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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[DECEMBER, 1905.
"Blessed be thy disc, of divine transcendental splendour which sheds all around its pure light. Blessed be thy conch, which proclaims thy victorious name!"
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Vishnu Chitta saith to the people: →→
"O people, do you desire life? Then come forth. Take up this earth and perfume into your hands. And be one with us. One in all our weal and woe. In our brotherhood there is no place for worldliness. For seven generations we have been faithful Vaishnavas. As Vishnu's devoted servants, we bless him who invaded Lanka and laid it waste!"
"Before you are lost in the eternal solitude of Kaivalya, come forth, and join our brotherhood. Throw away the bonds of caste. Come with us, and chant the holy words Namo Narayandya'. Proclaim the blessings of this gospel in all towns and villages and to all people. Give it freely to high and low. Here we are men, devoted to this holy mission. Let us go on, chanting blessings to our Lord!"
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"He is the Supreme Lord of all the solar systems. The Destroyer of all the enemies of mankind. Vanquisher of the senses. Come forth, each humble servant in his kingdom, and worship his holy feet; and chant his thousand holy names, Leap over your old caste barriers, and sing to him blessings of many years and many years."
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"I, my father, and my father's father, his father, and his father's father, all these, throughout seven generations, have faithfully served him, who is the twilight dusk of Sravana, incarnate as man and lion, and put an end to the enemy. Let us do away with all hindrances to eternal bliss, and hail him with blessings of many years and many years!" 1,
"We hail him with blessings of many years, who wields the ever-revolving ruddy disc of transcendent brilliancy. We are all stamped with the mark of his laminous holy disc on our shoulders. He commanded the disc to eut off the two thousand hands of Banasura, from whose arms poured down the hot red blood in torrents!"
"He provides me with good nourishing rice and clarified butter, and enables me to serve him continually, and gives me with his own hands a costly necklace and a pair of earrings, and covers me with sweet scents. All this he does to purify my soul. And so to him I chant blessings of many years, whose banner bears the emblem of Garuda, the serpent's foe!"
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"We clothe ourselves with yellow garments of silk used by thee. We feed on what is left by thee on thy plate. We bedeck ourselves with the garlands of tulasi and sweet scented flowers, which once decorated thy holy person. Such devoted servants are we, that whatever are thy behests we perform them with willing hearts. We celebrate thy birthday every year in Stavana. We hail thee with blessings of many years, who dancest on the serpent's head!"
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"The very day on which we entered into thy service by a written bond, we obtained salvation. O Lord, our God, as thy servants we gain emancipation, and are raised up with all thy subjects in thy kingdom. Thou didst take birth upon thee on the auspicions day of Rohini, in Madurs of all plenty. Thou, who hast lept into the well of the cobra Kalinga and hast danced on his hoods' we hail with blessings of many years!"
