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Rh Great PEDMANABHA, o'er thy cherish'd world
 * The pointed Checra, by thy fingers whirl'd,

Fierce KYTABH shall destroy and MEDHU grim To black despair and deep destruction hurrd.
 * Such views my senses dim,
 * My eyes in darkness swim:

What eye can bear thy blaze, what utt'rance tell Thy deeds with silver trump or may-wreathed shell? Omniscient Spirit, whose all-ruling pow'r
 * Bids from each sense bright emanations beam;
 * Glows in the rainbow, sparkles in the stream.
 * Smiles in the bud, and glistens in the flow'r
 * That crowns each vernal bow'r;

Sighs in the gale, and warbles in the throat
 * Of ev'ry bird, that hails the bloomy spring,
 * Or tells his love in many a liquid note
 * Whilst envious artists touch the rival string,
 * Till rocks and forests ring;

Breathes in rich fragrance from the sandal grove,
 * Or where the precious musk-deer playful rove;
 * In dulcet juice from clust'ring fruit distills,
 * And burns salubrious in the tasteful clove:
 * Soft banks and verd'rous hills
 * Thy present influence fills;

In air, in floods, in caverns, woods and plains; Thy will inspirits all, thy sov'reign MAYA reigns.

Blue crystal vault, and elemental fires,
 * That in th' ethereal fluid blaze and breathe;
 * Thou, tossing main, whose snaky branches wreathe
 * This pensile orb with intertwisted gyres;
 * Mountains, whose radiant spires

Presumptuous rear their summits to the skies,
 * And blend their em'rald hue with sapphire light;
 * Smooth meads and lawns, that glow with varying dyes
 * Of dew-bespangled leaves and blossoms bright.
 * Hence vanish from my sight:

Delusive Pictures! unsubstantial shows!
 * My soul absorb'd One only Being knows,