Spgm 072 - Reaping Vengence Poem by Rajaram Ramachandran

(Kannagi was surprised at the death
of Pandian. She was still more surprised
at the death of the queen simultaneously.
She was proud that she was born in a
place where chaste women were born.
She vowed to burn the Madurai City and
sends the Fire God to burn the city.)

THE EFFECT OF BAD DEEDS

"Oh queen! I'm the cause
For your sudden demise.
I never knew before
Of your delicate nature."

"Yet, any bad deeds done,
It'll pay in the same coin.
The end for any bad deed
This will be like this indeed."

CHASTE WOMAN

The Vanni Tree one
And the temple kitchen
They were the witness
Once to a chaste lass.

A sand statue in a river,
A girl built as her lover.
She diverted the water
To save it forever.

Adimandhi, the daughter
Of Karikal Valavan, an emperor,
She married Attanathi
The king of Vanchi.

Once he was suddenly carried
By the Cauvery River flood.
Finally his body sunk in the sea.
She went alone there to see.

Non-stop she wept and cried.
The sea heard and pitied.
It gave him back alive,
Happily both to live.

A girl stood near the seashore.
She saw boats towards shore,
But her husband wasn't there.
Then she cried out of fear.

For days, she stood like a stone,
Until her husband's return.
For his safe homecoming
The sea she was thanking.

Once a girl's co-wife's child
In the well it got drowned.
She dropped her own child,
Then both of them she rescued.

After another's wife a man was mad.
To save her modesty she cursed
That her face be turned monkey
And it became that of a monkey.

When her husband returned
Normal her face she turned.
Her chastity was thus saved.
Happily with him she lived.

In another case, a beautiful lass
To fulfill her mother's promise,
The boy of her mother's choice,
She married not raising any voice.