trailokyamaṅgala lakṣmīstotram

Forty-four verses given by their colophon to Shankara — Shiva as the speaker, not the acharya — and named the auspiciousness of the three worlds. The opening is as plain as these hymns get, and gains from it: salutation, goddess who gives welfare; salutation to you, beloved of Hari; salutation, goddess who loves her devotees; Lakshmi Devi, salutation to you. The second verse names the one thing about her that the philosophical hymns dwell on, that her body is taken up out of maya, and then returns at once to the refrain. That refrain — Lakshmi Devi, salutation to you — closes every verse of the forty-four, so the hymn works by accumulation rather than by argument, and it is meant to be recited whole.