स्वल्पायुषां कलियुगेऽत्र नृणां शमिच्छन्
शब्दानुशासनमहाजलधिं विमथ्य ।
नामामृतं समददाद्य इदं कृपालुः
स श्रीलजीवचरणः शरणं ममास्तु ॥
svalpāyuṣāṁ kali-yuge’tra nṛṇāṁ śam icchan
śabdānuśāsana-mahā-jaladhiṁ vimathya |
nāmāmṛtaṁ samadadād ya idaṁ kṛpāluḥ
sa śrīla-jīva-caraṇaḥ śaraṇaṁ mamāstu ||
(Amṛta-ṭīkā to Hari-nāmāmṛta-vyākaraṇam 1)
“May this merciful Śrīla Jīva-caraṇa, he who, desiring the welfare of short-lived human beings here in the Age of Kali, churned the vast ocean of grammar and produced the Nāmāmṛta [lit., ‘nectar of the names,’ i.e., his Hari-nāmāmṛta-vyākaraṇa grammar], be my shelter.”