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15. kim nirghaathah kim arkah paripathathi dhivah kim samidDhah ourvah

     kimsvith kaarthasvaraadhrih  nanu vidhitham idham vyomavarthmaa garuthmaan

     aaseedhathi aajiheershathi abhipathathi harathi atthi haa thaatha haa amba ithi

     aalaapodhyuktha bhillaakulajaTaraputah paathu nah pathrinaathah

 

May Garuda , whose stomach as filled with the hunter tribe who were shouting when he was seen flying towards them from the sky and picked them up and devoured them, who was first suspected as either the thunder, or the Sun or the fire from the sea or the golden mount Meru and then seen as Garuda, protect us.

The Garuda flew from the sky to the habitation of the hunters, they first  feared that it was the thunder, nirghaatha,  then thought it was the Sun, arka, falling from the sky, , or the fire rising from the sea , samidDhah ayam   ourvah and coming towards them, or the mount Meru which is golden, kaarthasvaraadhri.

Then they saw that it was Garuda and found that he was coming towards them to pick them and devour them and shouted, "he is coming near, aaseedhathi, he wants to pick us, aajiheershathi, he falls on us and harathi carries us off , and eats our people, atthi,  oh mother oh father," etc.

16.Aasrkvyaapthaih asrgbhih dhurupaSamathrshaa Saathanee Saatha dhamshtraa

     kotee lotath karotee vikata katakataaraava ghoraavathaaraa

     bhindhyaath saardham pulindhyaa sapadhi parihrtha brahmakaa jihmagaareh

    udhvellath bhilla palleenigaraNakaraNaa paaraNaa kaaraNaam nah

May  Garuda, the enemy of the serpents, whose  terrible breakfast  consisted of swallowing the slum of the hunters, whose skulls being broken by his canine teeth sounded `katakata,' his unquenchable thirst  quenched buy their blood spilled through his molars, and who spitted out th brahmin along with his huntress wife, cut off  the cause of our suffering.

Garuda was  swallowing the  slum of the hunters who were rolling with fear,, udhvellath, and when he chewed them, their skulls being broken, lotath karotee, by his canine teeth, Saathadhamshtraa,  there was a terrible sound of `kata kata,' which was terrible. The thirst of Garuda could not be quenched by anything else, dhurupasama thrshaa, except the blood  of the hunters which covered al his teeth.

Among the hunters there was a Brahmin who lived with them because he married a huntress and Garuda swallowed him also. But his mother had told him not to eat a Brahmin and when he asked her as to the means of finding out whether one is a Brahmin, she told him that when his mouth feels hot he should know that he had swallowed a Brahmin. Hence he as able to make out the Brahmin and spitted him out .But the brahmin refused  to come out with out his wife and garuda spit them both out.

It is to be noted that Desika  employs all hard consonants to create a scene of horror. Even the word denoting Garuda is chosen accordingly as jihmaga ari., enemy of serpents,  jihmaga meaning a serpent because it moves in a crooked manner.

 

 

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