śrī sūryāṣṭottaraśatanāmāvalī

The same hundred and eight names that the Mahābhārata's third Vana Parva chapter gives as verse, set out here one by one as a litany: each name turned into the dative and closed with namaḥ, so that what was recited as ślokas becomes something told on a mālā, one bead to a name. The order is unchanged. It opens on Sūrya, Aryaman, Bhaga, Tvaṣṭṛ, Pūṣan, Arka, Savitṛ and Ravi, passes through the elements, the planets and the great gods, works through the divisions of time from the kalā and the kāṣṭhā to the ages, and closes on the twelve-natured one, the lotus-eyed, father and mother and grandfather together, the gate of heaven and the gate of release. The verse form of the same list, with its transmission from Indra through Nārada and Dhaumya, is kept as a separate text.