Narada Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 25
Dhvajāropaṇa and Dhvajāgopaṇa: Procedure, Stotra, and Phala (Merit) of Raising Viṣṇu’s Flag
अन्तरिक्षंतु यन्नाभिर्द्यौर्मूर्द्धा यस्य चैव हि । पादोऽभूद्यस्य पृथिवी तं वन्दे विश्वरुपिणम् ॥ २५ ॥
antarikṣaṃtu yannābhirdyaurmūrddhā yasya caiva hi | pādo'bhūdyasya pṛthivī taṃ vande viśvarupiṇam || 25 ||
I bow to that Lord of the cosmic form—whose navel is the mid-space, whose head is the heaven, and whose foot has become the earth.
Narada (as a devotional utterance within the teaching context)
Vrata: none
Primary Rasa: adbhuta
Secondary Rasa: bhakti
FAQs
It teaches Virāṭ/Viśvarūpa contemplation: seeing heaven, atmosphere, and earth as limbs of the Lord, dissolving separateness and strengthening single-pointed devotion.
By directing the mind to bow to the Lord present as the whole cosmos, it turns ordinary perception into worship (smaraṇa and vandana), a core movement of Vishnu-bhakti.
It aligns with Vedic cosmological mapping used in mantra-artha and ritual visualization (kalpa-style contemplation), though no specific Vedanga technique (like vyākaraṇa or jyotiṣa) is explicitly taught in this verse.