108 names of Lakshmi with meaning

All 108 names of Lakshmi with meaning

Numbered in the order they are recited. The first column gives the name and the line it is offered with; the second, its transliteration.

How the 108 names of Lakshmi are recited

1. Sit before an image of Lakshmi, or simply face east, after a bath if you can.
2. Say each line in turn — Om, the name, namah — and if you are doing an archana, offer a flower, a leaf or a few grains of rice with each name.
3. Keep an even pace. A name said with attention is the point of the practice; speed is not.
4. Close with a moment of silence, and with aarti if it is part of your worship.

Lakshmi mantras with meaning

Source of this list of Lakshmi's 108 names

श्रीलक्ष्म्यष्टोत्तरशतनामावलिः — Namavali form of the Lakshmi Ashtottarashatanama Stotram, which the editions frame as Ishvara (Shiva) reciting the names at the Goddess's request; the sources consulted do not name a parent text.

The Sanskrit is traditional and in the public domain. We compared two independently published editions name by name and settled every difference against a third; the editions are listed below. The meanings are written for this site.

• sanskritdocuments.org — श्रीलक्ष्म्यष्टोत्तरशतनामावली (लक्ष्म्यष्टोत्तरशतनामावलिः १)
• vignanam.org — श्री महा लक्ष्मी अष्टोत्तर शत नामावलि

Where editions differ, this page follows the reading most sources give; the other reading is noted:

• 29. क्रोधसम्भवायै — also read as क्षीरोदसम्भवायै
• 30. अनुग्रहप्रदायै — also read as अनुग्रहपरायै
• 65. पुष्ट्यै — also read as पुष्टायै
• 71. तुष्ट्यै — also read as तुष्टायै
• 96. मङ्गलादेव्यै — also read as मङ्गलायै देव्यै
• 106. ब्रह्मविष्णुशिवात्मिकायै — also read as ब्रह्माविष्णुशिवात्मिकायै

A short meaning cannot hold everything an epithet carries; where a name has several senses, the commonest is given.