śrī mahāviṣṇu stutiḥ

Twenty-two verses from the Suta Samhita, spoken by the brahmin sages and made almost entirely of salutations, each of them a name in the dative. It opens on the first being among the gods, the ancient person, the supreme self, and then on the one free of age and death and disease. The middle turns technical: he is saluted as the form of maya and as the reason maya has any existence at all, and then, in the same verse, in the ranked forms as Pradyumna and as Sankarshana. The last verse leaves the doctrine for a plainer request, saluting him as the giver of a raft of dispassion to those who have been overcome by passion.