Gaudavaho

Author(s): Vakpatiraj, Narhari Govind Suru, P L Vaidya, A N Upadhye, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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GAÜDA VAHO (Translation )
Benediction
1. Pay homage, at the very outset, to the Self-born (Brahmā ) residing within the orbit of a lotus and wearing a white sacred thread which was, as if, a fibre of the lotus-stalk extracted while coming out through the belly of Vişņu.
2. Victorious is He ( Brahmā ) who dwells in a lotus with its big seeds lying hidden inside the ring of its pericarp ( Kannia ), looking as if, they are so many worlds (bambhamda treasured up ( nihāņīkaa ) in it.
3. Bow to Him (Brahmā) whose mass of atoms, as it were, later accepted by Him as the substance for the creation of the worlds, stays stored up ) in His residence-lotus, under the guise of its dust-particles (timgicchi).
4. Victorious is He ( Brahmā) for whom the circle (parivādi ) of worlds serves for the purpose of a rosary of crystal beads, revolving (āvattamti) in His hand continuously (to mark the cycle of their creation and destruction ), ever engaged, as He is, in His meditational prayers ( javojjaa ).
5. Bow to the Emergence ( viņiggama) of the NavelLotus ( Brahmā) out of the sprout | kamdala ) of the lotus-bulb in the form of the huge Sesa situated down below, after having broken through the black ( Krşņa-Vişņu ) mud.
6. Victorious is the charming repose ( parisamthia ) of Visnu having the dark shade of a black antelope, on the world's globe, which, flooded with the ( deluge) waters, looked like the orb of the prodigious moon.
7. Victorious is the Man-Lion with His sharp nail-tips enveloped in smoke issuing from the friction of the Demon's chest-bones ( uratthi ), thus appearing as if He had seized in His. clutches a mass of clouds in His roaring fury.
8. Bow to Him (Narasimha ) whose massive hands were withdrawn, finding no other task (vavasāa ) to accomplish, since the Demon had his broad chest torn open by only the tips of His claws.