Illustration for Minakshi Stotram on warm parchment

Complete · ~5 min chant

Minakshi Stotram

Mīnākṣīstotram

Eight verses to the fish-eyed Goddess of Madurai, enthroned in Sri Vidya beside Lord Sundaresha.

All verses

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  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. 6
  7. 7
  8. 8
About this stotra

Minakshi Stotram is attributed to Sri Adi Shankaracharya and praises the Goddess as Meenakshi, the fish-eyed Devi who rules from the Sri Vidya seat at Madurai beside Shiva as Sundareshwara. Each verse closes with the refrain: protect me, O Meenakshi.

The hymn gathers images of the Goddess at midday worship, as Garuda to poverty's serpent, with noose and goad, seated on the blue lotus, and finally as sound-Brahman, light-Brahman, and Shiva-nature itself. This edition presents the eight-verse recension with Devanagari, IAST, and editorial focus notes.