Spgm 073 - If I Am Also A Chaste Woman Poem by Rajaram Ramachandran

Kannagi said:

"With these chaste women
In the famous Pugar Town
I'm proud to have born,
As one more woman."

"If I'm also a chaste woman,
Let me also die with my man,
Not before I destroy this Town,
And reap vengeance of mine."

ALL LISTEN

Kannagi continued:

"All girls, boys, Gods of the sky
And sages, you listen to my cry.
Faultless I'm, so was my lover
But the king silenced him forever."

SHE THREW HER LEFT BREST

The town she circled around.
Three times she went round.
With her hands she cut
And threw her left breast.

THE FIRE GOD CAME

The Fire God came as a Brahmin
He asked, "Oh chaste woman,
Who're not to be killed
From the fire you've called."

DON'T BURN THEM

Kannagi said:

"Cows, sages Brahmins,
Chaste women, old persons,
Children, leave them free
And let not evils go free."

The fire turned serious,
And it became furious.
It burnt the Pandian's city
Showing no mercy or pity.

THE POWER OF CHASTITY

Even the Gods in the Heaven
They couldn't save the queen
Or the king or the soldiers,
Or the elephants and horses.

They were burnt in the fire
The chastity had this power,
To destroy evils whatever,
Which dominates whenever.