Aandavan oru naal Kadai Virithaan

Dedicated   to great Poet Kannadasan  on his birthday

Aandavan oru naal  Kadai Virithaan

(God one day opened a shop)

By

Kannadasan

Translated by

P.R.Ramachander

(Hear the song, read lyrics in Tamil  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlV9MyoI5e0 )

God one    day opened   a  shop,

And he kept thousands of  things in it,

He  told the cost as per the  status of the person,

And he told them to buy   according to their needs.

Ladies   came to buy beauty,

Men came    to buy desire,

Leaders    bought fame from there,

Poets bought  lies from there,

Blind  people asked for   eyes to see,

Dumb people asked for  words to speak

Relatives wanted  souls of those who are dead,

And some of them asked cost to go to heaven

Human beings came to buy   everything there,

Whatever price quoted    was given by them,

There were none there    to buy  love,

By giving their   heart as the  cost