Padukasahasra 32.29

32.29

kathaṅkāraṃ lakśmīkarakamalayogyaṃ nijapadaṃ nidadhyādraṅgeśaḥ kuliśakaṭhine'sminmanasi naḥ |
na cedevaṃ madhye viśati dayayā devi bhavatī nijākāntikṣuṇṇasmaraśaraśikhākaṇṭakatatiḥ ||

How could Raṅgeśa place his own foot, fit for Lakṣmī's lotus hand, / upon this mind of ours, hard as a thunderbolt, / if you, O goddess, did not out of compassion enter in between, / crushing with your own radiance the cluster of thorns that are the tips of Love's arrows?