Invocation (example) O Mother of Kodungallur, fierce as lightning, Crown of hair like the night of storms, spear flashing—come! You who trample the demon’s pride beneath your sandals, Open your eye on us; grant our fields fruit, our children health.
Refrain (example, sung by chorus) Bharani! Bharani! Mother, stir the drum of night— Bharani! Bharani! Break the sleep of our wounds. Kodungallur Bharani Pattu Lyrics In English
Supplication (example) Hear the midwife’s cry, the widow’s thin-lipped plea— Drive the fever from the child, the rust from the cashew grove. If any oath is false within our house, let truth’s flame burn it clean. Invocation (example) O Mother of Kodungallur, fierce as