ஶ்ரீ விஷ்ணு விஜய ஸ்தோத்ரம்

Fourteen verses from the Padma Purana, spoken by the gods with Vyasa framing them, and built in two halves. The first is a run through the descents — salutation to the one who bore the body of the Fish, to the one who took the form of the Tortoise, to the Man-lion, and again to the Dwarf — with the gods declaring at the outset that they have come for refuge to the one from whose navel-lotus the lotus-born himself arose. The second half turns from the forms to the claim behind them: you alone are the cause of the universe, there is nothing beyond you living or unliving, and whatever has been and whatever will be and whatever is going on now is your form. The closing verse says no greater knowledge has been or will be.