Lord Shani

śrī śani aṣṭottaraśatanāma stotram

(Sri Shani Ashtottara Shatanama Stotram (Bhavishya Purana) in English (IAST))

Also known as shri shani ashtottara shatanama stotram (bhavishya purana) · shree shani ashtottara shatanama stotram (bhavishya purana) · shani ashtottara shatanama stotram (bhavishya purana)

The hundred and eight names of Śani from the Bhaviṣya Purāṇa, and the list is unusually physical — most of the first thirty names describe a body rather than a power. He is Sauri and Śanaiścara, black, dark as the blue lotus; dry-bellied, wide-eyed, hard to look upon, terrifying; dark-throated, blue, the delight of Chāyā's heart; whose glance is time itself, hollow-eyed, his face thick with rough hair; long, his limbs without flesh, dry, dreadful and fearful; blue-rayed, wrathful, fierce, long-bearded, wearing matted hair; slow, of slow motion, lame, never satisfied. The refusal to soften any of it is the character of the text. Its later verses widen him into the whole sky, naming him as Sūrya's son and then as the Sun and the Moon, as Mars, Mercury, Jupiter and Venus, as Rāhu and Ketu, and as Kṛtānta the ender.

|| śrī śani aṣṭottaraśatanāma stotram (bhaviṣyapurāṇe) ||
sauriḥ śanaiścaraḥ kṛṣṇo nīlotpalanibhaḥ śaniḥ |
śuṣkodaro viśālākṣo durnirīkṣyo vibhīṣaṇaḥ || 1 ||
śitikaṇṭhanibho nīlaśchāyāhṛdayanandanaḥ |
kāladṛṣṭiḥ koṭarākṣaḥ sthūlaromāvalīmukhaḥ || 2 ||
dīrgho nirmāṃsagātrastu śuṣko ghoro bhayānakaḥ |
nīlāṃśuḥ krodhano raudro dīrghaśmaśrurjaṭādharaḥ || 3 ||
mando mandagatiḥ khañjo'tṛptaḥ saṃvartako yamaḥ |
graharājaḥ karālī ca sūryaputro raviḥ śaśī || 4 ||
kujo budho guruḥ kāvyo bhānujaḥ siṃhikāsutaḥ |
keturdevapatirbāhuḥ kṛtānto nairṛtastathā || 5 ||
śaśī marut kuberaśca īśānaḥ sura ātmabhūḥ |
viṣṇurharo gaṇapatiḥ kumāraḥ kāma īśvaraḥ || 6 ||
kartā hartā pālayitā rājyeśo rājyadāyakaḥ |
chāyāsutaḥ śyāmalāṅgo dhanahartā dhanapradaḥ || 7 ||
krūrakarmavidhātā ca sarvakarmāvarodhakaḥ |
tuṣṭo ruṣṭaḥ kāmarūpaḥ kāmado ravinandanaḥ || 8 ||
grahapīḍāharaḥ śānto nakṣatreśo graheśvaraḥ |
sthirāsanaḥ sthiragatirmahākāyo mahābalaḥ || 9 ||
mahāprabho mahākālaḥ kālātmā kālakālakaḥ |
ādityabhayadātā ca mṛtyurādityanandanaḥ || 10 ||
śatabhidrukṣadayitā trayodaśītithipriyaḥ |
tithyātmakastithigaṇo nakṣatragaṇanāyakaḥ || 11 ||
yogarāśirmuhūrtātmā kartā dinapatiḥ prabhuḥ |
śamīpuṣpapriyaḥ śyāmastrailokyabhayadāyakaḥ || 12 ||
nīlavāsāḥ kriyāsindhurnīlāñjanacayacchaviḥ |
sarvarogaharo devaḥ siddho devagaṇastutaḥ || 13 ||
|| phalaśruti ||
aṣṭottaraśataṃ nāmnāṃ saureśchāyāsutasya yaḥ |
paṭhennityaṃ tasya pīḍā samastā naśyati dhruvam || 14 ||
|| iti śrībhaviṣyapurāṇe śrī śanaiścara aṣṭottaraśatanāma stotram sampūrṇam ||

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