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Vishnu Padadi Keshanta Stotram
विष्णुपादादिकेशान्तस्तोत्रम्
Viṣṇupādādikeśāntastotram
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यस्मादाक्रामतो द्यां गरुडमणिशिलाकेतुदण्डायमानात् आश्च्योतन्ती बभासे सुरसरिदमला वैजयन्तीव कान्ता । भूमिष्ठो यस्तथान्यो भुवनगृहबृहत्स्तम्भशोभां दधौ नः पातामेतौ पयोजोदरललिततलौ पङ्कजाक्षस्य पादौ ॥१२॥
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- यस्मादाक्रामतो द्यां गरुडमणिशिलाकेतुदण्डायमानात्
- From which, striding the sky, stretching like a flagstaff on Garuda's jeweled rock,
- आश्च्योतन्ती बभासे सुरसरिदमला वैजयन्तीव कान्ता
- dripping, shone the pure divine river, lovely as the Vaijayanti garland,
- भूमिष्ठो यस्तथान्यो भुवनगृहबृहत्स्तम्भशोभां दधौ नः
- the one on earth, the other, gave us the splendor of a great pillar of the world-house,
- पातामेतौ पयोजोदरललिततलौ पङ्कजाक्षस्य पादौ
- may these two feet of the lotus-eyed one, soft as the lotus-belly, protect us.
One foot strides the sky, the other stands as earth's pillar, and from them flows the pure Ganga of liberation. The lotus-soft feet of the Lord are the two aspects of reality, transcendence and immanence, united in the one Self the devotee seeks.
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