Lovely as a jasmine and a blue lotus, of surpassing strength, repositories of wisdom, endowed with natural grace, excellent bowmen, hymned by the Vedas, and lovers of the cow and the BrŒhma˜as, who appeared in the form of mortal men through their own MŒyŒ (deluding potency) as the two noble scions of Raghu, the armours of true religion, friendly to all and journeying in quest for S¶tŒ, may they both grant us Devotion. (1)