The opening of this song is inspired by the famous shloka, Agajanana padmarkam. Set before the beat in this interesting 10 unit tala, this has interesting word play in both Pallavi and Charanam.
anEkadantantree laya vAdya vinOdam prat-
yEkadantam anisham bhajEham bhajEham
pinAkapANi kumAram mahA shareeram
ghanAgha vinAshanam Ashrita shiShTa janAnAm
satya sheelam nitya mangaLa
ravi shasheendrAdi nitya soori jana sEvitam
nrtya chaturam pathya bhOjanAteetam
paramashiva bhritya gaNEsham dAsa janAnAm