Shloka 48

Gajendra's Deliverance — Power of Remembrance

Devanagari script

कार्यं क्रिया कारणमप्रमेयं हिरण्यबाहुं वरपद्मनाभम् महाबलं वेदनिधिं सुरेशं व3जामि विष्णुं शरणं जनार्दनम्

Transliteration

kāryaṃ kriyā kāraṇamaprameyaṃ hiraṇyabāhuṃ varapadmanābham mahābalaṃ vedanidhiṃ sureśaṃ va3jāmi viṣṇuṃ śaraṇaṃ janārdanam

Translation

I go for refuge to Viṣṇu, Janārdana—who is the effect, the action, and the cause; immeasurable; golden-armed; the excellent lotus-naveled one; of great might; the treasury of the Vedas; and the Lord of the gods.

Speakers

• Unspecified in the provided excerpt; the verse is a devotional stuti addressed to Viṣṇu (speaker likely a narrator or a devotee within the chapter’s frame).

Primary Deities

• Vishnu
• Janardana

Key Themes

• Stuti (praise of Vishnu)
• Viṣṇu as cause-effect-action (cosmic theology)
• Vedic supremacy and Viṣṇu as Veda-source
• Śaraṇāgati (seeking refuge)