indirāṣṭottaraśatanāma stotram

The hundred and eight names of Lakshmi as Indira, in verse, and worked throughout on a single sound-figure: nearly every name in a line shares its opening syllables with its neighbours, so the litany reads as a chain of near-rhymes. Indira, the temple in Vishnu's heart, lovely as the lotus, who delights the fortune of all devotees, who is bowed to by Nandikeshvara; whose conduct is dear to Keshava, whose form is bliss alone, wearing armlet and necklace and anklet, holding the ketaki flower. The last verse closes the circle with her name again: slender-waisted, the blessed one, giver of boons even to men who repeat her mantra, Lakshmi who dwells at the bilva tree — may she who is praised by these hundred and eight protect us.