12. Thiruchchaazhal Q: My Dear ! Don't you see that He irreparably wounded Ayan (Brahma), Anangan (Cupid) Anthakan (god of death) and the Moon? A: Oh You with flowing locks! If my three eyed loving Lord Himself punishes is it not a triumph to the heavenly ones? Chimazhalo! (12:4) Q: My dear ! What do you think about His beheading Thakkan and Echcham and putting an end to the band of devaas who have come there in large numbers? A: Behold! After he had routed the devaas who gathered there, He bestowed grace on them. He graciously gave a new head to Echchan there itself; Chaazhalo! (12:5) Q: My dear! What is the meaning of His standing in the form of fire reaching from the earth that stretched to lower worlds to the skies that Brahma and Maal may not know Him? A: Behold ! Had He not stood reaching from the earth to realms beneath, to the skies, both of them on account of their altercation would never have shed their insolence of self-esteem: Chaazhało! (12:6) 439
