Having only seen Your mouths, fearsome and distorted with tusks, like the fire of the dissolution, the kāla-anala being the fire that burns the worlds at the time of dissolution: having seen the mouths that are like it. I do not know the quarters by the distinction of east and west; I have become bewildered as to the directions, and so I gain no, I find no, ease, no happiness. Therefore be gracious, be well-pleased, O Lord of the gods, O dwelling-place of the world. And the doubt of defeat which I had concerning these has departed. Since.

Seeing your mouths, exceedingly terrible, set, like the world-end fire, on the withdrawal of all, I do not know the quarters, and I gain no comfort. Dwelling-place of the worlds, Lord of the gods, be gracious toward me, who am the great Lord even of the lords Brahma and the rest; act so that I come to my natural state. This is the meaning. Thus, showing that the standing and the activity of the whole world depend on Him, the charioteer of Partha showed to Partha the bringing-down of the burden of the earth, His own intent which He Himself would carry out by the withdrawal of the sons of Dhritarashtra, who stood in the disguise of kingly dress, and of the portions of asuras that had entered into the side of Yudhishthira. And that Partha, having directly beheld the Blessed One's being the creator and the rest, all His lordship, seeing in that very Blessed One, the self of all, the withdrawal of the sons of Dhritarashtra and the rest, though it had not yet come, with the divine eye gained by His grace, spoke this.

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

Madhvacharya does not comment on this verse.