Shloka 26
प्रलय-प्रक्रिया (Pralaya Process) — Guṇa-Withdrawal and Pratisaṃcara
श्रीरवाच एष मे निहित: पादो यो5यमग्नौ प्रतिष्ठित: । चतुर्थ शक्र पादं मे तस्मात् सुनिहितं कुरु
śrīr uvāca: eṣa me nihitaḥ pādo yo ’yam agnau pratiṣṭhitaḥ | caturthaṃ śakra pādaṃ me tasmāt sunihitaṃ kuru ||
シュリー（ラクシュミー）は言った。「これがわが足である。アグニ（火）に置かれ、今やそこに堅く据えられた。ゆえに、シャクラ（インドラ）よ、わが第四の足をよく安住させよ。」
शक्र उवाच
Educational Q&A
Prosperity (Śrī) is not random; it stands on specific ‘supports’ (pādas). For it to remain stable, those supports must be properly established—suggesting that power and wealth endure only when grounded in right order and ethical foundations.
Śrī (Lakṣmī) addresses Indra (Śakra), stating that one of her symbolic ‘feet’ has been set in Agni and instructing him to establish her fourth foot well—continuing a didactic exchange about how prosperity is secured and maintained.