The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Viṣṇupādādikeśāntastotram

Verse 11

रेखा लेखादिवन्द्याश्चरणतलगताश्चक्रमत्स्यादिरूपाःस्निग्धाः सूक्ष्माः सुजाता मृदुललिततरक्षौमसूत्रायमाणाः ।दद्युर्नो मङ्गलानि भ्रमरभरजुषा कोमलेनाब्धिजायाःकम्रेणाम्रेड्यमानाः किसलयमृदुना पाणिना चक्रपाणेः ॥

In plain words

On the soles of his feet run the lines — discus, fish, and the rest — and the gods themselves bow to them. Glossy, finely drawn, perfectly formed, they lie there like threads of silk, only softer, only lovelier. And the ocean-born goddess goes over them again and again with her hand: soft, beautiful, tender as a new leaf, with bees settling on it in a swarm. May those lines on the feet of the wielder of the discus give us every blessing.

Close to the Sanskrit

The lines, worthy of the reverence of the gods and their like, resting on the sole of the foot, having the forms of discus and fish and the rest, glossy, fine, perfectly formed, behaving as threads of silk softer and lovelier still — being traced again and again by the soft, beautiful hand of the ocean-born goddess, a hand attended by a throng of bees and tender as a new leaf — may they give us auspicious things: the lines on the foot of the discus-bearer.