ଲକ୍ଷ୍ମୀଶତକମ୍

A hundred and seven verses in the arya metre to Perundevi, the consort of Varadaraja at Hastigiri in Kanchi, composed by Yajna Varaha of the Vadhula line, who names himself in the closing verse. May she who makes the wonder in Hari by a single deliberate glance, the giver of welfare on the hill of the elephant, always grant me joy. The second verse rests the whole hymn on a point of grammar: she whose name is to be sung as Shri at the head of the names of Hari — the syllable that opens every Vaishnava invocation is hers. The third is the poet's apology, and the loveliest thing in the poem: I wish to praise you as best I can; how should even the small babbling of an infant fail to make its mother glad?