ଋଦ୍ଧି ସ୍ତଵଃ (Lord Venkateswara Prosperity Prayer)

Unusual among temple hymns in that it asks for nothing for the worshipper at all. Every verse is a wish for the prosperity of the shrine itself: may your rampart and gateway and great hall and jewelled pavilion stand, and the storehouses of rice and mung and sesame; may there be beds and couches and broad seats, gold vessels and spittoons and ladles, parasols and fly-whisks as permanent furnishings. Then the wish that gives the text its purpose — may your worship be without equal and never interrupted, and may the great festivals increase fortnight by fortnight and month by month. It is a prayer for endowment, of the kind a patron or a temple servant would make, and its closing verse says as much: whoever daily prays in this way for the elevation of the lord is himself looked upon with favour by the supreme person.