Vishnu Purana — Amsha 5 — Chapter 23
ViP 5 23.1
गार्ग्यं गोष्ठ्यां द्विजं श्यालः षण्ड इत्य् उक्तवान् द्विज यदूनां संनिधौ सर्वे जहसुर् यादवास् ततः ॥
gārgyaṃ goṣṭhyāṃ dvijaṃ śyālaḥ ṣaṇḍa ity uktavān dvija yadūnāṃ saṃnidhau sarve jahasur yādavās tataḥ //
His brother-in-law called the brahmin Gārgya an impotent man in the assembly, O brahmin, in the presence of the Yadus, and then all the Yādavas laughed.
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ViP 5 23.2
ततः कोपसमाविष्टो दक्षिणापथम् एत्य सः सुतम् इच्छंस् तपस् तेपे यदुचक्रभयावहम् ॥
tataḥ kopasamāviṣṭo dakṣiṇāpatham etya saḥ sutam icchaṃs tapas tepe yaducakrabhayāvaham //
Then, filled with anger, he went to the southern country and, desiring a son who would bring terror to the circle of the Yadus, practiced austerity.
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ViP 5 23.3
आराधयन् महादेवं सो ऽयश्चूर्णम् अभक्षयत् ददौ वरं च तुष्टो ऽस्मै वर्षे द्वादशमे हरः ॥
ārādhayan mahādevaṃ so 'yaścūrṇam abhakṣayat dadau varaṃ ca tuṣṭo 'smai varṣe dvādaśame haraḥ //
Propitiating Mahādeva, he ate iron filings; and pleased, Hara granted him a boon in the twelfth year.
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ViP 5 23.4
सभाजयाम् आस च तं यवनेशो ह्य् अनात्मजः तद्योषित्संगमाच् चास्य पुत्रो ऽभूद् अलिसंनिभः ॥
sabhājayām āsa ca taṃ yavaneśo hy anātmajaḥ tadyoṣitsaṃgamāc cāsya putro 'bhūd alisaṃnibhaḥ //
And the lord of the Yavanas, who was without a son, honored him; and from union with that (king's) wife a son was born to him, resembling a bee (in darkness).
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ViP 5 23.5
तं कालयवनं नाम राज्ये स्वे यवनेश्वरः अभिषिच्य वनं यातो वज्राग्रकठिनोरसम् ॥
taṃ kālayavanaṃ nāma rājye sve yavaneśvaraḥ abhiṣicya vanaṃ yāto vajrāgrakaṭhinorasam //
Having consecrated him—named Kālayavana, whose chest was hard as the point of a thunderbolt—in his own kingdom, the lord of the Yavanas went to the forest.
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ViP 5 23.6
स तु वीर्यमदोन्मत्तः पृथिव्यां बलिनो नृपान् पप्रच्छ नारदस् तस्मै कथयाम् आस यादवान् ॥
sa tu vīryamadonmattaḥ pṛthivyāṃ balino nṛpān papraccha nāradas tasmai kathayām āsa yādavān //
But he, intoxicated with the pride of his valor, asked who were the strong kings on earth; Nārada told him of the Yādavas.
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ViP 5 23.7
म्लेच्छकोटिसहस्राणां सहस्रैः सो ऽभिसंवृतः गजाश्वरथसंपन्नैश् चकार परमोद्यमम् ॥
mlecchakoṭisahasrāṇāṃ sahasraiḥ so 'bhisaṃvṛtaḥ gajāśvarathasaṃpannaiś cakāra paramodyamam //
Surrounded by thousands of ten-millions of Mlecchas, furnished with elephants, horses and chariots, he made a supreme effort.
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ViP 5 23.8
प्रययौ चाव्यवच्छिन्नं छिन्नयानो दिने दिने यादवान् प्रति सामर्षो मैत्रेय मथुरां पुरीम् ॥
prayayau cāvyavacchinnaṃ chinnayāno dine dine yādavān prati sāmarṣo maitreya mathurāṃ purīm //
And, making his marches day by day, he advanced without a break, in wrath against the Yādavas, O Maitreya, toward the city of Mathurā.
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ViP 5 23.9
कृष्णो ऽपि चिन्तयाम् आस क्षपितं यादवं बलम् यवनेन रणे गम्यं मागधस्य भविष्यति ॥
kṛṣṇo 'pi cintayām āsa kṣapitaṃ yādavaṃ balam yavanena raṇe gamyaṃ māgadhasya bhaviṣyati //
Kṛṣṇa too reflected: "The Yādava force, worn down by the Yavana in battle, will become accessible to the king of Magadha.
