Paśyanty ado rūpam
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.