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insolent on account of his victories over the three worlds.
35.
Incarnating yourself as Rāma, the son of Dasaratha, you cut off all the ten heads of Rāvana who had desired to pollute the feet of Sitā, the daughter of Janaka, with them which he (Rāvana) himself had chopped off as offerings to god Brahman and which had grown again at his favour.
36.
You now assume the two forms of Balarāma (lit. dressed in blue garments) and Kșsna (lit.dressed in yellow garments); the fair complexion of the one is like the newly cut ivory and the dark, like a row of rain-filled clouds.
37.
Does not your body enchant the people - the body dark like collyrium, wearing the Kaustubha gem and Śrīvatsa sign on the chest -- the cynosure of the eyes of all the young and lovely ladies infatuated by you ?
38.
O, Kșsna, (lit. friend of Vijaya, i.e., Arjuna), you are the Lord of the whole universe. You pervade the various movable and immovable objects. You are, certainly, the very root of the tree of the Vedas - the tree whose many branches bear a variety of fruit !
39.
Since you are the shelter of those who have no shelter they know you, O bestower of boons, a never-ending store of compassion. You therefore, let go this demon Bāna. The intoxication of his pride has now vanished like the poison in the Kāliya serpent.
40.
Hari, pleased at heart, then said : O Śiva, having a bull as a sign, stop from praising me. When one thinks
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