स्मृतस्वरूपोऽथ पदमुद्दध्रे स जलान्तरात् ।शिशिरान्ते प्रवृत्तास्यं सरोजमिव माधवः
In plain words
Then, remembering who he was (svarūpa), he lifted his foot up out of the water, as spring (mādhava) at winter's end lifts the lotus whose face has begun to open.