Dakshinamurti Varnamala Stotram

Dakshinamurti Varnamala Stotram is attributed to Sri Adi Shankaracharya. Its title points to a garland (mala) woven through the letters (varna) of the Sanskrit alphabet: twenty-four verses each begin with a successive letter, closing with a phala verse in which the Lord is asked to accept the hymn itself.

The stotra praises Dakshinamurti as Om, as the fulfiller of purusharthas, as the teacher holding the chin-mudra, vina, and book, as refuge for beings in the womb and for sages at the banyan root, and as the self-luminous reality beyond all multiplicity. Later verses turn explicitly Vedantic, teaching the inner ruler, the falsity of jiva-isvara division under maya's veil, and the witness consciousness beyond waking, dream, and sleep.

This edition follows the twenty-four varna verses plus the concluding phala (twenty-five stanzas total) as found in standard recensions. The workMeta catalogue figure of thirty-two may reflect an alternate numbering; the text here is complete for the varnamala proper.