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PundarikSsha, salutation untothee, tliou exrellent Puhuras i Salutati'n unto thee, thou the soul of all worlds t Saluta- tidií unto thee, thou the wielder of sharp discus ! Salutation uitto the best of Brahmanas ! to the friend of Brahmanas and óf kine t to Krishna, the benefactor of the world and saluta- tion tó Govihda ! Salutation to liim, who as BrahmS creates the universe and who, being existent all over, preserves jt. Salutation to thee, who dost at the end of Kalpa assume the from of Rudra, and vvho art tri-form. Thou art, Achyuta, the cause'of gods, Yakhas, Asuras, Siddhas, serpents, choristers. dancers, goblins, demons, men, beasts, birds, insects, reptiles, plants, and stones, earth, fire wanter, sky, wind, sound, touch, taste, colour, flavour, mind, intellect, soul, time, and the properties of nature ; and these are all manifestations of thine. Thou art knowledge and ignorance, thou art truth and untruth ; thou art poison and nectar ; thou art the performance and continuance of acts and thou art the actions laid down in the Vedas. Thou art the enjoyer of the fruits of all actions and the means for effecting them. Tlrou, Vishnu, who art all, art the fruit of all acts of piety. Thou art in me, in others and spread all over the vast universe. Thy univers.al manifestation indicates miíjht and goodness. lord. The ascetics me litate upon thee, the priests off«r sacrifice to thee. Thou, identical with progenitors and celestials, re«eivést burnt-offerings and oblacions. The universe is a huge manifestation ofthine ; the world is lesser than that, lord ; and lesser than that are all the subtile elements and elemen- tary being and thy subtlest form is the suhtile principle within them that is called soul. Thou hast in thee a supreme sonl, better than this soul and beyond the percrption of all subtile elements and which cannot be conceived. Glory be (o that Purusottam form of thine. And salutation be to that imperish- eble foi'ní öf thine, lord of gods, which is the sóul tof M creatures, ano'ther manifestation óf thy might and whii'h is the tda<gé <rf all qualities. I bow untp y^at_«ipreme goddts*