Goddess Chamundeshwari

śrī cāmuṇḍeśvarī aṣṭottaraśatanāma stotram

(Sri Chamundeshwari Ashtottara Shatanama Stotram in English (IAST))

Also known as shri chamundeshwari ashtottara shatanama stotram · shree chamundeshwari ashtottara shatanama stotram · chamundeshwari ashtottara shatanama stotram

A hundred and eight names of Chamundeshwari, the goddess of the hill above Mysore, and the list places her in the Shrividya from its first line rather than in the Devi Mahatmya. She is mistress of the lion throne, her greatness knowable through the Shrividya, dweller in the city of the Shrichakra, and beloved of Shrikantha. What follows names her as the three great goddesses at once, Mahakali and Mahalakshmi and Mahavani, and then as thousand-headed and thousand-handed in safflower-coloured cloth and a jewelled bodice. One name is a whole story in a compound: she from whose finger-nails the ten forms of Narayana arose. Later names take in Indrakshi and Bagala and Bala and Vijayambika, so the list gathers the local goddess and the Mahavidyas into one figure.

|| śrī cāmuṇḍeśvarī aṣṭottaraśatanāma stotram ||
śrīcāmuṇḍā māhāmāyā śrīmatsiṃhāsaneśvarī |
śrīvidyāvedyamahimā śrīcakrapuravāsinī || 1 ||
śrīkaṇṭhadayitā gaurī girijā bhuvaneśvarī |
mahākālī mahālakṣmīḥ mahāvāṇī manonmanī || 2 ||
sahasraśīrṣasamyuktā sahasrakaramaṇḍitā |
kausumbhavasanopetā ratnakañcukadhāriṇī || 3 ||
gaṇeśaskandajananī japākusumabhāsurā |
umā kātyāyanī durgā mantriṇī daṇḍinī jayā || 4 ||
karāṅgulinakhotpannanārāyaṇadaśākṛtiḥ |
sacāmararamāvāṇīsavyadakṣiṇasevitā || 5 ||
indrākṣī bagalā bālā cakreśī vijayāmbikā |
pañcapretāsanārūḍhā haridrākuṅkumapriyā || 6 ||
mahābalādrinilayā mahiṣāsuramardinī |
madhukaiṭabhasaṃhartrī mathurāpuranāyikā || 7 ||
kāmeśvarī yoganidrā bhavānī caṇḍikā satī |
cakrarājarathārūḍhā sṛṣṭisthityantakāriṇī || 8 ||
annapūrṇā jvalajjihvā kālarātrisvarūpiṇī |
niśumbhaśumbhadamanī raktabījaniṣūdinī || 9 ||
brāhmyādimātṛkārūpā śubhā ṣaṭcakradevatā |
mūlaprakṛtirūpā''ryā pārvatī parameśvarī || 10 ||
bindupīṭhakṛtāvāsā candramaṇḍalamadhyagā |
cidagnikuṇḍasambhūtā vindhyācalanivāsinī || 11 ||
hayagrīvāgastyapūjyā sūryacandrāgnilocanā |
jālandharasupīṭhasthā śivā dākṣāyaṇīśvarī || 12 ||
navāvaraṇasampūjyā navākṣaramanustutā |
navalāvaṇyarūpāḍhyā jvaladdvātriṃśatāyudhā || 13 ||
kāmeśabaddhamāṅgalyā candrarekhāvibhūṣitā |
carācarajagadrūpā nityaklinnā'parājitā || 14 ||
oḍyāṇapīṭhanilayā lalitā viṣṇusodarī |
daṃṣṭrākarālavadanā vajreśī vahnivāsinī || 15 ||
sarvamaṅgalarūpāḍhyā saccidānandavigrahā |
aṣṭādaśasupīṭhasthā bheruṇḍā bhairavī parā || 16 ||
ruṇḍamālālasatkaṇṭhā bhaṇḍāsuravimardinī |
puṇḍrekṣukāṇḍakodaṇḍā puṣpabāṇalasatkarā || 17 ||
śivadūtī vedamātā śāṅkarī siṃhavāhanā |
catuḥṣaṣṭyupacārāḍhyā yoginīgaṇasevitā || 18 ||
vanadurgā bhadrakālī kadambavanavāsinī |
caṇḍamuṇḍaśiraśchetrī mahārājñī sudhāmayī || 19 ||
śrīcakravaratāṭaṅkā śrīśailabhramarāmbikā |
śrīrājarājavaradā śrīmattripurasundarī || 20 ||
śākambharī śāntidātrī śatahantrī śivapradā |
rākenduvadanā ramyā ramaṇīyavarākṛtiḥ ||
|| phalaśruti ||
śrīmaccāmuṇḍikādevyā nāmnāmaṣṭottaraṃ śatam |
paṭhan bhaktyā'rcayan devīṃ sarvān kāmānavāpnuyāt || 21 ||
|| iti śrī cāmuṇḍeśvarī aṣṭottaraśatanāma stotram ||

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