śrī candramaulīśa stotram

A hymn to Śiva as Candramaulīśa — the liṅga worshipped daily at the Śṛṅgeri maṭha — composed by Sacchidānanda Śivābhinava Nṛsiṃha Bhāratī, who signs the colophon. It is short, seven verses, and each closes on the same words: constantly I bow to Candramaulīśa. Its construction is the interesting part, because the closing verse says what the reader may not have noticed — the hymn is built on the letters of the five-syllable mantra, each verse opening with one of them in order. The content is correspondingly compressed: he who gladly unfolds the meaning of Oṁ for those devoted to reciting it; whose two feet take away the pride of the lotus; from whom words turn back together with the mind, unable to reach him, as the ranks of scripture sing. The record had been filed under Chandra for the moon in the name.