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ViP 5 23.10
मागधेन बलं क्षीणं स कालयवनो बली हन्ता तद् इदम् आयातं यदूनां व्यसनं द्विधा ॥
māgadhena balaṃ kṣīṇaṃ sa kālayavano balī hantā tad idam āyātaṃ yadūnāṃ vyasanaṃ dvidhā //
(Or) the force being diminished by the Māgadha, that mighty Kālayavana will destroy it; so this calamity of the Yadus has come from two sides.
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ViP 5 23.11
तस्माद् दुर्गं करिष्यामि यदूनाम् अरिदुर्जयम् स्त्रियो ऽपि यत्र युध्येयुः किं पुनर् वृष्णिपुंगवाः ॥
tasmād durgaṃ kariṣyāmi yadūnām aridurjayam striyo 'pi yatra yudhyeyuḥ kiṃ punar vṛṣṇipuṃgavāḥ //
Therefore I shall make for the Yadus a fortress hard for enemies to conquer, in which even women could fight—how much more the bulls among the Vṛṣṇis!
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ViP 5 23.12
मयि मत्ते प्रमत्ते वा सुप्ते प्रवसिते तथा यादवाभिभवं दुष्टा मा कुर्वंस् त्व् अरयो ऽधिकाः ॥
mayi matte pramatte vā supte pravasite tathā yādavābhibhavaṃ duṣṭā mā kurvaṃs tv arayo 'dhikāḥ //
And when I am drunk, or heedless, or asleep, or gone abroad, let not the wicked enemies, being superior, work the overthrow of the Yādavas.
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ViP 5 23.13
इति संचिन्त्य गोविन्दो योजनानि महोदधिम् ययाचे द्वादश पुरीं द्वारकां तत्र निर्ममे ॥
iti saṃcintya govindo yojanāni mahodadhim yayāce dvādaśa purīṃ dvārakāṃ tatra nirmame //
Having thus reflected, Govinda asked the great ocean for twelve yojanas, and there he built the city Dvārakā,
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ViP 5 23.14
महोद्यानां महावप्रां तडागशतशोभिताम् प्राकारगृहसंबाधाम् इन्द्रस्येवामरावतीम् ॥
mahodyānāṃ mahāvaprāṃ taḍāgaśataśobhitām prākāragṛhasaṃbādhām indrasyevāmarāvatīm //
with great gardens, great ramparts, adorned with hundreds of ponds, crowded with walls and houses, like Indra's Amarāvatī.
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ViP 5 23.15
मथुरावासिनो लोकांस् तत्रानीय जनार्दनः आसन्ने कालयवने मथुरां च स्वयं ययौ ॥
mathurāvāsino lokāṃs tatrānīya janārdanaḥ āsanne kālayavane mathurāṃ ca svayaṃ yayau //
Having brought the people dwelling in Mathurā there, Janārdana, when Kālayavana was near, himself went to Mathurā.
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ViP 5 23.16
बहिर् आवसिते सैन्ये मथुराया निरायुधः निर्जगाम स गोविन्दो ददृशे यवनेश्वरम् ॥
bahir āvasite sainye mathurāyā nirāyudhaḥ nirjagāma sa govindo dadṛśe yavaneśvaram //
When the army had encamped outside, Govinda went out from Mathurā unarmed, and he saw the lord of the Yavanas.
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ViP 5 23.17
स ज्ञात्वा वासुदेवं तं बाहुप्रहरणो नृपः अनुयातो महायोगिचेतोभिः प्राप्यते न यः ॥
sa jñātvā vāsudevaṃ taṃ bāhupraharaṇo nṛpaḥ anuyāto mahāyogicetobhiḥ prāpyate na yaḥ //
Recognizing him as Vāsudeva, the king, whose weapons were his arms, pursued him who is not attained even by the minds of great yogins.
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ViP 5 23.18
तेनानुयातः कृष्णो ऽपि प्रविवेश महागुहाम् यत्र शेते महावीर्यो मुचुकुन्दो नरेश्वरः ॥
tenānuyātaḥ kṛṣṇo 'pi praviveśa mahāguhām yatra śete mahāvīryo mucukundo nareśvaraḥ //
Pursued by him, Kṛṣṇa entered a great cave, where the king Mucukunda of great valor lay sleeping.
