श्रीनृसिंहार्तिः (छविकृत)

One of three Sanskrit āratīs to Narasiṃha kept here, distinguished by its opening word and by the poet named at its close. It begins by saying the god's radiance mocks the sun, and then works almost entirely in paired compounds ending in the same syllable — dweller in the ocean of milk, bright as the autumn moon, soft and gentle in his smile, golden-robed, guardian of those who serve his feet, terror of the demons. The second verse is the more interesting one, because it borrows freely from Śiva's iconography and hands it to Viṣṇu: the serpent made into a parasol, Gaṅgā fallen from the foot, the three eyes and their detachment, set beside the discus and the Śārṅga bow. It closes by naming Viṭṭhala as the breaker of becoming, which places the text in the Marathi devotional world even though its language is Sanskrit.