स एष वैष्णवः पादो देवि मध्ये ग्रहोऽस्य यः । नारायणाख्योऽचिंत्यात्मा कारणं जगतः प्रभुः
sa eṣa vaiṣṇavaḥ pādo devi madhye graho'sya yaḥ | nārāyaṇākhyo'ciṃtyātmā kāraṇaṃ jagataḥ prabhuḥ
女神啊,此乃毗湿奴之方;其中央所居之星,即名为那罗延(Nārāyaṇa)者——体性不可思议——为主宰,乃世界之因。
Deductive (Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya context): likely Skanda to Devī/Pārvatī.
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (mandala-quarter: Vaiṣṇava pāda)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī (Pārvatī)
Scene: A sacred mandala of Prabhāsa visualized as the divine body: the Vaiṣṇava quarter with Nārāyaṇa enthroned at the center, radiating causal light into the surrounding kṣetra.
All cosmic organization culminates in the Supreme Lord—Nārāyaṇa—who is the unseen cause and sustaining center.
The verse occurs within Prabhāsa-kṣetra’s māhātmya, presenting the tīrtha within a Vaiṣṇava-inflected cosmic order.
None in this verse; it identifies the Vaiṣṇava quarter and its central governing principle as Nārāyaṇa.
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