Lord Hanuman

hanumadaṣṭottaraśatanāmastotram

(Hanumadastottarasatanamastotram in English (IAST))

Also known as hanumad ashtottarashatanamastotram ghatikachalamahatmya · hanumadastottarasatanamastotra · brahmavaivarte ghatikacalamahatmyatah

A hundred and eight names from the Ghatikachala Mahatmya in the Brahmavaivarta Purana, and the meditation verse that opens it fixes the form to hold: a face of the palest red, a body carrying the golden mountain, and — unusually for Hanuman — the conch and the discus in his hands. That is the Sholinghur image, and the hill itself keeps returning in the names, as the dweller on the golden mountain. The list runs from parijata-priya, lover of the coral tree, through the leaping-king, the tawny-eyed, the swift-goer, the firm in vow; then to what he did — giver of Saumitri's life, shaker of Lanka, strider of the ocean, remover of the cause of Sita's grief, and breaker of the necklace at the throat of the demon's wife. The same hundred and eight appear as a namavali elsewhere in this collection, in the same order.

(brahmavaivarte ghaṭikācalamāhātmyataḥ)
atipāṭalavakrānaṃ dhṛtahemādrivigraham |
āñjaneyaṃ śaṅkhacakrapāṇiṃ cetasi dhīmahi || 1||
oṃ pārijātapriyo yogī hanumān nṛharipriyaḥ |
plavagendraḥ piṅgalākṣaḥ śīghragāmī dṛḍhavrataḥ || 2||
śaṅkhacakravarābhītipāṇirānandadāyakaḥ |
sthāyī vikramasampanno rāmadūto mahāyaśāḥ || 3||
saumitrijīvanakaro laṅkāvikṣobhakārakaḥ |
udadhikramaṇaḥ sītāśokahetuharo hariḥ || 4||
balī rākṣasasaṃhartā daśakaṇṭhamadāpahaḥ |
buddhimān nairṛtavadhūkaṇṭhasūtravidārakaḥ || 5||
sugrīvasacivo bhīmo bhīmasenasahodaraḥ |
sāvitravidyāsaṃsevī caritārtho mahodayaḥ || 6||
vāsavābhīṣṭado bhavyo hemaśailanivāsavān |
kiṃśukābho'grayatanū ṛjuromā mahāmatiḥ || 7||
mahākramo vanacaraḥ sthirabuddhirabhīśumān |
siṃhikāgarbhanirbhattā bhettā laṅkānivāsinām || 8||
akṣaśatruvinighnaśca rakṣo'mātyabhayāvahaḥ |
vīrahā mṛduhastaśca padmapāṇirjaṭādharaḥ || 9||
sarvapriyaḥ sarvakāmapradaḥ prāṃśumukhaśśuciḥ |
viśuddhātmā vijvaraśca saṭāvān pāṭalādharaḥ || 10||
bharatapremajanakaścīravāsā mahokṣadhṛk |
mahāstrabandhanasaho brahmacārī yatīśvaraḥ || 11||
mahauṣadhopahartā ca vṛṣaparvā vṛṣodaraḥ |
sūryopalālitaḥ svāmī pārijātāvataṃsakaḥ || 12||
sarvaprāṇadharo'nantaḥ sarvabhūtādigo manuḥ |
raudrākṛtirbhīmakarmā bhīmākṣo bhīmadarśanaḥ || 13||
sudarśanakaro'vyakto vyaktāsyo dundubhisvanaḥ |
suvelacārī mainākaharṣado harṣaṇapriyaḥ || 14||
sulabhaḥ suvrato yogī yogisevyo bhayāpahaḥ |
vālāgnimathitānekalaṅkāvāsigṛhoccayaḥ || 15||
vardhano vardhamānaśca rociṣṇū romaśo mahān |
mahādaṃṣṭro mahāśūraḥ sadgatiḥ satparāyaṇaḥ || 16||
saumyadarśī saumyaveṣo hemayajñopavītimān |
mauñjīkṛṣṇājinadharo mantrajño mantrasārathiḥ |
jitārātiḥ ṣaḍūrmiśca sarvapriyahite rataḥ || 17||
etairnāmapadairdivyairyaḥ stauti tava sannidhau |
hanumaṃstasya kiṃ nāma no bhavedbhaktiśālinaḥ || 18||
praṇavaṃ ca puraskṛtya caturthyantairnamo'ntakaiḥ |
etairnāmabhiravyagrairucyate hanumān bhavān || 19||
ṛṇarogādidāridyapāpakṣudapamṛtyavaḥ |
vinaśyanti hanumaṃste nāmasaṅkīrtanakṣaṇe || 20||
bhagavan hanuman nityaṃ rājavaśyaṃ tathaiva ca |
lakṣmīvaśyaṃ ca śrīvaśyamārogyaṃ dīrghamāyuṣam || 21||
prādhānyaṃ sakalānāṃ ca jñātiprādhānyameva ca |
vīryaṃ tejaśca bhaktānāṃ prayacchasi mahāmate || 22||
|| iti hanumadaṣṭottaraśatanāmastotram (brahmavaivarte ghaṭikācalamāhātmyataḥ) sampūrṇam ||

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