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ViP 5 23.19
सो ऽपि प्रविष्टो यवनो दृष्ट्वा शय्यागतं नरम् पादेन ताडयाम् आस मत्वा कृष्णं सुदुर्मतिः ॥
so 'pi praviṣṭo yavano dṛṣṭvā śayyāgataṃ naram pādena tāḍayām āsa matvā kṛṣṇaṃ sudurmatiḥ //
And the Yavana, having entered, saw the man lying on the bed and, that very foolish one, thinking him Kṛṣṇa, struck him with his foot.
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ViP 5 23.20
दृष्टमात्रश् च तेनासौ जज्वाल यवनो ऽग्निना तत्क्रोधजेन मैत्रेय भस्मीभूतश् च तत्क्षणात् ॥
dṛṣṭamātraś ca tenāsau jajvāla yavano 'gninā tatkrodhajena maitreya bhasmībhūtaś ca tatkṣaṇāt //
And merely by being looked at by him, that Yavana blazed up with fire born of his anger, O Maitreya, and in that instant was reduced to ashes.
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ViP 5 23.21
स हि देवासुरे युद्धे गतो जित्वा महासुरान् निद्रार्तः सुमहत् कालं निद्रां वव्रे वरं सुरान् ॥
sa hi devāsure yuddhe gato jitvā mahāsurān nidrārtaḥ sumahat kālaṃ nidrāṃ vavre varaṃ surān //
For he, having gone to the war of the gods and demons and conquered the great demons, was weary for sleep, and for a very long time chose sleep as his boon from the gods.
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ViP 5 23.22
प्रोक्तश् च देवैः संसुप्तं यस् त्वाम् उत्थापयिष्यति देहजेनाग्निना सद्यः स तु भस्मीभविष्यति ॥
proktaś ca devaiḥ saṃsuptaṃ yas tvām utthāpayiṣyati dehajenāgninā sadyaḥ sa tu bhasmībhaviṣyati //
And it was declared by the gods: "Whoever shall wake you while you sleep, he will at once be reduced to ashes by the fire born of your body."
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ViP 5 23.23
एवं दग्ध्वा स तं पापं दृष्ट्वा च मधुसूदनम् कस् त्वम् इत्य् आह सो ऽप्य् आह जातो ऽहं शशिनः कुले वसुदेवस्य तनयो यदोर् वंशसमुद्भवः ॥
evaṃ dagdhvā sa taṃ pāpaṃ dṛṣṭvā ca madhusūdanam kas tvam ity āha so 'py āha jāto 'haṃ śaśinaḥ kule vasudevasya tanayo yador vaṃśasamudbhavaḥ //
Having thus burned that wicked one, and seeing the slayer of Madhu, he said, "Who are you?" And he replied: "I am born in the lineage of the moon, the son of Vasudeva, sprung from the line of Yadu."
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ViP 5 23.24
मुचुकुन्दो ऽपि तत्रासौ वृद्धगर्गवचो ऽस्मरत् ॥
mucukundo 'pi tatrāsau vṛddhagargavaco 'smarat //
And Mucukunda there remembered the words of the aged Garga.
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ViP 5 23.25
संस्मृत्य प्रणिपत्यैनं सर्वं सर्वेश्वरं हरिम् प्राह ज्ञातो भवान् विष्णोर् अंशस् त्वं परमेश्वर ॥
saṃsmṛtya praṇipatyainaṃ sarvaṃ sarveśvaraṃ harim prāha jñāto bhavān viṣṇor aṃśas tvaṃ parameśvara //
Remembering, and bowing down to him, Hari, the lord of all, he said to him: "You are known (to me): you are a portion of Viṣṇu, O supreme lord.
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ViP 5 23.26
पुरा गर्गेण कथितम् अष्टाविंशतिमे युगे द्वापरान्ते हरेर् जन्म यदोर् वंशे भविष्यति ॥
purā gargeṇa kathitam aṣṭāviṃśatime yuge dvāparānte harer janma yador vaṃśe bhaviṣyati //
Long ago it was told by Garga that in the twenty-eighth age, at the end of the Dvāpara, the birth of Hari would take place in the line of Yadu.
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ViP 5 23.27
स त्वं प्राप्तो न संदेहो मर्त्यानाम् उपकारकृत् ॥
sa tvaṃ prāpto na saṃdeho martyānām upakārakṛt //
You are he, arrived — there is no doubt — as a doer of good to mortals.
