śrī sūryāṣṭottaraśatanāma stotram

The hundred and eight names as the Mahābhārata gives them, in the third chapter of the Vana Parva. The list moves outward in stages: first the Sun's own names — Sūrya, Aryaman, Bhaga, Tvaṣṭṛ, Pūṣan, Arka, Savitṛ, Ravi — then the five elements, then the planets he leads, then Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Rudra, Skanda and Yama, then time itself measured from the instant to the four ages, and last the twelve Ādityas with the doors of heaven, of progeny and of release. Its closing verses give the chain by which it travelled: Indra spoke it, Nārada had it from Indra, Dhaumya from Nārada, and Yudhiṣṭhira from Dhaumya, who gained by it everything he sought. One who recites it at sunrise is promised sons, wealth, and the memory of former births. Yudhiṣṭhira's own answering praise from the same chapter stands separately as the Bhāskara Stuti.