ശ്രീഅമ്ബികാഷ്ടോത്തരശതനാമാവലീ

A hundred and eight names of Ambika, prefaced by the viniyoga that names Markandeya as their seer and Ambika Durga as their deity, and then by a meditation verse that is not Durga's at all but Lakshmi's — seated on the lotus, long-eyed as a lotus petal, bowed by the weight of her breasts, bathed by the great elephants from jewelled golden jars. The identification is the point of the list. Its early names give her the four varnas and the speech of the four stages of life, and it closes exactly where the meditation began, on the lotus-eyed, lotus-handed, lotus-seated Mahalakshmi. Where other lists of a hundred and eight names of the Goddess move toward Kali or toward Tripurasundari, this one moves toward Shri.