శ్రీ ఆదిశేష స్తవమ్ (అనన్త నాగ స్తుతి)

Verses to Adishesha, and the argument in them is grammatical before it is devotional. The word shesha means what is left over, and the third verse turns that into a theology: Shri's lord rests upon Shesha, and everything that moves and does not move is shesha to him — so the serpent's name is offered as the first illustration of the relation between God and everything else. Around that the verses build the image carefully. Ten thousand hoods make a footstool at Vishnu's lotus feet; a thousand hoods light a jewelled hall with the heaps of gems in them; he becomes a throne and then makes a canopy of that same row of hoods; and he turns his own coils into a couch for Madhava to sleep on. The last compares the dark form lying in his lap to the moon at the spring festival.