Thou art he that does the acts which Adhyaryus have to do in sacrifices,
Thou art he that is always adored by persons whatever their modes of life,
Thou art devoted to the Brahman,
Thou wanderest amongst the habitations of men in the world (in consequence of Thy being a mendicant),
Thou art he that pervades all beings,
Thou art he that is conversant with truth,
Thou knowest and guidest every heart,
Thou art he that overspreads the whole universe,
Thou art he that collects or stores the good and bad acts of all creatures so as to award them the fruits thereof,
Thou art he that lives during even the night that follows the universal dissolution,
The night here refers to the resulting darkness in the event of dissolution of the universe.
Thou art the protector wielding the bow called Pinaka,
Thou residest in even the daityas that are the marks, at which Thou shootest Thy arrows,
Thou art the author of prosperity,
Thou art the mighty ape Hanuman that aided Visnu, in the incarnation of Rama in his expedition against Ravana,
Thou art the lord of those Ganas that are Thy associates,
Thou art each member of those diverse Ganas,
Thou art he that gladdens all creatures,
Thou art the enhancer of the joys of all, or
Thou art he that takes away the joys previously conferred,
The word nandivardhanah may also mean he that takes away the joys previously conferred.
Thou takest away the sovereignty and prosperity of even such high beings as Indra and others,
Thou art the universal slayer in the form of Death,
Thou art he that resides in the four and sixty Kalas,
Thou art very great,
Thou art the Grandsire,
Thou art the supreme phallic emblem that is adored by both deities and asuras,
Thou art of agreeable and beautiful features,
Thou art he that presides over the variety of evidence and tendencies of action and non-action,
Thou art the lord of vision,
Thou art the lord of yoga (in consequence of Thy withdrawing all the senses into the heart and combing them together in that place),
Thou art he that upholds the Krita and the other ages (by causing them to run ceaselessly),
Thou art the lord of seeds (in consequence of Thy being the giver of the fruits of all acts, good and bad),
Thou art the original cause of such seeds,
Thou actest in the ways that have been pointed out in the scriptures beginning with those that treat of the Soul,
Thou art he in who reside might and the other attributes,
Thou art the Mahabharata and other histories of the kind,
Thou art the treatises called Mimamsa,
Thou art Gautama (the founder of the science of dialectics),
Thou art the author of the great treatise on Grammar that has been named after the Moon,
Thou art he that chastises his foes,
Thou art he whom none can chastise,
Thou art he that is sincere in respect of all his religious acts and observances,
Thou art he that has become obedient to those that are devoted to Thee,
Thou art he that is capable of reducing others to subjection,
Thou art he that foments quarrels among the deities and the asuras,
Thou art he that has created the four and ten worlds (beginning with Bhu),
Thou art the protector and cherisher of all beings commencing from Brahma and ending with the lowest forms of vegetable life (like grass and straw),
Thou art the creator of even the five original elements,
Thou art he that never enjoys anything, or
Thou art always un-attached,
Thou art free from deterioration,
Thou art the highest form of felicity,
Thou art a deity proud of its might,
Thou art Sakra,
Thou art the chastisement that is spoken of in treatises on morality and is inflicted on offenders,
Thou art of the form of that tyranny, which prevails over the world,
Thou art of pure Soul,
Thou art stainless (being above faults of every kind),
Thou art worthy of adoration,
Thou art the world that appears and disappears ceaselessly,
Thou art he, whose grace is of the largest measure,
Thou art he that has good dreams,
Thou art a mirror, in which the universe is reflected,
Thou art he that has subjugated all internal and external foes,
Thou art the maker of the Veda,
Thou art the maker of those declarations that are contained in the Tantras and the Puranas and that are embodied in language that is human,
The language of the Veda is divine. The language of the scriptures is human.
Thou art possessed of great learning,
Thou art the grinder of foes in battle,
Thou art he that resides in the awful clouds that appear at the time of the universal dissolution,
Thou art most terrible (in consequence of dissolution of the universe that Thou bringest about),
