Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.1248
Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c8.1248
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c8.1248
‘Om’ and ‘namaḥ’ are explained in the first thousand and the word Nārāyaṇāya in the second thousand of the composition. The Caramaśloka (the verse of death) is the last utterance of the songster-priest. It is a propagation of the theme of seeking refuge. The individual soul has to seek refuge under the universal soul, unconditionally. This is what is called ‘Prapatti. Dvaya-mantra (the two fold mantra) deals with the aim and the ways for the realisation of that aim. It would be possible only by the help of Lakṣmī Bhagavātī (the goddess Lakṣmī). It is a verse of only two lines.