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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 12.8.47
tasmai namo bhagavate puruṣāya bhūmne
viśvāya viśva-gurave para-daivatāya
nārāyaṇāya ṛṣaye ca narottamāya
haḿsāya saḿyata-gire nigameśvarāya
SYNONYMS
tasmai — to Him; namaḥ — my obeisances; bhagavate — to the Godhead; puruṣāya — the Supreme Person; bhūmne — the all-pervading one; viśvāya — the all-inclusive manifestation of the universe; viśva-gurave — the spiritual master of the universe; para-daivatāya — the supremely worshipable Deity; nārāyaṇāya — to Lord Nārāyaṇa; ṛṣaye — the sage; ca — and; nara-uttamāya — to the best of human beings; haḿsāya — situated in perfect purity; saḿyata-gire — who has controlled his speech; nigama-īśvarāya — the master of the Vedic scriptures.
TRANSLATION
I offer my humble obeisances to Him, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is the all-pervading and all-inclusive form of the universe, as well as its spiritual master. I bow down to Lord Nārāyaṇa, the supremely worshipable Deity appearing as a sage, and also to the saintly Nara, the best of human beings, who is fixed in perfect goodness, fully in control of his speech, and the propagator of the Vedic literatures.
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