Verse 23

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In plain words

Your youth only half-opened, and pride in it holding nothing back; your divine ornaments fling out rays of light — on you, O Goddess, Viṣṇu, Kaiṭabha’s enemy, once meditated. And so he bears the universe: he is the navel of the world.

Close to the Sanskrit

Having meditated of old on you, O Goddess — you whose pride is unrestrained with half-opened youth, casting forth rays by your divine ornaments — the enemy of Kaiṭabha bears the universe, the navel of the world.