Sudhalahari 6

6

ahni krīḍocitānāṃ sarasiruhalasanmandirāṇāṃ prabhāte prodghāṭya drākkapāṭānyatha kumudagṛhānmudrayanto vimuktān /
siñcantaḥ kiṃ ca bhūmītalamakhilamapi kṣuṇṇakāśmīranīraiḥ pāyāsuḥ śrīsaparyāviracanapaṭavaḥ padmabandhoḥ karā naḥ //

Quickly opening at dawn the doors of the glittering mansions of lotus flowers, suited for day-time sport, and then sealing the vacated abodes of night-lotuses, / and sprinkling the entire surface of the earth with pounded saffron water—may the hands of the friend of the lotus, clever in performing the worship of Lakṣmī, protect us!