The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Dakṣiṇāmūrtistotram

Verse 16

मुदिताय मुग्धशशिनावतंसिनेभसितावलेपरमणीयमूर्तये ।जगदिन्द्रजालरचनापटीयसेमहसे नमोऽस्तु वटमूलवासिने ॥ १६ ॥

In plain words

To the one brimming with joy, wearing the slender young moon in his hair; whose body, streaked with ash, is lovely for it; who has no rival at staging this whole conjuring trick called the world — to that Light, my bow; to the one seated at the foot of the banyan.

Close to the Sanskrit

To the joyful one, to him crested with the tender moon, to him whose form is made lovely by a smearing of ash, to him most adept at fashioning the world's conjuring-net — to that Light let there be salutation, to the dweller at the banyan's root.