śrī ādilakṣmī aṣṭottaraśatanāmāvalī

The hundred and eight names of Adilakshmi — the first of the eight Lakshmis, the primal form from which the others are counted — set out one to a line for offering, each prefixed with her seed syllable Shrim. The litany is arranged alphabetically, which is how these eight namavalis are all built, and it begins where the alphabet does: to Adilakshmi, to the letter A, to the imperishable, to the unfallen, to bliss, to the worshipped, to the giver of grace. It moves on through the vowels to i and ī — to the obtaining of what is wished for, to the mistress — and then into the consonants, to the maker, the beloved, the digit, the auspicious. The last run returns to her nature rather than her alphabet: all knowledge, mother of all, of great form, maker of prosperity.