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  • verse 1
    एवं तावत् प्राकृतप्रक्षयान्तेब्राह्मे कल्पे ह्यादिमे लब्धजन्मा ।ब्रह्मा भूयस्त्वत्त एवाप्य वेदान्सृष्टिं चक्रे पूर्वकल्पोपमानाम् ॥1॥
    ēvaṃ tāvat prākṛtaprakṣayāntēbrāhmē kalpē hyādimē labdhajanmā ।brahmā bhūyastvatta ēvāpya vēdānsṛṣṭiṃ chakrē pūrvakalpōpamānām ॥1॥
    meaning

    Thus, O Vaikuntha, at the end of the primordial dissolution, Brahma — born in the first Brahmic Kalpa — received the Vedas again from you and fashioned creation after the model of the previous cycle.

  • verse 2
    सोऽयं चतुर्युगसहस्रमितान्यहानितावन्मिताश्च रजनीर्बहुशो निनाय ।निद्रात्यसौ त्वयि निलीय समं स्वसृष्टै-र्नैमित्तिकप्रलयमाहुरतोऽस्य रात्रिम् ॥2॥
    sō'yaṃ chaturyugasahasramitānyahānitāvanmitāścha rajanīrbahuśō nināya ।nidrātyasau tvayi nilīya samaṃ svasṛṣṭai-rnaimittikapralayamāhuratō'sya rātrim ॥2॥
    meaning

    He has led many days of a thousand chatur-yugas and as many nights; when he sleeps, merging into you along with his creation, they call it the occasional dissolution, his night.

  • verse 3
    अस्मादृशां पुनरहर्मुखकृत्यतुल्यांसृष्टिं करोत्यनुदिनं स भवत्प्रसादात् ।प्राग्ब्राह्मकल्पजनुषां च परायुषां तुसुप्तप्रबोधनसमास्ति तदाऽपि सृष्टिः ॥3॥
    asmādṛśāṃ punaraharmukhakṛtyatulyāṃsṛṣṭiṃ karōtyanudinaṃ sa bhavatprasādāt ।prāgbrāhmakalpajanuṣāṃ cha parāyuṣāṃ tusuptaprabōdhanasamāsti tadā'pi sṛṣṭiḥ ॥3॥
    meaning

    Daily, by your grace, he performs a creation equivalent to his morning tasks; and at the end of the lifespan of those born in earlier Brahma-kalpas there is likewise a creation equal to awakening from sleep.

  • verse 4
    पञ्चाशदब्दमधुना स्ववयोर्धरूप-मेकं परार्धमतिवृत्य हि वर्ततेऽसौ ।तत्रान्त्यरात्रिजनितान् कथयामि भूमन्पश्चाद्दिनावतरणे च भवद्विलासान् ॥4॥
    pañchāśadabdamadhunā svavayōrdharūpa-mēkaṃ parārdhamativṛtya hi vartatē'sau ।tatrāntyarātrijanitān kathayāmi bhūmanpaśchāddināvataraṇē cha bhavadvilāsān ॥4॥
    meaning

    Now he is over fifty years — having passed one half (parardha) of his age — he lives on; I tell, O Vast One, of his final night's events and then of your sports at the rising of the next day.

  • verse 5
    दिनावसानेऽथ सरोजयोनिःसुषुप्तिकामस्त्वयि सन्निलिल्ये ।जगन्ति च त्वज्जठरं समीयु-स्तदेदमेकार्णवमास विश्वम् ॥5॥
    dināvasānē'tha sarōjayōniḥsuṣuptikāmastvayi sannililyē ।jaganti cha tvajjaṭharaṃ samīyu-stadēdamēkārṇavamāsa viśvam ॥5॥
    meaning

    At the day's end the lotus-born (Brahma), wishing to sleep, merged into you; the worlds entered your belly and the universe became a single ocean.

  • verse 6
    तवैव वेषे फणिराजि शेषेजलैकशेषे भुवने स्म शेषे ।आनन्दसान्द्रानुभवस्वरूपःस्वयोगनिद्रापरिमुद्रितात्मा ॥6॥
    tavaiva vēṣē phaṇirāji śēṣējalaikaśēṣē bhuvanē sma śēṣē ।ānandasāndrānubhavasvarūpaḥsvayōganidrāparimudritātmā ॥6॥
    meaning

    In your very form you lay upon Shesha, the serpent-king, alone in the residual waters of the worlds — your nature dense, concentrated bliss, your Self sealed by your own yogic sleep.

