Lord Vishnu

śrī viṣṇu stutiḥ (vipra kṛtam)

(Sri Vishnu Stuti (Vipra Krutam) in English (IAST))

Also known as shri vishnu stuti (vipra krutam) · shree vishnu stuti (vipra krutam) · vishnu stuti (vipra krutam)

Fourteen verses of salutation, ascribed in the title to a brahmin and otherwise unattributed, made up almost entirely of names in the dative. Lord of the lords of the gods, tender to those devoted to you, heap of compassion, whose stride is joy; to Govinda, to the lord of the gods, to the unfallen and the undecaying, to Krishna, to Vasudeva, to the overseer of everything and its witness; to the highest person, to the pure, to the lotus-navelled, to the shining. Late in the sequence he is saluted as one who takes many forms and is divided in many ways, and the last line drops the third person for a direct address, asking Vishnu, the maker of compassion, to protect the one speaking.

|| śrī viṣṇu stutiḥ (vipra kṛtam) ||
namaste devadeveśa namaste bhaktavatsala |
namaste karuṇārāśe namaste nandavikrama || 1 ||
govindāya sureśāya acyutāyā'vyayāya ca |
kṛṣṇāya vāsudevāya sarvādhyakṣāya sākṣiṇe || 2 ||
lokasthāya hṛdisthāya akṣarāyā''tmane namaḥ |
anantāyādibījāya ādyāyā'khilarūpiṇe || 3 ||
yajñāya yajñapataye mādhavāya murāraye |
jalasthāya sthalasthāya sarvagāyā'malātmane || 4 ||
saccidrūpāya saumyāya namaḥ sarvāghanāśine |
namaḥ kālāya kalaye kāmitārthapradāya ca || 5 ||
namo dāntāya śāntāya viṣṇave jiṣṇave namaḥ |
viśveśāya viśālāya vedhase viśvavāsine || 6 ||
surādhyakṣāya siddhāya śrīdharāya namo namaḥ |
hṛṣīkeśāya dhairyāya namaste mokṣadāyine || 7 ||
puruṣottamāya puṇyāya padmanābhāya bhāsvate |
āgresarāya tūlāya āgresarāyātmane namaḥ || 8 ||
janārdanāya jaitrāya jitāmitrāya jīvine |
vedavedyāya viśvāya nārasiṃhāya te namaḥ || 9 ||
jñānāya jñānarūpāya jñānadāyākhilātmane |
dhurandharāya dhuryāya dharādhārāyate namaḥ || 10 ||
nārāyaṇāya śarvāya rākṣasānīkavairiṇe |
guhyāya guhyapataye gurave guṇadhāriṇe || 11 ||
kāruṇyāya śaraṇyāya kāntāyā'mṛtamūrtaye |
keśavāya namaste'stu namo dāmodarāya ca || 12 ||
saṅkarṣaṇāya śarvāya namastrailokyapāline |
bhaktapriyāya haraye namaḥ sarvārtināśine || 13 ||
nānābhedavibhedāya nānārūpadharāya ca |
namaste bhagavān viṣṇo pāhi māṃ karuṇākara || 14 ||
|| iti śrī viṣṇu stutiḥ sampūrṇam ||

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