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Sri Veda Vyasa Ashtottara Shatanamavali
1. Om Vedavyaasaaya Namah
2. Om Vishnuroopaaya Namah
3. Om Paaraasharyaaya Namah
4. Om Taponidhaye Namah
5. Om Satyasandhaaya Namah
6. Om Prashaantaatmane Namah
7. Om Vaagmine Namah
8. Om Satyavateesutaaya Namah
9. Om Krishnadvaipaayanaaya Namah
10. Om Daantaaya Namah
11. Om Baadaraayanasanjnyitaaya Namah
12. Om Brahmasootragrathitavate Namah
13. Om Bhagavate Namah
14. Om Jnyaanabhaaskaraaya Namah
15. Om Sarvavedaantatattvajnyaaya Namah
16. Om Sarvajnyaaya Namah
17. Om Vedamoortimate Namah
18. Om Vedashaakhaavyasanakrite Namah
19. Om Kritakrityaaya Namah
20. Om Mahaamunaye Namah
21. Om Mahaabuddhaye Namah
22. Om Mahaasiddhaye Namah
23. Om Mahaashaktaye Namah
24. Om Mahaadyutaye Namah
25. Om Mahaakarmane Namah
26. Om Mahaadharmane Namah
27. Om Mahaabhaaratakalpakaaya Namah
28. Om Mahaapuraanakrite Namah
29. Om Jnyaanine Namah
30. Om Jnyaanavijnyaanabhaajanaaya Namah
31. Om Chiranjeevine Namah
32. Om Chidaakaaraaya Namah
33. Om Chittadoshavinaashakaaya Namah
34. Om Vaasishthaaya Namah
35. Om Shaktipautraaya Namah
36. Om Shukadevagurave Namah
37. Om Gurave Namah
38. Om Aashaadhapoornimaapoojyaaya Namah
39. Om Poornachandranibhaananaaya Namah
40. Om Vishvanaathastutikaraaya Namah
41. Om Vishvavandyaaya Namah
42. Om Jagadgurave Namah
43. Om Jitendriyaaya Namah
44. Om Jitakrodhaaya Namah
45. Om Vairaagyanirataaya Namah
46. Om Shuchaye Namah
47. Om Jaiminyaadisadaachaaryaaya Namah
48. Om Sadaachaarasadaasthitaaya Namah
49. Om Sthitaprajnyaaya Namah
50. Om Sthiramataye Namah
51. Om Samaadhisamsthitaashayaaya Namah
52. Om Prashaantidaaya Namah
53. Om Prasannaatmane Namah
54. Om Shankaraaryaprasaadakrite Namah
55. Om Naaraayanaatmakaaya Namah
56. Om Stavyaaya Namah
57. Om Sarvalokahite Rataaya Namah
58. Om Achaturvadanabrahmane Namah
59. Om Dvibhujaaparakeshavaaya Namah
60. Om Aphaalalochanashivaaya Namah
61. Om Parabrahmasvaroopakaaya Namah
62. Om Brahmanyaaya Namah
63. Om Braahmanaaya Namah
64. Om Brahmine Namah
65. Om Brahmavidyaavishaaradaaya Namah
66. Om Brahmaatmaikatvavijnyaatre Namah
67. Om Brahmabhootaaya Namah
68. Om Sukhaatmakaaya Namah
69. Om Vedaabjabhaaskaraaya Namah
70. Om Vidushe Namah
71. Om Vedavedaantapaaragaaya Namah
72. Om Apaantaratamonaamne Namah
73. Om Vedaachaaryaaya Namah
74. Om Vichaaravate Namah
75. Om Ajnyaanasuptibuddhaatmane Namah
76. Om Prasuptaanaam Prabodhakaaya Namah
77. Om Apramattaaya Namah
78. Om Aprameyaatmane Namah
79. Om Maunine Namah
80. Om Brahmapade Rataaya Namah
81. Om Pootaatmane Namah
82. Om Sarvabhootaatmane Namah
83. Om Bhootimate Namah
84. Om Bhoomipaavanaaya Namah
85. Om Bhootabhavyabhavajjnyaatre Namah
86. Om Bhoomasamsthitamaanasaaya Namah
87. Om Utphullapundareekaakshaaya Namah
88. Om Pundareekaakshavigrahaaya Namah
89. Om Navagrahastutikaraaya Namah
90. Om Parigrahavivarjitaaya Namah
91. Om Ekaantavaasasupreetaaya Namah
92. Om Shamaadinilaayaaya Namah
93. Om Munaye Namah
94. Om Ekadantasvaroopena Lipikaarine Namah
95. Om Brihaspataye Namah
96. Om Bhasmarekhaaviliptaangaaya Namah
97. Om Rudraakshaavalibhooshitaaya Namah
98. Om Jnyaanamudraalasatpaanaye Namah
99. Om Smitavaktraaya Namah
100. Om Jataadharaaya Namah
101. Om Gabheeraatmane Namah
102. Om Sudheeraatmane Namah
103. Om Svaatmaaraamaaya Namah
104. Om Ramaapataye Namah
105. Om Mahaatmane Namah
106. Om Karunaasindhave Namah
107. Om Anirdeshyaaya Namah
108. Om Svaraajitaaya Namah
Iti Shree Vedavyaasa Ashtottara Shatanaamaavali
Meaning
Who the names describe
The Sri Veda Vyasa Ashtottara Shatanamavali gives 108 names of the sage Krishna Dvaipayana, each offered with Om and namah for archana. It opens with Vedavyasa and Vishnurupa, treating him from the first line as a form of Vishnu, and then fills in his family through Parasharya, Satyavatisuta, Vasishtha, Shaktipautra and Shukadevaguru.
His work
A long run of names lists what tradition credits him with. He divided the Veda into its shakhas, wrote the Brahma Sutras as Badarayana, gave shape to the Mahabharata and composed the Puranas. The name Ekadantasvarupena lipikarine recalls Ganesha as his scribe, and two others call him the author of hymns to Vishwanatha and to the Navagrahas. Jaiminyadi sadacharya marks him as the teacher of Jaimini and the other disciples who carried the Vedas forward.
The sage himself
Other names describe the man rather than his books. He is a muni who loves solitude, owns nothing and has mastered anger and the senses, and he sits with the jnana mudra, smeared with ash and wearing rudraksha, his hair matted and his face smiling. Three names call him Brahma without four faces, Keshava with two arms and Shiva without the forehead eye. Apantaratamonamne refers to Apantaratamas, the name tradition gives to an earlier birth of the same sage.
When it is chanted
The name Ashadhapurnimapujya points straight to Vyasa Purnima, the Guru Purnima of Ashadha. On that day sannyasis worship Vyasa before beginning Chaturmasya, and households and Veda pathashalas read these names in honour of the first teacher of the tradition.
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