2312. The lord who stays on the milky ocean resting
on the earless serpent Adisesha, worshiped by all the four Vedās
and took the form of a man-lion and split open the chest of Hiranyan.
He has Shivā adorned with a snake in whose hair the Ganges flows in his body.
Word by Word (WBW) meaning
(The words may be rearranged to facilitate poetry to prose conversion (Aṉvayam). Please read the meanings (in black) continiously to form the sentence and understand the simple meaning of those verse.)
iraṇiyanadhu — the demon hiraṇya kashyap’s; āgam — chest; avai seydhu — to break it into many pieces; ari uruvam ānān — one who incarnated as narasimha; sevi theriyā nāgaththān — having as his mattress thiruvananthāzhwān who does not have separate ears as his eyes serve the purpose of both eyes and ears; nāl vĕdhaththu ul̤l̤ān — one who resides inside the four vĕdhas (sacred texts); naṛavu ĕṝān pāgaththān — one who has in one part of divine form, rudhra, who has honey-like gangā in his body (alternatively, one who has in one part of divine form, rudhra, who has liquor in his hand); pāṛkadalul̤ān — one who is reclining on thiruppāṛkadal; avan — that emperumān’s; kŏyil ivai — divine abodes are these which were mentioned in the previous pāsuram