Bhagavata Condensed in the Poetʼs Own Words /197

RY OF CULTURE GOVERN
 
SRIMAD BHAGAVATA
 
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I do not desire life here; of what use

is this elephant-body wrapped inside

and out in darkness. I desire freedom

from that shroud over the light of the

soul, a freedom which is not endangered

by the passage of time."
 
JAYTIN
 
कृति मंत्राल
 
174
 
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स्तोत्रं निशम्य गरुडेन समुह्यमान-

श्चक्रायुधोऽभ्यगमदाशु यतो गजेन्द्रः ॥
 

Hearing (this) praise (of Him), the

Lord, arming Himself with His discus,

hurried on his Garuda to where the king

of the elephants was.
 

 
सोऽन्तस्सरस्युरुबलेन गृहीत आर्तो

दृष्ट्वा गरुत्मति हरिं ख उपात्तचक्रम् ।

उत्क्षिप्य साम्बुजकरं गिरमाह कृच्छ्रान्

नारायणाखिलगुरो भगवन्नमस्ते ॥
 

The elephant, caught within the lake

by the mighty corcodile and distressed,

saw in the sky Lord Hari on Garuda,

with His discus uplifted; lifting his trunk
with a lotus in it, it uttered with great

with a lotus in it, it uttered with great
difficulty the words : Narayana, Father

of all, Lord, obeisance unto you."
 
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