Though we have several daughters

I never felt so much love towards one

My mind is overjoyed and I have today

earned the respect of all the three worlds

 

Sloka:

As Daksha entered the Kalindi waters that washes off one’s sins and took the conch sitting on the lotus leaf it transformed itself into a beautiful girl. Daksha, with unbounded joy, imagines that Siva’s consort has come as his daughter and hands over the baby to his wife.

Sloka:

One morning King Daksha went to bathe in the sacred Yamuna. He was wonder-struck by the beauty of the river.

To see you in a happy mood is what

I always desire, my handsome husband

 

To serve one’s husband is a woman’s duty

I am here to listen to your every wish

 

O lotus-eyed, will the partridge hesitate

when it sees its paramour the moon?

 

Sloka:

One day on seeing his wife who was young, as beautiful as the moon, decked with a necklace studded with jewels all shining like stars, who was in a romantic mood, who radiated fragrance of karimkoovala flowers, who presents the whole world with happiness, and who came near him with a big smile, Daksha spoke thus with great love.

Context

 

This is the third play written by Irayimman Thampi (1783-1856). While his other two plays — Keechakavadham and Uttaraswayamvaram — are based on the Mahabharata, Dakshayagam is based on Mahabhagavatham. 

 

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