Saundarya-3-avidyānāmanta-s

The dust of Thy feet is the Island City, wherefrom takes place the luminous sun-rise of spiritual illumination driving away the over-casting darkness of ignorance in the hearts of devotees. It forms the cluster of flower buds, from which gushes forth the nectar of intelligence, enlivening the dull-witted. It is a veritable necklace of wish-yielding gems for the poverty-stricken. And for those immersed in the ocean of Samsara, it becomes their up-lifter like the Tusk of Viṣṇu (which raised the earth from submergence in Pralaya waters when He incarnated as the Cosmic Boar). 3.