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Place on  my head

Your hand  and bless me, oh Lord!

Wars off my sorrow and worry

For this GANU is your servant.                                               .8-131

With this eight-fold prayer

I prostrate myself before ;

My sins (demerits) suffering and poverty

Ward off immediately.                                                             …132

You are the cow and I the calf ;

You are the mother and I the child ;

Do not harbour

Any harsh feelings towards me.                                              …133

You are the sandalwood from Malaygiri³¹

I'm a thorny shrub.

You are the life-giving waters of Godawari,

I, the greatest of sinners.                                                       …134

31. Mountain in mysore famous fot its Sandalwood forests.

If after having your "DARSHAN"

The impurities of my wicked mind remain

Unchanged GURURAYA,

Who will then call you sandalwood ?                                       …135

The proximity of musk ("KAASTURI")

makes even the dust more valuable;

The fragrance of flowers is transmitted

To the thread which ties the garlands.                                   …136

This is the way of the great.

Whosoever they come in touch with,

To him they impart

A part of their greatness.                                                        …137

Sacred ashes, join cloth and the bull,

SHIVA made symbolic parts of himself;

Therefore, these objects

Are praised in all quarters.                                                     …138

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