śrī āpaduddhāraka baṭuka bhairava stotram

The hundred and eight names called the lifter-out-of-calamity, from the Viśvasāroddhāra of the Rudrayāmala, given here in verse with the frame of a conversation between Śiva and Pārvatī. Its opening line is worth noticing, because the same words begin the Kālabhairava thousand: Bhairava, lord of beings, self of beings, their maker, then the kṣetra series — knower of the field, its guardian, its giver. The hundred and eight are the first stretch of the longer list, which is how these texts are usually built, and it means the two can be read against each other. What the phalaśruti promises is narrow and practical rather than sweeping: whoever recites these hundred and eight has no misfortune, which is what the title claims and no more. A litany of the same names circulates as the Baṭuka Bhairava Aṣṭottaraśatanāmāvalī.