ध्रुवचर्याकीर्तनं / Dhruva-caryā-kīrtana
Account of Dhruva’s Course and Related Cosmological Ordering
जगत्प्रतापनमृते भास्करं वारितस्करम् / स एष कालश्चाग्निश्च द्वादशात्मा प्रजापतिः
jagatpratāpanamṛte bhāskaraṃ vāritaskaram / sa eṣa kālaścāgniśca dvādaśātmā prajāpatiḥ
Without Bhāskara who warms the world, who could restrain the thief called darkness? He indeed is Time and he is Fire—the twelve-formed Prajāpati.