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ViP 5 23.28
तथा हि सुमहत् तेजो नालं सोढुम् अहं तव तथा हि सजलाम्भोदनादधीरतरं तव वाक्यं नमति चैवोर्वी युष्मत्पादप्रपीडिता ॥
tathā hi sumahat tejo nālaṃ soḍhum ahaṃ tava tathā hi sajalāmbhodanādadhīrataraṃ tava vākyaṃ namati caivorvī yuṣmatpādaprapīḍitā //
For indeed I am not able to bear your very great splendour; and indeed your speech is deeper than the thunder of a water-laden cloud; and the earth bows down, pressed by your feet.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
ViP 5 23.29
देवासुरमहायुद्धे दैत्यसैन्यमहाभटाः न सेहुर् मम तेजस् ते त्वत्तेजो न सहाम्य् अहम् ॥
devāsuramahāyuddhe daityasainyamahābhaṭāḥ na sehur mama tejas te tvattejo na sahāmy aham //
In the great war of gods and demons, the mighty warriors of the demon army could not bear my splendour; (yet) I cannot bear your splendour.
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ViP 5 23.30
संसारपतितस्यैको जन्तोस् त्वं शरणं परम् स प्रसीद प्रपन्नार्तिहन्तर् हर ममाशुभम् ॥
saṃsārapatitasyaiko jantos tvaṃ śaraṇaṃ param sa prasīda prapannārtihantar hara mamāśubham //
For a creature fallen into the round of rebirth you alone are the highest refuge. So be gracious, O destroyer of the suffering of those who take refuge: take away my evil.
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ViP 5 23.31
त्वं पयोनिधयः शैलाः सरितस् त्वं वनानि च मेदिनी गगनं वायुर् आपो ऽग्निस् त्वं तथा मनः ॥
tvaṃ payonidhayaḥ śailāḥ saritas tvaṃ vanāni ca medinī gaganaṃ vāyur āpo 'gnis tvaṃ tathā manaḥ //
You are the oceans, the mountains, the rivers, and the forests; you are the earth, the sky, wind, water, fire, and likewise mind;
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ViP 5 23.32
बुद्धिर् अव्याकृतं प्राणाः प्राणेशस् त्वं तथा पुमान् पुंसः परतरं यच् च व्याप्य् अजन्मविकल्पवत् ॥
buddhir avyākṛtaṃ prāṇāḥ prāṇeśas tvaṃ tathā pumān puṃsaḥ parataraṃ yac ca vyāpy ajanmavikalpavat //
(you are) intellect, the unevolved (matter), the vital breaths, and the lord of the breaths, and likewise the Person; and that which is higher than the Person, all-pervading, unborn and free from differentiation—
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ViP 5 23.33
शब्दादिहीनम् अजरम् अमेयं क्षयवर्जितम् अवृद्धिनाशं तद् ब्रह्म त्वम् आद्यन्तविवर्जितम् ॥
śabdādihīnam ajaram ameyaṃ kṣayavarjitam avṛddhināśaṃ tad brahma tvam ādyantavivarjitam //
devoid of sound and the other (qualities), unaging, immeasurable, free of decay, without growth or destruction — that Brahman, free of beginning and end, are you.
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ViP 5 23.34
त्वत्तो ऽमराः सपितरो यक्षगन्धर्वकिंनराः सिद्धाश् चाप्सरसस् त्वत्तो मनुष्याः पशवः खगाः ॥
tvatto 'marāḥ sapitaro yakṣagandharvakiṃnarāḥ siddhāś cāpsarasas tvatto manuṣyāḥ paśavaḥ khagāḥ //
From you (come) the immortals together with the ancestors, the yakṣas, gandharvas and kinnaras, the siddhas and the apsarases; from you, men, beasts and birds.
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ViP 5 23.36
अमूर्तं मूर्तम् अथवा स्थूलं सूक्ष्मतरं स्थितम् तत् सर्वं त्वं जगत्कर्तर् नास्ति किंचित् त्वया विना ॥
amūrtaṃ mūrtam athavā sthūlaṃ sūkṣmataraṃ sthitam tat sarvaṃ tvaṃ jagatkartar nāsti kiṃcit tvayā vinā //
Whatever exists, formless or having form, gross or more subtle — all that are you, O maker of the world; there is nothing at all apart from you.
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ViP 5 23.37
मया संसारचक्रे ऽस्मिन् भ्रमता भगवन् सदा तापत्रयाभिभूतेन न प्राप्ता निर्वृतिः क्वचित् ॥
mayā saṃsāracakre 'smin bhramatā bhagavan sadā tāpatrayābhibhūtena na prāptā nirvṛtiḥ kvacit //
By me, wandering ever in this wheel of rebirth, O Lord, overcome by the three torments, no rest has been found anywhere.
