Encyclopaedia of Sanskrit subhāṣitas 299

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aṅgāmodasamocchaladghṛṇipatadbhṛṅgāvalīmālita- sphūrjallañchanasūtragumphitamilannīlotpalaśrīriva /
niryatpādanakhonmukhāṃśuvisarasragdanturaḥ smaryatāṃ mañjuśrīḥ suramuktamañjariśikhāvarṣairivābhyarcitaḥ //

Like the beauty of a clustered blue lotus strung together with a radiant cord bearing marks, adorned with a swarm of bees descending in delight at the fragrance of his body, / jagged with the garland of spreading upward rays from the nails of his emerging feet—may Mañjuśrī be remembered, worshipped as it were by showers of crests of flower-clusters dropped by the gods.