Verse 18

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In plain words

The poet, to the Lord: O Neṭumāl, who as Vāmana went to Mahābali, spoke [a few childlike] words and measured out and took the land of three strides: grant in your grace that in all my births I may be a servant to your two feet, which strode across the worlds and lack nothing [in beauty], and live without fear [of this worldly life].