Classic Poem

Those who show you reverence you favor at once
and you dismiss the words of those who malign other men.
If you see evil done and are convinced it is evil,
you search out fitting penalties and impose them as is right.
If the guilty come, repent at your feet, and stand there in your presence,
you lighten your punishments and esteem them more than before.
Like a rainbow is the garland that hangs down against your chest
no warriors can confront, confronted only by your women
who live faultless lives and are endlessly gracious to guests,
giving them rice, fragrant with seasoning, bountiful, sweeter than amrta!
Your actions trail no regrets! Your glory shines into the distances!
Great ruler of the city of Neytalankanal!
I have come this far to see you with my desire to praise your many virtues.