rāhu aṣṭottara śata nāma stotram

Listen to the names of Rāhu: Saiṃhikeya (son of Siṃhikā), Vidhuntuda (striker at the Moon), Suraśatru (enemy of the gods), Tamas (darkness), Phaṇī (the serpent), Gārgāyaṇa (of the Garga lineage). (1)

Surāgu (adversary of the gods), Nīlajīmūtasaṅkāśa (resembling a dark rain-cloud), Caturbhuja (four-armed), Khaḍgakheṭakādhārī (holding sword and shield), Varadāyakahastaka (with hands granting boons). (2)

Śūlāyudha (armed with a trident), Meghavarṇa (of cloud-colour), Kṛṣṇadhvajapatākavān (bearing black flag and banner), Dakṣiṇāśāmukhārata (facing the southern direction), Tīkṣṇadaṃṣṭradhara (bearing sharp fangs). (3)

Śūrpākārāsanastha (seated on a winnow-shaped throne), Gomēdābharaṇapriya (fond of hessonite gem ornaments), Māṣapriya (fond of black gram), Kaśyaparṣinandana (son of the sage Kaśyapa), Bhujajeśvara (lord of serpents). (4)

Ulkāpātajani (born of a meteor), Śūlī (trident-bearing), Nidhipa (lord of treasures), Kṛṣṇasarparāṭ (king of black serpents), Viṣajvalāvṛtāsya (with poison-flame-encircled mouth), Ardhaśarīra (half-bodied), Jādyasamprada (giver of inertia). (5)

Ravīndubhīkara (one who terrifies Sun and Moon), Chāyāsvarūpī (having the form of shadow), Kaṭhināṅgaka (of hard limbs), Dviṣacchakracchēdaka (cutter of the enemy's disc), Karāḻāsya (of terrible face), Bhayaṅkara (terrifying). (6)

Krūrakarman (of cruel deeds), Tamōrūpa (the form of darkness), Śyāmātman (of dark soul), Nīlalohita (blue-red hued), Kirīṭī (crowned), Nīlavasana (dark-robed), Śanisāmantavartmagā (moving along Saturn's companion path). (7)

Cāṇḍālavarṇa (of outcaste complexion), Āśvyarkṣabhava (born in Aśvinī nakṣatra), Meṣabhava (arising in Aries), Śanivatphalada (fruit-giver like Saturn), Śūra (heroic), Apasavyagati (moving in the counter-clockwise direction). (8)

Uparāgakara (the cause of eclipse), Sūryahimāṃśucchavihāraka (disturber of Sun's and Moon's radiance), Nīlapuṣpavihāra (one who delights in blue flowers), Grahaśreṣṭha (the best among the planets), Aṣṭamagraha (the eighth in the planetary order). (9)

Kabandhāmātradēha (having only a headless trunk for a body), Yātudhānakulodbhava (born from the clan of the night-wanderers), Govindavarapātra (recipient of Govinda's boon), Devajātipraviṣṭaka (one who entered the divine class by deception). (10)

Krūra (fierce), Ghora (terrible), Śanermitra (friend of Saturn), Śukramitra (friend of Venus), Agocara (inaccessible), Māne Gaṅgāsnānadātā (one who grants the merit of bathing in the Gaṅgā when honoured), Svagṛhe Prabalāḍhyaka (very powerful in his own house). (11)

One who gains another's strength in a good house; destroyer of the mother when in the fourth house; indicator of birth in a low class when joined with the Moon. (12)

Giver of sovereignty when born with Leo; Mahākāya (of great body); Janmakartā (the creator of birth); Vidhuripa (enemy of the Moon); Mattaka (the intoxicated one); Jñānada (giver of knowledge). (13)

Giver of sovereignty born in Virgo; giver of loss in the birth sign; destroyer of the father when in the ninth house; giver of grief when in the fifth house. (14)

Destroyer of the spouse when in the seventh house; giver of strife when in the seventh; giver of wealth when in the sixth; giver of enmity when in the fourth house. (15)

Giver of sin when in the ninth house; giver of grief when in the tenth; giver of fame at first, giver of enmity at the end. (16)

Kālātman (of the soul of time), Gocarācāra (moving through the constellations); in the second house a giver of wealth's summit; in the fifth house a giver of wisdom's peak; Svarbhānu (swallower of sky-light), Balī (powerful). (17)

Mahāsaukhyapradāyī (great giver of happiness), Chandravairī (eternal enemy of the Moon), Śāśvata (eternal), Suraśatru (enemy of the gods), Pāpagraha (the malefic planet), Śāmbhava (related to Śiva), Pūjyaka (worthy of worship). (18)

Pāṭīrapūraṇa (one who fulfils with sandal paste), Paiṭhīnasakulōdbhava (of the Paiṭhīnasa lineage), Dīrghakṛṣṇa (dark and elongated), Atanu (bodiless), Viṣṇunētrāri (enemy of Viṣṇu's eye), Devadānava (both divine and demonic in nature). (19)

Bhaktarakṣa (protector of devotees), Rāhumūrti (the form of Rāhu), Sarvābhīṣṭaphalaprada (giver of all desired fruits). Thus these one hundred and eight names of the planet Rāhu have been declared. (20)

One who devoutly recites them daily shall be freed from all dangers; all wealth shall come to that person; Rāhu becomes the bestower of all desired things. (21)