
श्री सुवर्चला अष्टोत्तरशतनामावली
(Sri Suvarchala Ashtottara Shatanamavali)
Also known as shri suvarchala ashtottara shatanamavali · shree suvarchala ashtottara shatanamavali · suvarchala ashtottara shatanamavali
A hundred and eight names of Suvarchala, and the second name in the list is the one that startles readers who know Hanuman only as a celibate: the wife of Anjaneya. The tradition these names belong to, kept at Khammam and a few other shrines in the Telugu country, holds that he married the Sun's daughter at his teacher's insistence and that the marriage left his celibacy untouched, since she was made of the Sun's own light rather than of flesh. The list gives her that parentage immediately, the daughter of Surya, and then the qualities the name points at, since suvarchala means the well-lustred one: spotless, power itself, eternal, stainless, steady. She is also called Lakshmi outright in the third name, which places her as the consort-goddess rather than as a local figure.
Script: Devanagari (देवनागरी) — also the script of Hindi, Marathi, Nepali and Konkani.