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Vishnu Padadi Keshanta Stotram
विष्णुपादादिकेशान्तस्तोत्रम्
Viṣṇupādādikeśāntastotram
Chant
रेखा लेखादिवन्द्याश्चरणतलगताश्चक्रमत्स्यादिरूपाः स्निग्धाः सूक्ष्माः सुजाता मृदुललिततरक्षौमसूत्रायमाणाः । दद्युर्नो मङ्गलानि भ्रमरभरजुषा कोमलेनाब्धिजायाः कम्रेणाम्रेड्यमानाः किसलयमृदुना पाणिना चक्रपाणेः ॥११॥
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Word breakdown
- रेखा लेखादिवन्द्याश्चरणतलगताश्चक्रमत्स्यादिरूपाः
- Lines on the foot-soles, worshipful like script, shaped as wheel, fish, and other forms,
- स्निग्धाः सूक्ष्माः सुजाता मृदुललिततरक्षौमसूत्रायमाणाः
- smooth, subtle, well-born, softer and more delicate than silk thread,
- दद्युर्नो मङ्गलानि भ्रमरभरजुषा कोमलेनाब्धिजायाः
- may they grant us auspiciousness, massaged by the ocean-born's tender, bee-laden hand,
- कम्रेणाम्रेड्यमानाः किसलयमृदुना पाणिना चक्रपाणेः
- made soft by the lotus-hand of Chakrapani, tender as a shoot.
The marks of wheel and fish on the Lord's feet are signs of the cosmic forms He embodies, soft as silk under Lakshmi's touch. To meditate on the feet is to rest in the subtle ground of being from which all auspicious signs arise.
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