ശ്രീ ഹയഗ്രീവ അഷ്ടോത്തരശതനാമാവലീ

A hundred and eight names of Hayagriva in the form used for offering, each standing alone between om and namah. The list begins by making sure he is not mistaken for a minor form: Hayagriva, then Mahavishnu, Keshava, Madhusudana, Govinda, lotus-eyed, Vishnu, bearer of the world, Hari — nine names of Vishnu before the horse-headed one gets any of his own. What is his own comes after, and it is all about speech and learning: lord of all speech, the sun, and the run of names that make him the giver of knowledge, the store of the Veda and the teacher of it. He is the form invoked at the start of study rather than for any worldly end, and the archana is performed by students and by those beginning a text.