साक्षात् श्री: प्रेषिता देवैर्दृष्ट्वा तं महदद्भुतम् । अदृष्टाश्रुतपूर्वत्वात् सा नोपेयाय शङ्किता ॥ २ ॥
saksat srih presita devair drstva tam mahad adbhutam adrstasruta-purvatvat sa nopeyaya sankita
- saksat
- directly
- srih
- the goddess of fortune
- presita
- being requested to go forward before the Lord
- devaih
- by all the demigods (headed by Lord Brahma and Lord Siva)
- drstva
- after seeing
- tam
- Him (Lord Nrsimhadeva)
- mahat
- very big
- adbhutam
- wonderful
- adrsta
- never seen
- asruta
- never heard of
- purvatvat
- due to being previously
- sa
- the goddess of fortune, Laksmi
- na
- not
- upeyaya
- went before the Lord
- sankita
- being very much afraid
The goddess of fortune, Laksmiji, was requested to go before the Lord by all the demigods present, who because of fear could not do so. But even she had never seen such a wonderful and extraordinary form of the Lord, and thus she could not approach Him.