Goddess Bagalamukhi

śrībagalāṣṭottaraśatanāmastotram

(Sri Bagalashtottara Shatanama Stotram (Kalivilasa Tantra) in English (IAST))

Also known as shri bagalashtottara shatanama stotram (kalivilasa tantra) · shree bagalashtottara shatanama stotram (kalivilasa tantra) · bagalashtottara shatanama stotram (kalivilasa tantra)

The other list of a hundred and eight names, from the sixteenth chapter of the Kalivilasa Tantra, and its frame states the difference outright: the Goddess asks for the names the other tantras have not given. What Ishvara recites is an acrostic. The names are grouped by their opening syllable and the groups spell the goddess's own name — first a long run in va, Vashini, Vashapujya, Valika, Vasuda, Vagvadini, Vidya, Vedarupa, Vedamata; then a long run in ga, Gandhini, Gayagangaprabha, Govardhani, Gokuleshvari, Golokavasini; then the la names, Lalajjihva and Lalatini. Vagala, spelled out in her own epithets, and the closing line says as much by calling them letters. The Rudrayamala list beside it is built the opposite way, by identifying her with other goddesses instead.

śrīdevyuvāca|
vagalā śatanāmāni kathyantāṃ me kṛpānidhe |
yannoktaṃ anyatantreṣu, adhunā kathaya prabho || 1||
śrīīśvara uvāca|
|| viniyogaḥ ||
asyāḥ śrīvagalā devyāḥ śatanāmastotrasya śrīsadāśivaṛṣirgāyatrīchandaḥ śrīvagalāmukhī devatā dharmārthakāmamokṣārthasiddhaye viniyogaḥ |
oṃ vaśinī vaśapūjyā ca valikā vasudā vasuḥ |
vāgvādinī vayorūpā balābalavatī tathā || 2||
viṣamā vikaṭā vedhā viśālā vimanā vidhiḥ |
vidyā ca vedarūpā ca bandhyā ca veṣadhāriṇī || 3||
veṇī ca vikaṭā veśyā nānāveṣaparicchadā |
vayorūpā ca vṛddhā vikalā vasumatīti ca || 4||
vagalā vāmanī devī viṣṇupūjyā vinodinī |
vaiṣṇavī śiṣṇa mātā ca vārāhī brāhmaṇī varā || 5||
valāvalavatī vālā vidheśca paripūjitā |
viśiṣṭā brahmapūjyā ca nānāveṣavinodinī || 6||
vaikuṇṭharūpiṇī brāhmī vidhipūjyā vidhuntudā |
vallabhā valarūpā ca aśeṣa valadhāriṇī || 7||
vedajñā vedamātā ca viśāla nayanojjvalā |
vedamātā vimātā ca vedagarbhā vimokṣaṇī || 8||
virūpākṣī valā vālī kṛṣṇavimalarūpiṇī |
vārāhī ca valākā ca valinī varṇarūpiṇī || 9||
gandhinī gandharūpā ca gayāgaṅgāprabhā tathā |
govardhanī ca govindapūjitā ca gadādharī || 10||
gahanā guhyarūpā ca gorūpā gokuleśvarī |
golokavāsinī caiva nityā golokarūpiṇī || 11||
garimā ca gariṣṭhā nityā govardhanarūpiṇī |
gaṅgādharī ca govindā govindapūjitā gadā || 12||
gahanā guhyarūpā ca tathaiva gandharūpiṇī |
gaṇārhā gānadāgānarūpiṇī gaṇa mohinī || 13||
nīlamālā manonmattā lalajihvā lalāṭinī |
ānandarūpiṇī ādyā ācārya svāṃśurūpiṇī || 14||
mūrtiśca mukhyarūpā ca mahāmokṣapradāyinī |
khelat khañjagāmī ca khelā khalakhalā tathā || 15||
īśvarī īśvarārādhyā akāra oṃ svarūpiṇī |
varṇā ca vagalāmukhyāḥ śatanāma itīritam || 16||
|| phalaśruti ||
aṣṭottaraśataṃ nāma yaḥ paṭhennityamuttamam |
sarvasiddhīśvaro bhūtvā devīputro bhavettu saḥ || 17||
trisandhyaṃ yaḥ paṭhennityaṃ tasya siddhiḥ prajāyate |
nānyathā phalabhāgīsyāt kalpakoṭiśatairapi || 18||
|| iti śrīkālīvilāsatantre ṣoḍaśapaṭale śrīvagalāmukhyāḥ śatanāmastotraṃ samāptam || oṃ tatsat |

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