  • verse 7
    कालाख्यशक्तिं प्रलयावसानेप्रबोधयेत्यादिशता किलादौ ।त्वया प्रसुप्तं परिसुप्तशक्ति-व्रजेन तत्राखिलजीवधाम्ना ॥7॥
    kālākhyaśaktiṃ pralayāvasānēprabōdhayētyādiśatā kilādau ।tvayā prasuptaṃ parisuptaśakti-vrajēna tatrākhilajīvadhāmnā ॥7॥
    meaning

    At the dissolution's end you decreed in the beginning: 'Let the power called Time awaken' — and you slept, along with all slumbering powers and the abode of every living being.

  • verse 8
    चतुर्युगाणां च सहस्रमेवंत्वयि प्रसुप्ते पुनरद्वितीये ।कालाख्यशक्तिः प्रथमप्रबुद्धाप्राबोधयत्त्वां किल विश्वनाथ ॥8॥
    chaturyugāṇāṃ cha sahasramēvaṃtvayi prasuptē punaradvitīyē ।kālākhyaśaktiḥ prathamaprabuddhāprābōdhayattvāṃ kila viśvanātha ॥8॥
    meaning

    When a thousand chatur-yugas had thus passed and you slept alone, the power called Time, awakening first, woke you, O Lord of the Universe.

  • verse 9
    विबुध्य च त्वं जलगर्भशायिन्विलोक्य लोकानखिलान् प्रलीनान् ।तेष्वेव सूक्ष्मात्मतया निजान्तः -स्थितेषु विश्वेषु ददाथ दृष्टिम् ॥9॥
    vibudhya cha tvaṃ jalagarbhaśāyinvilōkya lōkānakhilān pralīnān ।tēṣvēva sūkṣmātmatayā nijāntaḥ -sthitēṣu viśvēṣu dadātha dṛṣṭim ॥9॥
    meaning

    Awakened, O sleeper in the waters, you beheld all the worlds dissolved, and turned your gaze upon the universes subtly resting within yourself.

  • verse 10
    ततस्त्वदीयादयि नाभिरन्ध्रा-दुदञ्चितं किञ्चन दिव्यपद्मम् ।निलीननिश्शेषपदार्थमाला-सङ्क्षेपरूपं मुकुलायमानम् ॥10॥
    tatastvadīyādayi nābhirandhrā-dudañchitaṃ kiñchana divyapadmam ।nilīnaniśśēṣapadārthamālā-saṅkṣēparūpaṃ mukulāyamānam ॥10॥
    meaning

    Then from the opening of your navel arose a certain divine lotus, the compact form bearing the hidden assemblage of all substances, like a bud.

  • verse 11
    तदेतदम्भोरुहकुड्मलं तेकलेवरात् तोयपथे प्ररूढम् ।बहिर्निरीतं परितः स्फुरद्भिःस्वधामभिर्ध्वान्तमलं न्यकृन्तत् ॥11॥
    tadētadambhōruhakuḍmalaṃ tēkalēvarāt tōyapathē prarūḍham ।bahirnirītaṃ paritaḥ sphuradbhiḥsvadhāmabhirdhvāntamalaṃ nyakṛntat ॥11॥
    meaning

    That lotus-bud of yours, sprung up from your body along the waterway, shining outward with its own rays, cut away the darkness all around.

  • verse 12
    सम्फुल्लपत्रे नितरां विचित्रेतस्मिन् भवद्वीर्यधृते सरोजे ।स पद्मजन्मा विधिराविरासीत्स्वयम्प्रबुद्धाखिलवेदराशिः ॥12॥
    samphullapatrē nitarāṃ vichitrētasmin bhavadvīryadhṛtē sarōjē ।sa padmajanmā vidhirāvirāsītsvayamprabuddhākhilavēdarāśiḥ ॥12॥
    meaning

    On that wondrous lotus, filled with fully-opened petals and held up by your power, was born the lotus-seated Brahma, the creator, in whom the whole treasury of the Vedas spontaneously awoke.

  • verse 13
    अस्मिन् परात्मन् ननु पाद्मकल्पेत्वमित्थमुत्थापितपद्मयोनिः ।अनन्तभूमा मम रोगराशिंनिरुन्धि वातालयवास विष्णो ॥13॥
    asmin parātman nanu pādmakalpētvamitthamutthāpitapadmayōniḥ ।anantabhūmā mama rōgarāśiṃnirundhi vātālayavāsa viṣṇō ॥13॥
    meaning

    In this Padma-kalpa, O Supreme Self, you thus raised up the lotus-born one; O unbounded One dwelling at Guruvayur, restrain my heap of diseases, O Vishnu.

Primary text from vignanam.org