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    परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम् । धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे ॥ ३१॥

    To deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of dharma (righteousness), I appear millennium after millennium.