ശ്രീ ദക്ഷിണാസ്യ ഭുജങ്ഗപ്രയാത സ്തുതിഃ

Twenty-one verses in the bhujangaprayata metre — the serpent's glide, four light-heavy-heavy feet to the line, which gives the hymn its running motion — every one ending on the same resolve: I worship the south-facing one always. The first has him carrying his own devotees to the far shore of the sea of becoming with sidelong glances brimming with a flood of compassion, and calls his deeds the thing all the Vedanta sings. The second is about the mantra itself: to one who has come firmly under the sway of that best of mantras, the one of twenty-four syllables, he grants the unfailing knowledge at once. The colophon names the Sringeri Jagadguru Sacchidananda Shivabhinava Nrisimha Bharati as its author.