Lord Chandra

bṛhaddharmapurāṇa candra aṣṭottaraśatanāma stotra

(Brhaddharmapurana Candra Astottarasatanama Stotra in English (IAST))

Also known as brihaddharma purana chandra stotram · atha vaksye sasistotram tacchrnusva mudanvitah

The hundred and eight names of the moon as the Bṛhaddharma Purāṇa gives them, and the list keeps to what the moon does rather than to mythology. He is full of nectar, white, spotless in form, of the broad disc, whose rays are ambrosia; the king of the twice-born, the hare-bearer, the house on Śiva's head; son of the ocean of milk, raining nectar, lord of the night and remover of darkness, the eye of the world; the one who gladdens the eye, husband of the stars, undiminished; of sixteen digits, lord of the digits, and desire itself. One pair of names sets his whole nature out plainly — waning and waxing — and the closing verses attach him to the rite for the ancestors, saying the offering becomes endless by the favour of the lord of the digits. Its last line specifies who may recite it and who is to listen.

|| śrīcandrāṣṭottaraśatanāmastotram ||
atha vakṣye śaśistotraṃ tacchṛṇuṣva mudānvitaḥ |
candro'mṛtamayaḥ śveto vidhurvimalarūpavān || 1 ||
viśālamaṇḍalaḥ śrīmān pīyūṣakiraṇaḥ karī |
dvijarājaḥ śaśadharaḥ śaśī śivaśirogṛhaḥ || 2 ||
kṣīrābdhitanayo divyo mahātmā'mṛtavarṣaṇaḥ |
rātrinātho dhvāntahartā nirmalo lokalocanaḥ || 3 ||
cakṣurāhlādajanakastārāpatirakhaṇḍitaḥ |
ṣoḍaśātmā kalānātho madanaḥ kāmavallabhaḥ || 4 ||
haṃsaḥsvāmī kṣīṇavṛddho gauraḥ satatasundaraḥ |
manoharo devabhogyo brahmakarmavivardhanaḥ || 5 ||
vedapriyo vedakarmakartā hartā haro hariḥ |
ūrddhvavāsī niśānāthaḥ śṛṅgārabhāvakarṣaṇaḥ || 6 ||
muktidvāraṃ śivātmā ca tithikartā kalānidhiḥ |
oṣadhīpatirabjaśca somo jaivātṛkaḥ śuciḥ || 7 ||
mṛgāṅko glauḥ puṇyanāmā citrakarmā surārcitaḥ |
rohiṇīśo budhapitā ātreyaḥ puṇyakīrtakaḥ || 8 ||
nirāmayo mantrarūpaḥ satyo rājā dhanapradaḥ |
saundaryadāyako dātā rāhugrāsaparāṅmukhaḥ || 9 ||
śaraṇyaḥ pārvatībhālabhūṣaṇaṃ bhagavānapi |
puṇyāraṇyapriyaḥ pūrṇaḥ pūrṇamaṇḍalamaṇḍitaḥ || 10 ||
hāsyarūpo hāsyakartā śuddhaḥ śuddhasvarūpakaḥ |
śaratkālapariprītaḥ śāradaḥ kumudapriyaḥ || 11 ||
dyumaṇirdakṣajāmātā yakṣmāriḥ pāpamocanaḥ |
induḥ kalaṅkanāśī ca sūryasaṅgamapaṇḍitaḥ || 12 ||
sūryodbhūtaḥ sūryagataḥ sūryapriyaparaḥparaḥ |
snigdharūpaḥ prasannaśca muktākarpūrasundaraḥ || 13 ||
jagadāhlādasandarśo jyotiḥ śāstrapramāṇakaḥ |
sūryābhāvaduḥkhahartā vanaspatigataḥ kṛtī || 14 ||
yajñarūpo yajñabhāgī vaidyo vidyāviśāradaḥ |
raśmikoṭirdīptikārī gaurabhānuriti dvija || 15 ||
nāmnāmaṣṭottaraśataṃ candrasya pāpanāśanam |
candrodaye paṭhedyastu sa tu saundaryavān bhavet || 16 ||
paurṇamāsyāṃ paṭhedetaṃ stavaṃ divyaṃ viśeṣataḥ |
stavasyāsya prasādena trisandhyāpaṭhitasya ca || 17 ||
sadāprasādāstiṣṭhanti brāhmaṇāśca dvijottama |
śrāddhe cāpi paṭhedetaṃ stavaṃ pīyūṣarūpiṇam || 18 ||
tattu śrāddhamanantañca kalānāthaprasādataḥ |
duḥsvapnanāśanaṃ puṇyaṃ dāhajvaravināśanam || 19 ||
brāhmaṇādyāḥ paṭheyustu strīśūdrāḥ śṛṇuyustathā | || iti bṛhaddharmapurāṇāntargataṃ śrīcandrāṣṭottaraśatanāmastotraṃ sampūrṇam ||

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