Your conduct and the greatness of your noble disposition are known throughout the world and have been glorified in the Vedas and the Agamas. Even the cruel, the perverse, the wicked, the low-minded and the disgraced, the base, the impudent, the godless and the unscrupulous,

- are all received by you as your own when you hear that they have come to you for shelter, if but once they bow to you. You never take their faults to heart, though you see them with your own eyes, and if you but hear of their virtues, you proclaim them in the assembly of the saints.

What other master is so gracious to his servant, who would provide him with all his necessaries himself and, far from reckoning even in a dream what he has done for his servant, would feel heartily vexed at any embarrassment caused to him?

There is no such lord other than yourself – so I declare with arms upraised! Animals dance and parrots attain proficiency in repeating what they have learnt, but this achievement of the parrot depends upon the teacher and the animal’s movements on the dancing-master.

Even so have you corrected your servants and treated them with honour and raised them to be the crest-jewels of holy men. Is there anyone save the Lord of mercy who will persistently maintain his high honour thus?

Whether it was from grief or affection of mere childishness that I came here in defiance of your commands, you in your compassion have taken my insolence in good part (approved of this act of impropriety).

I have seen your feet, the fountain-head of all blessings, and have learnt that my master (yourself) is naturally gracious to me. In this august assembly I have witnessed my good fortune, that I continue to enjoy my mater’s affection in spite of my grievous error.