(The anonymous voice everyone heard.
Kannagi took her second anklet and went
to see her husband’s body. On seeing his
condition, she cried aloud. She heard him
also speak. Later, she wanted to see the
king and went towards the palace.)
PLEASE HERE THIS
After she heard a voice from the sun,
She took the anklet, the second one,
And addressed the women of the city,
To hear about the king’s audacity.
“My husband isn’t a thief.
Is my anklet equal to his life?
When my bad days are vanishing,
An unbearable calamity I’m facing.”
“I’ll see him, this much I’m sure.
The truth he’ll tell, this is also sure.
If I don’t hear, you blame me like this,
That I’m the cause for all his grievances”
THE PEOPLE SYMPATHIZED
To this pathetic cry of Kannagi
All the people of Madurai
They didn’t know what to do,
And they were upset too.
They said, “The loss met
By this maid can’t be offset.
How our king’s rule for justice,
Now bent itself to injustice? “
“How the king of kings,
Who cares for everything.
Let this mishap happen?
What could be the reason? “
“How his victorious spear,
And his cool umbrella-cover,
Broke down and what for?
What evil likely to occur? “
“With a golden anklet in hand
What she liked to demand?
Why this woman is crying?
With her what went wrong? “
SHE SAW HER HUSBAND
People out of pity for her loss,
They blamed the king for this.
Some came with an uproar.
Some showed her lover.
On the floor, she saw him lying.
The evening sun started setting.
The Madurai City raised its noise,
When it heard her sad voice.
That morning only a flower,
She had it from her lover,
But she saw him speechless,
In a pool of blood motionless.
PLEASE SPEAK, PLEASE SPEAK
Kannagi wails:
“Think of my grievance, you must.
Why are you lying in the dust?
Will you not tell me the reason?
How did you allow this happen? “
“This evening, here is none.
Before you, I’m also alone.
Why you’re lying like this?
Will you tell me its cause? “
“Before my endless tears,
In the blood-pool of yours,
Why you’re lying? What for?
You’re a victim of king’s error.”
IS THERE ANY? IS THERE ANY?
“Is there no woman here?
Like me who is born to suffer?
Who can bear this loss like me?
Is there any one like me? “
“Is there no wise man?
Adopt a child who can?
Not born to that man.
Is there one in this town? “
“Is there a God in this town?
Where the justice has fallen?
The king’s rule is broken.
Is there a God in this town? “
YOU HAVE TO REMAIN
Like this, she cried and cried.
His body she then embraced.
He suddenly got up and stood.
Her tears with his hands he wiped.
She wept and fell at his feet.
Her hands on his feet she kept.
“I join my ancestors, ” he said,
“Stay here, ” and then he disappeared.
KANNAGI’S GRIEF
Kannagi cried:
“What a miracle I find?
I’ve never seen this kind?
What is the reason?
Why he didn’t tell me one? “
“The anger that burns me,
It hasn’t till now cooled me.
Let me ask the king the reason,
Why he did this harm to my man? “
SHE WENT TO SEE THE KING
Tears flowed from her eyes.
She remembered her dreams.
She wiped out her tears.
And reached Pandian’s palace.
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