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ViP 5 23.38
दुःखान्य् एव सुखानीति मृगतृष्णाजलाशया मया नाथ गृहीतानि तानि तापाय चाभवन् ॥
duḥkhāny eva sukhānīti mṛgatṛṣṇājalāśayā mayā nātha gṛhītāni tāni tāpāya cābhavan //
Sorrows themselves, taking them for joys — waters that were a mirage — were grasped by me, O master, and they turned to torment.
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ViP 5 23.39
राज्यम् उर्वी बलं कोशो मित्रपक्षस् तथात्मजाः भार्या भृत्यजनो ये च शब्दाद्या विषयाः प्रभो ॥
rājyam urvī balaṃ kośo mitrapakṣas tathātmajāḥ bhāryā bhṛtyajano ye ca śabdādyā viṣayāḥ prabho //
Kingdom, land, army, treasury, the party of friends, and sons, wife, the body of servants, and those objects of sense, sound and the rest, O lord —
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ViP 5 23.40
सुखबुद्ध्या मया सर्वं गृहीतम् इदम् अव्यय परिणामे तद् एवेश तापात्मकम् अभून् मम ॥
sukhabuddhyā mayā sarvaṃ gṛhītam idam avyaya pariṇāme tad eveśa tāpātmakam abhūn mama //
all this was grasped by me in the belief that it was happiness, O imperishable one; but in its outcome, O ruler, that very thing became for me of the nature of torment.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
ViP 5 23.41
देवलोकगतिं प्राप्तो नाथ देवगणो ऽपि हि मत्तः साहाय्यकामो ऽभूच् शाश्वती कुत्र निर्वृतिः ॥
devalokagatiṃ prāpto nātha devagaṇo 'pi hi mattaḥ sāhāyyakāmo 'bhūc śāśvatī kutra nirvṛtiḥ //
Even the host of gods, O master, though it had attained the state of the world of the gods, desired help from me; where then is lasting rest?
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
ViP 5 23.42
त्वाम् अनाराध्य जगतां सर्वेषां प्रभवास्पदम् शाश्वती प्राप्यते केन परमेश्वर निर्वृतिः ॥
tvām anārādhya jagatāṃ sarveṣāṃ prabhavāspadam śāśvatī prāpyate kena parameśvara nirvṛtiḥ //
Without worshipping you, the ground of origin of all the worlds, by whom is everlasting bliss attained, O supreme lord?
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
ViP 5 23.43
त्वन्मायामूढमनसो जन्ममृत्युजरादिकम् अवाप्य तापान् पश्यन्ति प्रेतराजाननं नराः ॥
tvanmāyāmūḍhamanaso janmamṛtyujarādikam avāpya tāpān paśyanti pretarājānanaṃ narāḥ //
Men, their minds deluded by your māyā, having met with birth, death, old age and the rest, and (their) torments, look upon the face of the king of the dead.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
ViP 5 23.44
ततो निजक्रियासूतिनरकेष्व् अतिदारुणम् प्राप्नुवन्ति नरा दुःखम् अस्वरूपविदस् तव ॥
tato nijakriyāsūtinarakeṣv atidāruṇam prāpnuvanti narā duḥkham asvarūpavidas tava //
Then, in the hells that are born of their own deeds, men who do not know your true nature obtain most dreadful suffering.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
ViP 5 23.45
अहम् अत्यन्तविषयी मोहितस् तव मायया ममत्वगर्वगर्तान्तर् भ्रमामि परमेश्वर ॥
aham atyantaviṣayī mohitas tava māyayā mamatvagarvagartāntar bhramāmi parameśvara //
I, utterly given over to the objects of sense, bewildered by your māyā, wander inside the pit of self-conceit and pride, O supreme lord.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
ViP 5 23.46
सो ऽहं त्वां शरणम् अपारम् ईशम् ईड्यं संप्राप्तः परमपदं यतो न किंचित् संसारश्रमपरितापतप्तचेता निर्वाणे परिणतधाम्नि साभिलाषः ॥
so 'haṃ tvāṃ śaraṇam apāram īśam īḍyaṃ saṃprāptaḥ paramapadaṃ yato na kiṃcit saṃsāraśramaparitāpataptacetā nirvāṇe pariṇatadhāmni sābhilāṣaḥ //
Such as I am, I have come for refuge to you, the shoreless lord, worthy of praise, the highest station beyond which there is nothing—my mind burnt by the scorching toil and torment of transmigration, longing for extinction, the abode where (all) comes to its end.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition