ujjvalaveṅkaṭanātha stotram (Radiant Venkateshwara Stotra)

A dense and difficult hymn whose colophon marks it as spoken at Śrīraṅgam, and whose argument is about the relation between two shrines. It opens at Raṅgam, on the island between the Kāverī and the Kanaka, with the god asleep on the serpent and thinking through the means of protecting the world even in sleep; the second verse then has him carry that same thought to the peak of Vṛṣagiri and act on it there. Reading Tirupati as the fulfilment of what was resolved at Śrīraṅgam is a Śrīvaiṣṇava claim made here in verse rather than in commentary. The language is correspondingly ornate, built in long sragdharā lines heavy with compounds — the discus and lotus in the hands that destroyed the demon host with the roar of flame, the sidelong glances sprinkling shoreless floods of love — and its closing verse promises the reciter certain victory over adversaries.