ശ്രീ ഗജലക്ഷ്മീ അഷ്ടോത്തരശതനാമാവലീ

The hundred and eight names of Gajalakshmi — the form bathed by elephants, the one most often carved over a temple door — offered one to a line, each headed by the three seeds Shrim, Hrim and Klim. The names do not begin with the elephants at all but with what is behind them: to Gajalakshmi, to endless power, to the unknowable, to her whose form is the atom, to her adorned with every vowel of the alphabet. Then the alphabetical run — to will itself, to the light of the blue lotus, to Uma. The last names are of quieting rather than of increase, which is not what the name of this form would lead one to expect: to Shambhari, to the stiller, to peace, to the beautiful one.