Ashtalakshmi Stotra
The Ashtalakshmi Stotra, also rendered the Ashta Lakshmi Stotram, is a Hindu mantra. It extols the eight aspects of the goddess Lakshmi, designated as the Ashta Lakshmi, regarded to represent the eight forms of wealth.
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The Ashtalakshmi Stotra was composed and published in the early 1970s in Chennai by U.V. Srinivasa Varadachariyar, a theologian of the Sri Vaishnava tradition. The hymn was popularised through its distribution via audiocassettes in the 1980s. Devotees regard each of the Ashta Lakshmi to represent an attribute of Lakshmi, gaining the favour of the goddess with the chanting of each stanza of the prayer. The eight aspects of Lakshmi that are venerated by the mantra are:- Adi Lakshmi
- Dhanya Lakshmi
- Dhairya Lakshmi
- Gaja Lakshmi
- Santana Lakshmi
- Vijaya Lakshmi
- Vidya Lakshmi
- Dhana Lakshmi