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Victory to Vishnu’s foot! When with its teasing toes it was tickling Lakshmi’s navel, it made her look like Him-with-the-lotus-in-his-navel.*

May the line of hair on Vishnu’s abdomen shelter you against affliction! Since its upper part joins the shri·vatsa tuft of hair, it looks like the shade of the lotus rising from the navel on its long stalk.*

Victory to Vishnu with the horse’s head! He took possession of the Veda that enjoins seven sacrifices as if it were a vina which uses seven strings and sang as sweetly as the horse-faced kinnaras.*

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Victory to the great Boar! He dragged the Earth out of the ocean’s belly, although she had been immersed there for a long time, and with her, like its entrails, the mass of serpents.*

I worship Vishnu in Serpent form, the potter of the universe! On his expansive circle ⋮ wheel of hoods, the Earth appears like an earthen pot.*

Victory to the pole that is the leg of wrathful Chandi! When her lover touches its ⋮ her foot with his head, it appears like the victory column of Kama who defeats all, even Shiva.*