Goddess Lakshmi

śrīsūktāṣṭottaraśatanāmāvalī

(Sri Suktha Ashtottara Shatanamavali in English (IAST))

Also known as sri sukta 108 names · sri suktam namavali · hiranyavarnayai namah

A hundred and eight names of Lakshmi for offering, and they are not composed at all: they are lifted straight out of the Shri Sukta, word by word, and turned into salutations. So the archana opens as the hymn does, with the one of golden colour, then the doe, then the one wearing garlands of gold and of silver, the golden one, the one who does not go away, the one preceded by horses and standing in the middle of a chariot and awakened by the trumpeting of elephants. Anyone who knows the Vedic hymn hears it running underneath. That construction is the reason the list has so few ordinary epithets in it and so many odd concrete ones, and it makes the record usable as an archana in a rite where the Shri Sukta itself is being recited over the offering.

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oṃ hiraṇyavarṇāyai namaḥ |
oṃ hariṇyai namaḥ |
oṃ suvarṇasrajāyai namaḥ |
oṃ rajatasrajāyai namaḥ |
oṃ hiraṇmayyai namaḥ |
oṃ anapagāminyai namaḥ |
oṃ aśvapūrvāyai namaḥ |
oṃ rathamadhyāyai namaḥ |
oṃ hastinādaprabodhinyai namaḥ | 9
oṃ śriyai namaḥ |
oṃ devyai namaḥ |
oṃ hiraṇyaprākārāyai namaḥ |
oṃ ārdrāyai namaḥ |
oṃ jvalantyai namaḥ |
oṃ tṛptāyai namaḥ |
oṃ tarpayantyai namaḥ |
oṃ padme sthitāyai namaḥ |
oṃ padmavarṇāyai namaḥ | 18
oṃ candrāṃ prabhāsāyai namaḥ |
oṃ yaśasā jvalantyai namaḥ |
oṃ loke śriyai namaḥ |
oṃ devajuṣṭāyai namaḥ |
oṃ udārāyai namaḥ |
oṃ padminyai namaḥ |
oṃ ādityavarṇāyai namaḥ |
oṃ bilvāyai namaḥ |
oṃ kīrtipradāyai namaḥ | 27
oṃ ṛddhipradāyai namaḥ |
oṃ gandhadvārāyai namaḥ |
oṃ durādharṣāyai namaḥ |
oṃ nityapuṣṭāyai namaḥ |
oṃ karīṣiṇyai namaḥ |
oṃ sarvabhūtānāṃ īśvaryai namaḥ |
oṃ manasaḥ kāmāyai namaḥ |
oṃ vāca ākūtyai namaḥ |
oṃ satyāyai namaḥ | 36
oṃ paśūnāṃ rūpāyai namaḥ |
oṃ annasya yaśase namaḥ |
oṃ mātre namaḥ |
oṃ ārdrāṃ puṣkariṇyai namaḥ |
oṃ puṣṭyai namaḥ |
oṃ piṅgalāyai namaḥ |
oṃ padmamālinyai namaḥ |
oṃ candrāṃ hiraṇmayyai namaḥ |
oṃ ārdrāṃ kariṇyai namaḥ | 45
oṃ yaṣṭyai namaḥ |
oṃ suvarṇāyai namaḥ |
oṃ hemamālinyai namaḥ |
oṃ sūryāṃ hiraṇmayyai namaḥ |
oṃ ānandamātre namaḥ |
oṃ kardamamātre namaḥ |
oṃ ciklītamātre namaḥ |
oṃ śrīdevyai namaḥ |
oṃ padmāsanyai namaḥ | 54
oṃ padmorave namaḥ |
oṃ padmākṣyai namaḥ |
oṃ padmasambhavāyai namaḥ |
oṃ aśvadāyyai namaḥ |
oṃ godāyyai namaḥ |
oṃ dhanadāyyai namaḥ |
oṃ mahādhanyai namaḥ |
oṃ padmapriyāyai namaḥ |
oṃ padminyai namaḥ | 63
oṃ padmahastāyai namaḥ |
oṃ padmālayāyai namaḥ |
oṃ padmadalāyatākṣyai namaḥ |
oṃ viśvapriyāyai namaḥ |
oṃ viṣṇumanonukūlāyai namaḥ |
oṃ padmāsanasthāyai namaḥ |
oṃ vipulakaṭitaṭyai namaḥ |
oṃ padmapatrāyatākṣyai namaḥ |
oṃ gambhīrāvarta nābhyai namaḥ | 72
oṃ stanabharanamitāyai namaḥ |
oṃ śubhravastrottarīyāyai namaḥ |
oṃ hemakumbhaiḥ snāpitāyai namaḥ |
oṃ sarvamāṅgalyayuktāyai namaḥ |
oṃ kṣīrasamudrarājatanayāyai namaḥ |
oṃ śrīraṅgadhāmeśvaryai namaḥ |
oṃ dāsībhūtasamastadevavanitāyai namaḥ |
oṃ lokaikadīpāṅkurāyai namaḥ |
oṃ śrīmanmandakaṭākṣalabdhāyai namaḥ | 81
oṃ vibhavadbrahmendragaṅgādharāyai namaḥ |
oṃ trailokyakuṭumbinyai namaḥ |
oṃ sarasijāyai namaḥ |
oṃ mukundapriyāyai namaḥ |
oṃ siddhalakṣmyai namaḥ |
oṃ mokṣalakṣmyai namaḥ |
oṃ jayalakṣmyai namaḥ |
oṃ sarasvatyai namaḥ |
oṃ śrīlakṣmyai namaḥ | 90
oṃ varalakṣmyai namaḥ |
oṃ varamudrāṃ vahantyai namaḥ |
oṃ aṅkuśaṃ vahantyai namaḥ |
oṃ pāśaṃ vahantyai namaḥ |
oṃ abhītimudrāṃ vahantyai namaḥ |
oṃ kamalāsanasthāyai namaḥ |
oṃ bālārkakoṭipratibhāyai namaḥ |
oṃ trinetrāyai namaḥ |
oṃ ādyāyai namaḥ | 99
oṃ jagadīśvaryai namaḥ |
oṃ sarvamaṅgalamāṅgalyai namaḥ |
oṃ śivāyai namaḥ |
oṃ sarvārtha sādhikāyai namaḥ |
oṃ tryambakāyai namaḥ |
oṃ nārāyaṇyai namaḥ |
oṃ mahādevyai namaḥ |
oṃ viṣṇupatnyai namaḥ |
oṃ lakṣmyai namaḥ | 108

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