THE UNFAILING POWER

"Choice is yours; name it and be gay at the sure prospect of reward,
Your peerless penance deserves to be blessed with a meritorious award
Tell me-do you want an ²alpayushka to please you and manes of thy family, 
Or a ³deergbayushka competent enough to augment the members family?"

"Do you test me O merciful Lord? Can't you grasp my aim of ⁴tapa ardent? Would an ascetic of my age choose any, except that making family famous 
I'm satisfied with an only son fit to lift mankind by acts dear to Omnipotent 
Give me a lovely blossom that hypnotises world with perfume copious."

"Sure he'll but dies in sixteenth year." saying this vanished the divine couple 
That inaugurated a new life for ⁵Marudwati ⁶Mrikand Maharshi-ideal couple 
The hermitage ever flowed thence onwards with ritual of ⁷daivaradhana
And as days passed the region echoed with the holy songs of ⁸Saivaradhana.

Glossary

1) Nothing gives sure refuge except the approached. 
2) One with short period of life. 
3) one with long period of life 
4) Penance. 
5) Wife of great Sage Mrikand. 
6) A great Saivate Sage. 
7) Worship of God. 

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