Spgm 079 - The Assured Words Poem by Rajaram Ramachandran

The deity assured:

"So, you listen to my word.
After the mourning period
On the fourteenth day
You'll see his heavenly body."

"In a physical body see him not,
This assurance from me you now got."
So saying, she put off the burning fire
And vanished to her abode thereafter.

KANNAGI WENT AWAY

Kannagi said:

"I had my choice husband
Of what I had in my mind
But a way I couldn't find
To retain him in this land."

"We entered the city one day
By the eastern way
Alone I leave this day
By the western way."

SHE WALKED! WALKED!

Night and day, aimlessly she walked.
Along side the River Vagai she walked
Up and down the rough road she walked.
With the thought of joining him she walked.

At last she reached Neduvel Hill
And she climbed up the hill.
Where Lord Murugan was seated,
For whose command she waited.

UNDER THE SHADE OF NEEM TREE

A neem tree gave her shelter.
She was crying for her partner.
It was on the fourteenth day
An occasion for her to pray.

In praise of her lover she prayed.
The Lords of Heaven also praised.
On her fresh flowers they showered,
This way Kannagi was blessed.

Up the sky, a heavenly chariot took her,
Where Kovalan's soul also joined her.
Kannagi stayed in the minds of those
Who were, to their husbands, too close.

THE END OF MADURAI CHAPTER