Arunakiri Antati p3.3

p3.3

I saw a great fame everywhere radiant, / saying, 'Guhai Namaccivāya the illustrious!'" / "Are all three of your forehead-eyes asleep, O Śoṇeśa? / Has the battle-axe and trident you grasp been snatched away? / Do you have not the least affection? / Should your devotees all be cursed and perish?" / "If you, O Aruṇeśa, are better than a mother and even better than a sweet father, / will you let this servant suffer pain in this mortal body? / Even if I live a hundred years, will you allow me to die even a little?" / —thus he sang this veṇpā. / "He who had learned no art other than Kannada / was made by him, exalted among those who know Tamil, / to speak veṇpās possessed of admirable excellence! / What will my Hara not do, when he thinks it in his heart?" / —(Guhai Namaccivāyar Purāṇam 14) / "The mountain that the great ascetic Namaccivāyan / worships daily, adorning it with a garland of veṇpā verses." (7) / "The mountain that ripens as a harvest of veṇpā / in the mind of Namaccivāyan in his beloved cave." (14) / "Though this great sage composed / countless verses in veṇṭaḷai meter, / the songs continuous from beginning to end / on the Primal One of Śoṇagiri are only a hundred," / say the authors of the Pulavar Purāṇam. / "Being a nest for three hundred and sixty diseases, / I can no longer bear this perishable body! / O Aruṇeśa, whose matted hair is adorned with water and the waning moon, / remove this birth from this lonely wretch from now on!" / "Taking refuge, we reached the feet of the Father of Śoṇagiri; / we crossed the ocean of the final birth! / We pay no heed to that Lotus-born one who creates; / behold, we pay no heed even to the fierce destroyer who rides the mighty male buffalo!" / Historical Inquiry.