śrī subrahmaṇya ṣaḍakṣarāṣṭottaraśatanāmāvalī

A hundred and eight names of Subrahmanya arranged as an acrostic on his six-syllabled mantra, and the record marks the joints: the list is divided into blocks and each block is headed by the syllable its names begin with. So the sha names come first — the refuge, Sharva's son, born in the thicket of reeds, moon-faced, bright with the crescent for a crown, holding arrow and bow — then the ra names, foremost in battle, crusher of the strength of demons, knower of secrets, anointed with red sandal, three-eyed with sun and moon and fire; then the va names, of the form of a young brahmachari, worshipped in the spring, the younger brother of the curved-trunked one, ordainer of the classes and the stages of life. Read straight down the headings, the mantra spells itself out.