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How is it that you, whose greatness is hard to understand even for Druhiṇa and Hara, / are an object of praise for petty poets, O gem-studded sandal of Kaṃsāri? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.9.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.1.9.p1) śrutaprajñāsampanmahitamahimānaḥ katikati stuvanti tvāṃ santaḥ śrutikuharakaṇḍūharagiraḥ | ahaṃ tvalpastadvadiha bahu ca jalpāmi tadapi > How many virtuous ones, their greatness honoured for wealth of learning and wisdom, / whose words remove the itch in the ear cavities \[of scholars\], praise you! / But I, being small, babble much here; nonetheless, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.1.10) tvalpastadvadyadiha tvadāyattaṃ raṅgakṣitiramaṇapādāvani viduḥ || > what little \[good\] is in this is known to depend on you, O foot-protector of the Lord of Raṅgam's realm! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.10.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.1.10.p1) yadeṣa staumi tvāṃ triyugacaraṇatrāyiṇi tato > In that I praise you, O protector of the foot of the Lord of the three ages, from that > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.1.11) yadeṣāṃ mahimnaḥ kā hānistava mama tu sampanniravadhiḥ | śunā līḍhā kāmaṃ bhavatu surasindhurbhagavatī tadeṣā kimbhūtā sa tu sapadi santāparahitaḥ || > what loss of majesty is there to you? But to me there is boundless fortune: / let the sacred celestial river be licked at will by a dog; / what happens to it? He, however, is instantly freed from burning thirst. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.1.12) mitaprekṣālābhakṣaṇapariṇamatpañcaṣapadā maduktistvayyeṣā mahitakavisaṃrambhaviṣaye | na kasyeyaṃ hāsyā haricaraṇadhātri kṣititale muhurvātyādhūte mukhapavanavisphūrjitamiva || > My speech—whose five or six words are produced in an instant due to limited intellect— / directed toward you, an object for the efforts of celebrated poets, / to whom on the earth's surface would it not be laughable, O supporter of Hari's foot, / like a puff of breath from a mouth shaken repeatedly by a whirlwind? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.12.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.1.12.p1) niḥsandehanijāpakarṣaviṣayotkarṣo'pi harṣodaya-pratūhakramabhaktivaibhavabhavadvaiyātyavācālitaḥ | > Although the superiority of the object and my own inferiority are beyond doubt, / made garrulous by audacity born of the majesty of devotion which has obstacles to the rise of joy, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.1.13) pratyūḍha raṅgādhīśapadatravarṇanakṛtārambhairnigumbhairgirāṃ narmāsvādiṣu veṅkaṭeśvarakavirnāsīramāsīdati || > the poet Veṅkaṭeśvara, with arrangements of words that undertake the description of the footwear of the Lord of Raṅgam, / enters the vanguard among those who relish jesting. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.1.14) raṅgakṣmāpatiratnapādu bhavatīṃ tuṣṭūṣato me javā-jjṛmbhantāṃ bhavadīyaśiñjitasudhāsandohasandehadāḥ | ślāghāghūrṇitacandraśekharajaṭājaṅghālagaṅgāpaya-strāsādeśaviśṛṅkhalaprasaraṇotsiktāḥ svayaṃ sūktayaḥ || > O jewel sandal of the Lord of Raṅgam! As I desire to praise you, / may there swiftly expand spontaneously eloquent verses that produce doubt whether they are a flood of nectar that is your chiming, / emboldened with unbridled flow that strikes fear into the swift waters of the Gaṅgā in the matted hair of the moon-crested \[Śiva\] tossed about in admiration! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.14.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.1.14.p1) himavannalasetumadhyabhājāṃ bharatābhyarcitapādukāvataṃsaḥ | > For those dwelling between the Himālaya and Nala's bridge, the crest-ornament is the sandals worshipped by Bharata; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.1.15) himavadacala atapodhanadharmataḥ kavīnāmakhileṣvasmi manoratheṣvabāhyaḥ || > from the nature of the ascetics of the Himālaya mountain, I am not excluded from all the desires of poets. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.1.16) anidamprathamasya śabdarāśerapadaṃ raṅgadhurīṇapāduke tvām | gatabhītirabhiṣṭuvan vimohātparihāsena vinodayāmi nātham || > O sandal of the Sovereign of Raṅgam, praising you without fear out of delusion, / though you are beyond the reach of the beginningless mass of words, / I shall delight the Lord with amusement. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.1.17) vṛttibhirbahuvidhābhirāśritā veṅkaṭeśvarakaveḥ sarasvatī | adya raṅgapatiratnapāduke nartakīva bhavatīṃ niṣevatām || > May the speech of the poet Veṅkaṭeśvara, resorting to various modes, / serve you today like a dancing girl, / O jewel sandal of Raṅgapati! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.1.18) apārakaruṇāmbudhestava khalu prasādādahaṃ vidhātumapi śaknuyāṃ śatasahasrikāṃ saṃhitām | tathāpi haripāduke tava guṇaughaleśasthite-rudāhṛtiriyaṃ bhavediti mitā'pi yuktā stutiḥ || > Indeed, by your grace, an ocean of boundless compassion, / I could even compose a work of a hundred thousand \[verses\]; / nevertheless, O sandal of Hari, this brief praise is fitting, / so that it may be an illustration of a fraction of your multitude of virtues. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.1.19) anukṛtanijanādāṃ sūktimāpādayantī manasi vacasi ca tvaṃ sāvadhānā mama syāḥ | niśamayati yathā'sau nidrayā dūramuktaḥ pariṣadi saha lakṣmyā pāduke raṅganāthaḥ || > Making my eloquent verse imitate your own sound, / may you be attentive in my mind and in my speech, / so that Raṅganātha, completely freed from sleep, / listens in assembly alongside Lakṣmī, O sandal! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.1.20) tvayi vihitā stutireṣā padarakṣiṇi bhavati raṅganāthapade | tadupari kṛtā saparyā namatāmiva nākināṃ śirasi || > This praise offered to you, O footwear, becomes \[an offering\] at the foot of Raṅganātha, / like worship performed upon it rests on the heads of the bowing celestials. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.1.20.p1) iti kavitārkikasiṃhasya sarvatantrasvatantrasya śrīmadveṅkaṭanāthasya śrīmadvedāntācāryasya kṛtiṣu śrīraṅganāthapādukāsahasre prastāvapaddhatiḥ prathamā || > Thus ends the first section, the "Introductory Section", in the Thousand \[Verses\] on the Sandals of Śrī Raṅganātha, composed by the Lion among poets and logicians, master of all systems, the venerable Veṅkaṭanātha, the venerable Vedāntācārya. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.1.20.p2) 2. samākhyāpaddhatiḥ (10) > 2. Section on the Designation (10) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.20.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.1.20.p3) vande viṣṇupadāsaktaṃ tamṛṣiṃ tāṃ ca pādukām | > I bow to that sage devoted to Viṣṇu's feet, and to that sandal, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra~en-mt.1.4) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.1) · Pramāṇa