ଶ୍ରୀମହାଲକ୍ଷ୍ମୀ ଲଲିତାସ୍ତୋତ୍ରମ୍

Five verses from the Lakshminarayana Samhita, made by the assembled gods and framed by a speech of Shri Lakshmi. What they see first is a great wheel-shaped mass of light, and in the middle of it the supreme mistress — mother of the world, giver of life, Narayani — made of the splendour of the vyuhas, the delight of Brahman, the beauty of Hari, with noose and goad and sugarcane bow and a garland of lotuses shining in her hands. Seeing her, the verse says, the gods were bewildered, and then bowed with their fever gone. The closing verses promise sons and friends and a wife, and say that fear of enemies and fear of kings alike are destroyed by reading it or hearing it.