Pallavi:
I worship the great asura Ketu; the revered shadowy planet.

AnuPallavi:
The one who wears a strange crown; the one wearing auspicious robes; the one seated on a humanbeing; the blissful one;  the friend of the 9 planets.

Charanam :
The one who has the mantra beginning with the words "ketum krnavan". The one born in the family of sage jaimini - known for his anger; the one who consumes horsegram; the one who has a triangular flag; the one who holds guruguha's fan; the one who is like an ornament to the jnanis who have conquered good & evil; the one who causes eclipses, the one who orbit the planets in an anticlockwise duetion