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Sri Satyanarayana Swamy Ashtottara Shatanamavali
1. Om Satyadevaaya Namah
2. Om Satyaatmane Namah
3. Om Satyabhootaaya Namah
4. Om Satyapurushaaya Namah
5. Om Satyanaathaaya Namah
6. Om Satyasaakshine Namah
7. Om Satyayogaaya Namah
8. Om Satyajnyaanaaya Namah
9. Om Satyajnyaanapriyaaya Namah
10. Om Satyanidhaye Namah
11. Om Satyasambhavaaya Namah
12. Om Satyaprabhuve Namah
13. Om Satyeshvaraaya Namah
14. Om Satyakarmane Namah
15. Om Satyapavitraaya Namah
16. Om Satyamangalaaya Namah
17. Om Satyagarbhaaya Namah
18. Om Satyaprajaapataye Namah
19. Om Satyavikramaaya Namah
20. Om Satyasiddhaaya Namah
21. Om Satyaachyutaaya Namah
22. Om Satyaveeraaya Namah
23. Om Satyabodhaaya Namah
24. Om Satyadharmaaya Namah
25. Om Satyagrajaaya Namah
26. Om Satyasantushtaaya Namah
27. Om Satyavaraahaaya Namah
28. Om Satyapaaraayanaaya Namah
29. Om Satyapoornaaya Namah
30. Om Satyaushadhaaya Namah
31. Om Satyashaashvataaya Namah
32. Om Satyapravardhanaaya Namah
33. Om Satyavibhave Namah
34. Om Satyajyeshthaaya Namah
35. Om Satyashreshthaaya Namah
36. Om Satyavikramine Namah
37. Om Satyadhanvine Namah
38. Om Satyamedhaaya Namah
39. Om Satyaadheeshaaya Namah
40. Om Satyakratave Namah
41. Om Satyakaalaaya Namah
42. Om Satyavatsalaaya Namah
43. Om Satyavasave Namah
44. Om Satyameghaaya Namah
45. Om Satyarudraaya Namah
46. Om Satyabrahmane Namah
47. Om Satyaamritaaya Namah
48. Om Satyavedaangaaya Namah
49. Om Satyachaturaatmane Namah
50. Om Satyabhoktre Namah
51. Om Satyashuchaye Namah
52. Om Satyaarjitaaya Namah
53. Om Satyendraaya Namah
54. Om Satyasangaraaya Namah
55. Om Satyasvargaaya Namah
56. Om Satyaniyamaaya Namah
57. Om Satyamedhaaya Namah
58. Om Satyavedyaaya Namah
59. Om Satyapeeyooshaaya Namah
60. Om Satyamaayaaya Namah
61. Om Satyamohaaya Namah
62. Om Satyasuraanandaaya Namah
63. Om Satyasaagaraaya Namah
64. Om Satyatapase Namah
65. Om Satyasimhaaya Namah
66. Om Satyamrigaaya Namah
67. Om Satyalokapaalakaaya Namah
68. Om Satyasthitaaya Namah
69. Om Satyadikpaalakaaya Namah
70. Om Satyadhanurdharaaya Namah
71. Om Satyaambujaaya Namah
72. Om Satyavaakyaaya Namah
73. Om Satyagurave Namah
74. Om Satyanyaayaaya Namah
75. Om Satyasaakshine Namah
76. Om Satyasamvritaaya Namah
77. Om Satyasampradaaya Namah
78. Om Satyavahnaye Namah
79. Om Satyavaayave Namah
80. Om Satyashikharaaya Namah
81. Om Satyaanandaaya Namah
82. Om Satyaadhiraajaaya Namah
83. Om Satyashreepaadaaya Namah
84. Om Satyaguhyaaya Namah
85. Om Satyodaraaya Namah
86. Om Satyahridayaaya Namah
87. Om Satyakamalaaya Namah
88. Om Satyanaalaaya Namah
89. Om Satyahastaaya Namah
90. Om Satyabaahave Namah
91. Om Satyamukhaaya Namah
92. Om Satyajihvaaya Namah
93. Om Satyadaumshtraaya Namah
94. Om Satyanaashikaaya Namah
95. Om Satyashrotraaya Namah
96. Om Satyachakshushe Namah
97. Om Satyashirase Namah
98. Om Satyamukutaaya Namah
99. Om Satyaambaraaya Namah
100. Om Satyaabharanaaya Namah
101. Om Satyaayudhaaya Namah
102. Om Satyashreevallabhaaya Namah
103. Om Satyaguptaaya Namah
104. Om Satyapushkaraaya Namah
105. Om Satyadridhaaya Namah
106. Om Satyabhaamaavataarakaaya Namah
107. Om Satyagriharoopine Namah
108. Om Satyapraharanaayudhaaya Namah
Om Satyanaaraayanadevataabhyo Namah
Iti Shree Satyanaaraayana Ashtottara Shatanaamaavalee
Meaning
The hundred and eight names used in the archane portion of the Satyanarayana vrata. The list opens Om Satyadevaya Namah, Om Satyatmane Namah, Om Satyabhutaya Namah, and the word satya keeps returning through it. Families recite it on Purnima evenings, after a wedding, on moving into a new house, and when a vow that was made has finally been kept.
Significance
Those first three names set the terms. This is Vishnu addressed as truth, and the vrata built around him is about a word given and then honoured. Read the katha and the pattern is hard to miss: the poor brahmin, the woodcutter, the merchant Sadhu Vaishya, the cowherd boys. Each of them promises the pooja and then lets it slide. What goes wrong for them afterwards is not punishment for unbelief; it is the consequence of a broken promise. And in every case the remedy is the same, which is to perform the pooja late rather than abandon it.
That is why this particular vrata attaches itself to the moments when a family has something to discharge. A wedding done, a house occupied, an illness passed, a job found after a long wait. The Satyanarayana pooja is the standard way a Kannada household closes the loop on a vow, and the ashtottara is the part where the names are said one by one over tulasi.
The prasada carries the same logic of measure. Rava, sugar, ghee, milk and banana, each in one and a quarter measures, is the traditional proportion, which is why people speak of the savva-ser sheera. Banana is never left out. The katha is firm that the prasada must be received and eaten by everyone present, and the story's sharpest turn comes when it is refused.
How and when to chant
Purnima evening, after sunset, is the usual time. Kartika, Vaishakha and Shravana Purnima are favoured, and so is Ekadashi in some families, but no Purnima is unsuitable. The person keeping the vrata usually eats lightly or not at all until the pooja is over.
The order is fixed and easy. Clean the place and set a low table with a cloth, banana leaves or stems at the corners if the family keeps that custom. Sankalpa first, then Ganesha pooja, then the kalasha, then the reading of the katha in its five chapters, then the ashtottara archane with tulasi, then arati, then prasada given to everyone present without exception.
A purohita is called when a family wants the full procedure with a homa or a formal sankalpa, particularly after a wedding. Plenty of households do it themselves with a printed book, and that has always been acceptable for this vrata. If someone at home reads Kannada well, let them read the katha aloud rather than playing a recording; the five chapters are meant to be heard as a story, and they land differently when a person in the room is telling them.
Frequently asked questions
Why does every name in the Satyanarayana Ashtottara begin with Satya?
At what point in the Satyanarayana pooja are these names recited?
Which other deities does the Satyanarayana namavali fold into Satya?
Why does the Satyanarayana namavali move from the feet to the crown?
How many names does this Satyanarayana Ashtottara actually have?
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