Lord Chandra

candrāṣṭāviṃśatināmāvaliḥ

(Candrastavimsatinamavalih in English (IAST))

Also known as sri chandra ashtavimsati namavali · candrastavimsatinamavali · om kumudapriyaya namah

The same twenty-eight names that the verse text gives, set out singly as a litany, each in the dative between Oṁ and namaḥ, for telling on a mālā or offering with flowers. The order is unchanged and can be followed against the stotra name for name: Sudhākara, Soma, Glau, Abja, lover of the night-lotus, beloved of the world, of bright rays, Candramas; then Śaśin, the frost-maker, the king, the king of the twice-born, the maker of night, Ātreya, Indu, the cool-rayed, lord of the herbs, treasury of the digits. The last stretch is the one that places him rather than describes him — giver of long life, brother of Ramā, born of the ocean of milk, chief of the constellations, the one on Śambhu's head, and the crest-jewel. Twenty-eight is chosen for the lunar mansions, so the list is a month told one name at a time.

oṃ sudhākarāya namaḥ |
oṃ somāya namaḥ |
oṃ glāve namaḥ |
oṃ abjāya namaḥ |
oṃ kumudapriyāya namaḥ |
oṃ lokapriyāya namaḥ |
oṃ śubhrabhānve namaḥ |
oṃ candramāya namaḥ |
oṃ rohiṇīpataye namaḥ || 9 ||
oṃ śaśine namaḥ |
oṃ himakarāya namaḥ |
oṃ rājase namaḥ |
oṃ dvijarājase namaḥ |
oṃ niśākarāya namaḥ |
oṃ ātreyāya namaḥ |
oṃ indave namaḥ |
oṃ śītāṃśave namaḥ |
oṃ oṣadhīśāya namaḥ || 18 ||
oṃ kalānidhaye namaḥ |
oṃ jaivātṛkāya namaḥ |
oṃ ramābhrātre namaḥ |
oṃ kṣīrodārṇavasambhavāya namaḥ |
oṃ nakṣatranāyakāya namaḥ |
oṃ śambhuśirāya namaḥ |
oṃ cūḍāmaṇaye namaḥ |
oṃ vibhave namaḥ |
oṃ tāpahartre namaḥ |
oṃ nabhodīpāya namaḥ || 28 ||
|| iti śrīcandrāṣṭāviṃśatināmāvaliḥ samāptā ||

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