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Sri Lakshmi Ashtottara Shatanamavali
1. Om Prakrityai Namah
2. Om Vikrityai Namah
3. Om Vidyaayai Namah
4. Om Sarvabhootahitapradaayai Namah
5. Om Shraddhaayai Namah
6. Om Vibhootyai Namah
7. Om Surabhyai Namah
8. Om Paramaatmikaayai Namah
9. Om Vaache Namah
10. Om Padmaalayaayai Namah
11. Om Padmaayai Namah
12. Om Shuchaye Namah
13. Om Svaahaayai Namah
14. Om Svadhaayai Namah
15. Om Sudhaayai Namah
16. Om Dhanyaayai Namah
17. Om Hiranmayyai Namah
18. Om Lakshmyai Namah
19. Om Nityapusht'aayai Namah
20. Om Vibhaavaryai Namah
21. Om Adityai Namah
22. Om Dityai Namah
23. Om Deeptaayai Namah
24. Om Vasudhaayai Namah
25. Om Vasudhaarinyai Namah
26. Om Kamalaayai Namah
27. Om Kaantaayai Namah
28. Om Kaamaakshyai
29. Om Krodhasambhavaayai
30. Om Anugrahapradaayai Namah
31. Om Buddhaye Namah
32. Om Anaghaayai Namah
33. Om Harivallabhaayai Namah
34. Om Ashokaayai Namah
35. Om Amritaayai Namah
36. Om Deeptaayai
37. Om Lokashokavinaashinyai Namah
38. Om Dharmanilayaayai Namah
39. Om Karunaayai Namah
40. Om Lokamaatre Namah
41. Om Padmapriyaayai Namah
42. Om Padmahastaayai Namah
43. Om Padmaakshyai Namah
44. Om Padmasundaryai Namah
45. Om Padmodbhavaayai
46. Om Padmamukhyai Namah
47. Om Padmanaabhapriyaayai Namah
48. Om Ramaayai Namah
49. Om Padmamaalaadharaayai Namah
50. Om Devyai Namah
51. Om Padminyai Namah
52. Om Padmagandhinyai Namah
53. Om Punyagandhaayai Namah
54. Om Suprasannaayai
55. Om Prasaadaabhimukhyai Namah
56. Om Prabhaayai Namah
57. Om Chandravadanaayai Namah
58. Om Chandraayai Namah
59. Om Chandrasahodaryai Namah
60. Om Chaturbhujaayai Namah
61. Om Chandraroopaayai Namah
62. Om Indiraayai Namah
63. Om Indusheetalaayai
64. Om Aahlaadajananyai Namah
65. Om Pusht'yai Namah
66. Om Shivaayai Namah
67. Om Shivakaryai Namah
68. Om Satyai Namah
69. Om Vimalaayai Namah
70. Om Vishvajananyai Namah
71. Om Tusht'yai Namah
72. Om Daaridryanaashinyai
73. Om Preetipushkarinyai Namah
74. Om Shaantaayai Namah
75. Om Shuklamaalyaambaraayai Namah
76. Om Shriyai Namah
77. Om Bhaaskaryai Namah
78. Om Bilvanilayaayai Namah
79. Om Varaarohaayai Namah
80. Om Yashasvinyai Namah
81. Om Vasundharaayai
82. Om Udaaraangaayai Namah
83. Om Harinyai Namah
84. Om Hemamaalinyai Namah
85. Om Dhanadhaanyakaryai Namah
86. Om Siddhaye Namah
87. Om Strainasaumyaayai Namah
88. Om Shubhapradaayai Namah
89. Om Nripaveshmagataanandaayai Namah
90. Om Varalakshmyai Namah
91. Om Vasupradaayai Namah
92. Om Shubhaayai Namah
93. Om Hiranyapraakaaraayai Namah
94. Om Samudratanayaayai Namah
95. Om Jayaayai Namah
96. Om Mangal'aa Devyai Namah
97. Om Vishnuvakshahsthalasthitaayai Namah
98. Om Vishnupatnyai Namah
99. Om Prasannaakshyai
100. Om Naaraayanasamaashritaayai Namah
101. Om Daaridryadhvamsinyai Namah
102. Om Devyai Namah
103. Om Sarvopadravavaarinyai Namah
104. Om Navadurgaayai Namah
105. Om Mahaakaalyai Namah
106. Om Brahmaavishnushivaatmikaayai Namah
107. Om Trikaalajnyaanasampannaayai Namah
108. Om Bhuvaneshvaryai
Iti Shree Lakshmi Ashtottara Shatanaamaavali
Meaning
One hundred and eight names of Lakshmi, said one at a time with a pinch of kumkuma or a flower offered at each. The list does not open with a title of wealth. It opens with Om Prakrityai Namah, Om Vikrityai Namah, Om Vidyaayai Namah — nature, nature's change, and knowledge. In Karnataka it is used on Fridays, at the Varamahalakshmi vrata in Shravana, and at the Deepavali Lakshmi puja.
Significance
Read the names in order and the picture that forms is wider than money. Shraddha, faith. Buddhi, intelligence. Anagha, the faultless one. Dharmanilaya, the one in whom dharma rests. Svaha and Svadha — she is the very utterance by which an offering reaches the gods and the ancestors, which is to say nothing given reaches anyone without her. Kshirodasambhava keeps the churning of the milk-ocean in view, and the string of Padma names — Padmapriya, Padmahasta, Padmakshi, Padmasundari — fixes the lotus as her seat, her hand, her eye. Tradition holds that archana with these names steadies a household's sustenance rather than making it suddenly rich, and the names themselves support that reading: what is asked for is order, not a windfall.
How and when to chant
Friday evening, after the lamp is lit, is the usual time; Friday morning after a bath does as well. Seat a kalasha with a coconut, or the silver face of the goddess many Karnataka families keep for the vrata, and say the names one by one, offering kumkuma at each — kumkumarchane is how women here have always done it. Red or pink flowers, and lotus when the season gives it. Those who count use a lotus-seed mala. The Varamahalakshmi vrata falls on the Friday before the full moon of Shravana, and the whole hundred and eight are said then before the offering of payasa and five fruits. On Deepavali amavasya evening, shops and account books get the same archana.
Frequently asked questions
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