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Paśyanty ado rūpam

vaṃśasthaŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.3.5
Kannada
ಪಶ್ಯನ್ತ್ದೋ ರೂದಭ್ಚಕ್ಷುಷಃ ಹಸ್ಪಾದೋರುಭುಜಾನಾದ್ಭುತಮ್ ಹಸ್ಮೂರ್ಧಶ್ಣಾಕ್ಷಿನಾಸಿಕಮ್ ಹಸ್ಮೌಲ್ಯಮ್ಕುಣ್ಲೋಲ್‍ಸತ್
Devanāgarī
पश्यन्त्दो रूदभ्चक्षुषः हस्पादोरुभुजानाद्भुतम् हस्मूर्धश्णाक्षिनासिकम् हस्मौल्यम्कुण्लोल्‍सत्
Romanized (IAST)
paśyantyado pamadabhracakṣuṣaḥ sahasradorubhunanādbhutam sahasramūrdhaśravaṇākṣisikam sahasramaulyambarakuṇḍalol‍lasat

Romanized (IAST)

paśyanty ado rūpam adabhra-cakṣuṣā sahasra-pādoru-bhujānanādbhutam | sahasra-mūrdha-śravaṇākṣi-nāsikaṃ sahasra-mauly-ambara-kuṇḍalollasat ||

What it means

A description of the cosmic form of the Supreme Person (the viśva-rūpa) as beheld by those with unclouded, expanded vision: an awe-inspiring being with a thousand legs, thighs, arms and faces; a thousand heads, ears, eyes and noses; adorned with a thousand crowns, garments and gleaming earrings -- a vision of the infinite compressed into a single, overwhelming image.

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.