śrī veṅkaṭeśa stotram (Tirupati Balaji Prayer)

A learned hymn signed by Varada, son of the teacher named Śrīveṅkaṭeśa of the Kauśika line, who calls his father a moon risen from that ocean of a family and a treasury of knowledge. It opens not with the god but with Śrī, seated on the lotus and dwelling on the broad chest of the lord of Vṛṣabhādri, unable to bear even a moment's separation — compassion itself, the poem says, come into a body. The second verse states the Śrīvaiṣṇava position exactly: the two feet of the lord of Śeṣa hill are both what is to be attained and the means of attaining it, and our teachers showed them to us out of mercy. The third admits the problem of writing at all, since the eternal words of poets set out to praise a single quality of his and found their speech and mind failing at its limitlessness.