Lakshmi Ashtakam
Contents
- Verse 1The First Bow, and Four Things in Her Hands
- Verse 2Mounted on Garuda
- Verse 3The Verse That Says All, Four Times
- Verse 4Enjoyment and Release, in One Word
- Verse 5Names That Belong to Other Goddesses Too
- Verse 6Gross, Subtle, and Terrible
- Verse 7The Largest Claim in the Stotra
- Verse 8White Cloth, and the Eighth Bow
- Verse 9What the Stotra Says Comes of Saying It
- Verse 10Once a Day, Then Twice
- Verse 11Three Times a Day, and the Line About Enemies
Deeper
This is not a song with a story in it. Structurally it is a list of names with a bow after each, eight times, and a reader who expects development will think nothing is happening. Something is happening, but it happens in the names.
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