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Listening to the poem has much impressed him. Again, he gets a hintnow the coming of the patra is cent-per-cent definite. As does the courtyard get near so does the speed of the patra become slow, and the patra experiences that some special fruition of punya (meritorious karma) preventing his steps move further is attracting towards itself!
Seeing the movement of the patra, becoming alert, filled with reverence the welcome of the atithi begins in neither too slow nor too fast, but in a medium sweet voice: 'Oh svamin! Namostu! Namostu! Namostu! Attra ! Attra ! Attra ! (here, here, here) Tistta! Tistta! Tistta! (stand, stand, stand)'. Thus the words of address, of welcome are repeated twice or thrice; along with this the slow moving kundalas (ear-, rings) of the seth
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