:

"To rule by birth, as you've no right,
With you, Parasuraman will never fight
Blessed by Sage Aghasthyan until I come
You take care of this kingdom."

As Sugandhan ruled this kingdom,
Sungandhi became its name.
For his safety Kaandhan took shelter
Under Sage Aghasthyan thereafter."

SUGANDHAN'S SONS

"A Brahmin woman, Maruthi by name,
After her bath in the River Cauvery came.
At that time King Sugandhan's son
He saw her there coming alone."

"You come with me, " he told her.
It gave a big shock to her.
As there was none near
To come and save her."

THE SORROW OF MARUTHI

"A chaste woman, she felt,
Can never enter other's heart,
As for the sake of such woman
In this world we get the rain."

"Having entered another heart,
She considered herself unfit
To join her husband in holy rites,
As she had lost her rights."

HER SOBS IN THE GHOST CENTER

"With this feeling she went
In the Ghost Center to repent,
And appealed to the deity there
To render proper justice to her."

MARUTHI'S MISTAKE

The deity spoke:

"For a woman her husband is the God.
She can't worship any other God.
If such a chaste woman calls for rain
There'll be a downpour of rain."

"But you've lost this claim
As your pure devotion to him
It's diluted by your other faiths.
You give up those wrong faiths."

THE OFFENDER WAS DESTROYED

"I can punish any offender
When he doesn't surrender
Within seven days of the crime
Till then I can't punish him."

"In your case, King Sugandhan
With his sword, he'll kill his son,
For his unpardonable offence,
And thus he'll restore justice."

The same thing what the deity told
On the seventh day it happened.
The king killed his son,
Who committed the worst sin."

PUBLIC TALKED ABOUT VISAGAI

"There was one Dharmadattan
A young man of the town,
He had his uncle's daughter,
Visagai was the name of her."

"She loved this young man.
Secretly she married this man.
The public who heard
Ill of her they talked."

SHE PRAYED THE STONE DEITY

"Visagai prayed to the deity
Who took on her pity
And confirmed her chastity
Before the men of the city."

VISAGAI IN THE GIRLS'HOSTEL

"The deity vouched my chastity
But the people of this city
They still doubt my action,
So, I need my separation."

"In my next birth, let me be his wife
I'll join the monastery in this life.
To her parents she told this proposal
And then she joined the girls' hostel."