Nigama-kalpataror galitaṃ phalam
Romanized (IAST)
nigama-kalpa-taror galitaṃ phalaṃ śuka-mukhād amṛta-drava-saṃyutam | pibata bhāgavataṃ rasam ālayaṃ muhur aho rasikā bhuvi bhāvukāḥ ||
What it means
Praise for the Bhāgavatam itself: it is the fully ripened fruit fallen from the wish-fulfilling tree of the Vedic scriptures, made sweeter still because it flows from the nectar-filled mouth of the sage Śukadeva. Thoughtful, discerning people on earth are invited to drink this rasa (essence) again and again.
Syllable timings on this page are an estimate: derived from the chant's own guru/laghu (light/heavy syllable) prosody and scaled to this clip's real length, not a frame-exact forced alignment — so the highlight tracks the rhythm closely but may drift slightly from the exact syllable being sung. Each syllable is transliterated independently into Kannada, Devanāgarī, and IAST, matching the three-script display used elsewhere in the project.