Mmgl Part 028-003 - What Aravana Said Poem by Rajaram Ramachandran

"About your future events
Didn't you have some hints
As revealed by the Stone Deity.
This Aravana told me one day."

HE WENT TO KANCHI

"Aravana Adigal went to Kanchi.
With Sudamadhi and Madhavi,
As that place was most suitable
To perform all deeds noble."

YOUR DUTY

"The beautiful Kanchi once
Now lost its brilliance,
For failure of monsoon,
And want of adequate rain."

"Many lives died there
Some survivors came here.
Better you now leave here
To feed the rest go there."

CAME TO KANCHI

He remained serene and calm.
She then took leave of him.
With her divine Amudhasurabhi
She flew towards Kanchi.

She saw the pitiable condition
Of the people in starvation.
She went around the fort.
She chose a center to halt.

WORSHIPPED THE TEMPLE

King Killi built a Buddha temple
She went around this temple.
Then she proceeded southwestern
There to take rest in a garden.

A SERVANT TOLD THE KING

"Oh king, the daughter of Kovalan
Who has taken renunciation,
She's now in our temple land
With a divine bowl in her hand."

THE KING WENT TO WORSHIP

The king rushed to the garden.
He met her, with his kith and kin.
"The stone deity's foresight,
It has come true, " he thought.

He asked her, "Oh holy maiden,
Has my righteous rule bent down?
Or, is any holy man at fault?
Or, is any woman's chastity lost? "

"Is it for this reason
Here there's famine?
I don't know what to do?
I did whatever I can do."

MANIPALLAVAM

"Like this when I was confused,
A merciful God before me appeared.
And told, "A maiden handsome
With a divine vessel will come."

"The rain will come with her arrival.
The tanks will then become full.
You make out this place beautiful.
And I made this to look wonderful."

SEAT! TEMPLE!

Manimegalai saw the garden.
It was like Manipallavam garden.
She thought, it was the proper site
To build up the Buddha's seat.

She got this work done,
By the king very soon.
A beautiful temple was built
She entered and worshipped it.

THE FOOD DISTRIBUTION

She invited all to eat food
All came there for the food.
There was a big crowd.
Around her they stood.

The blind, deaf, lame, orphans,
The dumb, sick, ascetics,
The hungry men and lazy men
All assembled near the garden.

In thousands they all came.
They praised her name.
The bowl non-stop fed,
To all sumptuous food.

ARAVANA ADIGAL AND MOTHER

To the charity house of Manimegalai
There came Madhavi and Sudamadhi,
To visit, along with Aravana Adigal,
When she was feeding all the people.

MEGALAI WORSHIPED

Manimegalai welcomed the visitors,
And their feet she then worshipped.
She gave them tasty food
It was so nice and good.

She asked Aravana Adigal,
"Let me hear, by your will,
What all I should learn
In this spiritual line."