Stōtram
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śrīkr̥ṣṇaḥ kamalānāthō vāsudēvaḥ sanātanaḥ
vasudēvātmajaḥ puṇyō līlāmānuṣavigrahaḥ
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śrīvatsakaustubhadharō yaśōdāvatsalō hariḥ
caturbhujāttacakrāsigadāśaṅkhādyudāyudhaḥ
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dēvakīnandanaḥ śrīśō nandagōpapriyātmajaḥ
yamunāvēgasaṁhārī balabhadrapriyānujaḥ
4
pūtanājīvitaharaḥ śakaṭāsurabhañjanaḥ
nandavrajajanānandī saccidānandavigrahaḥ
5
navanītaviliptāṅgō navanītanaṭō:'naghaḥ
navanītanavāhārō mucukundaprasādakaḥ
Phalaśruti
26
putrapautraiḥ parivr̥taḥ sarvasiddhisamr̥ddhimān
nirviśya bhōgānantē:'pi kr̥ṣṇasāyujyamāpnunāt
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iti śrīnāradapāñcarātrē jñānāmr̥tasārē umāmahēśvara saṁvādē dharaṇī śēṣa saṁvādē śrī kr̥ṣṇāṣṭōttaraśatanāma stōtram
Reading it in Roman letters
This is the Krishna Ashtottara Shatanama in Roman letters with diacritic marks, the system used to write Sanskrit sounds exactly. It is a garland of Krishna's hundred and eight names, drawn from the Narada Pancharatra, and each name is a small window onto him: the child of Gokula who stole butter, the boy who lifted a mountain, the charioteer who taught the Gita to Arjuna. People chant the names on Krishna Janmashtami and through the year, for a quiet mind, for the wellbeing of children, or simply out of love. Krishna is adored across the world, at Udupi, Guruvayur and Dwarka, in Vrindavan, and through movements like ISKCON, which carried his name to every continent, and the Chinmaya Mission. The diacritics do simple work: a line above a vowel holds it longer, and a dot beneath a letter marks the retroflex sounds made with the tongue curled back. Read exactly what is printed and the names come out as they would from Devanagari.