śrī datta nāma bhajanam

A litany from the Datta Purāṇa built on a single repeated vocative: every line names one thing he did or established and then simply says Datta. There is almost no grammar beyond that, and the effect is closer to a roll-call than to a hymn. What the roll-call contains is unexpectedly practical — he is addressed as the one who showed the right order of the rites for the dead, who set out the determination of the proper lunar day, who settled what is to be done about wrong action, who established expiation, who made known how deeds ripen into their consequences, who showed the discipline of the forest-dweller, and who gave the renunciate's stage of life its sanction. The bracketed final pair, gladdener of his devotees' minds and establisher of the discipline of right action, comes with the source.