ādiśaṅkaraviracita śrī viṣṇuṣaṭpadī (closing verse)
nārāyaṇa karuṇāmaya śaraṇaṃ
karavāṇi tāvakau caraṇau |
iti ṣaṭpadī madīye
vadanasaroje sadā vasatu ||
Re-ordered Word-by-word meaning
nārāyaṇa - Oh Narayana!
karuṇāmaya - One full of compassion!
tāvakau caraṇau - to your lotus feet
karavāṇi śaraṇaṃ - I shall bow down
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iti ṣaṭpadī - May These six words
madīye vadanasaroje - in my lotus face/mouth
sadā vasatu - dwell always !
The ṣaṭpadī ends with this prayer that I may utter these six words always. It has a second meaning, owing to clever Samskrita construction, that these six words are like a bee (shatpadi also means a six-legged creature!), and may that bee always dwell inside the lotus called my mouth. The mouth gets sanctified into a lotus by the utterance of these six words of prayer, and the prayer buzzes like a bee constantly in my mouth!
Glory to Shankara!
Great work!!!! It is very helpful to learn Sanskrit by understanding the each word. Does not matters, However, if slokas posted in Devanagari script will be really makes good.
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