Lord Surya

śrī ravi saptati rahasyanāma stotram

(Sri Ravi Saptati Nama Stotram in English (IAST))

Also known as surya saptati nama stotram · 70 names of surya · ravi saptati rahasya nama

Seventy names of the Sun from the ninth chapter of the Kāśī Khaṇḍa of the Skanda Purāṇa, called secret names, given in eight verses and then followed by the exact rite they belong to. The names themselves are compact — Haṃsa, Bhānu, Sahasrāṃśu, Tapana, Vikartana, Viśvakarman, Mārtaṇḍa, Mihira, Lokacakṣus the eye of the world, Grahēśvara lord of the planets, Mandehāri the enemy of the demons of the twilight. Then the instruction: prefix Oṁ, put each name in the dative with a salutation, take a clean copper vessel in both hands, kneel, fill it with water, drop in karavīra flowers with red sandal, dūrvā shoots and unbroken rice, raise it to the crown of the head, and bow at each name at sunrise and at sunset. What is promised is unusually blunt — never poverty, and release from grievous disease without medicines, without physicians, and without any restriction of diet.

|| śrī ravi saptati rahasyanāma stotram ||
|| skandapurāṇe kāśīkhaṇḍe navamo'dhyāye ||
haṃso bhānuḥ sahasrāṃśustapanastāpano raviḥ |
vikartano vivasvāṃśca viśvakarmā vibhāvasuḥ || 1 ||
viśvarūpo viśvakartā mārtaṇḍo mihiro'mśumān |
ādityaścoṣṇaguḥ sūryo'ryamā bradhno divākaraḥ || 2 ||
dvādaśātmā saptahayo bhāskaro haskaraḥ khagaḥ |
sūraḥ prabhākaraḥ śrīmān lokacakṣurgraheśvaraḥ || 3 ||
trilokeśo lokasākṣī tamo'riḥ śāśvataḥ śuciḥ |
gabhastihastastīvrāṃśustaraṇiḥ sumahoraṇiḥ || 4 ||
dyumaṇirharidaśvo'rko bhānumān bhayanāśanaḥ |
chandośvo vedavedyaśca bhāsvān pūṣā vṛṣākapiḥ || 5 ||
ekacakraratho mitro mandehāristamisrahā |
daityahā pāpahartā ca dharmo dharmaprakāśakaḥ || 6 ||
helikaścitrabhānuśca kalighnastārkṣyavāhanaḥ |
dikpatiḥ padmanīnāthaḥ kuśeśayakaro hariḥ || 7 ||
gharmaraśmirdurnirīkṣyaścaṇḍāṃśuḥ kaśyapātmajaḥ |
ebhiḥ saptatisaṅkhyākaiḥ puṇyaiḥ sūryasya nāmabhiḥ || 8 ||
praṇavādi caturthyantairnamaskārasamanvitaiḥ |
pratyekamuccarannāma dṛṣṭvādṛṣṭvā divākaram || 9 ||
vigṛhya pāṇiyugmena tāmrapātraṃ sunirmalam |
jānubhyāmavaniṃ gatvā paripūrya jalena ca || 10 ||
karavīrādi kusumai raktacandanamiśritaiḥ |
dūrvāṅkurairakṣataiśca nikṣiptaiḥ pātramadhyataḥ || 11 ||
dadyādarghyamanarghyāya savitre dhyānapūrvakam |
upamauliṃ samānīya tatpātraṃ nānyadṛṅmanāḥ || 12 ||
pratimantraṃ namaskuryādudayāstamaye ravim |
anayā nāmasaptatyā mahāmantrarahasyayā || 13 ||
evaṃ kurvannaro jātu na daridro na duḥkhabhāk |
vyādhibhirmucyate ghorairapijanmāntarārjitaiḥ || 14 ||
vinauṣadhairvinā vaidyairvināpathyaparigrahaiḥ |
kālena nidhanaṃ prāptaḥ sūryaloke mahīyate || 15 ||
|| iti skandapurāṇe kāśīkhaṇḍe navamo'dhyāye
śrī sūrya saptatināma stotram sampūrṇam ||

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