ମହାମହିମାନ୍ଵିତମ୍ ଆଦିତ୍ଯସ୍ତୋତ୍ରମ୍

Appayya Dīkṣita's Āditya Stotra Ratna, which its own thirteenth verse counts as twelve stanzas in the sragdharā metre, and which reads more like astronomy kept inside worship than like ordinary praise. It begins with the chariot measured at ten thousand yojanas, its single wheel of five spokes and three naves, the seven metres yoked to it as horses, and the solar disc occupying the middle tenth of the whole. The rays are then counted and apportioned — ninety-six thousand of them, divided month by month — and followed inward to the hārda nāḍī of every living creature, drawing water up and giving it back as rain and as frost. Between these the hymn keeps pressing one identity: the Sun worshipped at dawn, noon and dusk by Ṛk, Yajus and Sāman is Brahman directly, and the twelfth verse gives him a blue throat and three eyes and calls him Śiva.