ത്രിദേവ കൃത രവി സ്തുതി

Three praises in sequence from the Brāhma Parva of the Bhaviṣya Mahāpurāṇa, spoken by Brahmā, then Śiva, then Viṣṇu, after all three have seen the Sun's form and stood astonished with their eyes wide. Each praises in his own manner. Brahmā salutes in the plain dative — to Bhāskara, to the wheel of time, to the one whose chariot has a single wheel, to wealth and desire and dharma and release in turn — and then falls silent with a glad heart. Rudra's is a litany of jaya, hailing him as swan and as Śambhu, as lord of the planets and lord of time, and asking at the end for a hand held out to one sunk in the ocean of existence. Viṣṇu's is the most striking for what it concedes: Brahmā and I and Rudra were born from you at the beginning of the age, for the world's continuance. He gives him six faces, twenty-four feet and twelve hands.