ଶ୍ରୀ ହରି ସ୍ତୁତିଃ (ହରିମୀଡେ ସ୍ତୋତ୍ରମ୍)

Forty-four verses given in the colophon to Shankaracharya, every one of them closing on the same line — I praise that Hari, destroyer of the darkness of the world. The opening verse states the hymn's whole logic in a single turn: in him this wheel of birth and death revolves, and upon his being seen that same wheel perishes. What follows is Vedantic rather than narrative. He is the one from a single fragment of whom all this came forth, by whom it is bound and pervaded and woken into pleasure and pain; the one whom the ascetics, having looked through Vedanta and the books of the inner self and the Puranas and the Satvata tantras, knew at last within the mind and entered. The refrain is what gives the text its other name, Harimide.