नित्यस्तोत्रपुष्पमालिका nityastotrapuṣpamālikā

This is a complete companion for daily worship: fifty sections of sacred Saṃskṛta hymns gathered into the order of a devotee’s day.

The collection opens with the morning mantras (prātaḥkālīna mantrāḥ): karadarśana, the verse recited on first looking at one’s hands at dawn; bhūmi kṣamā, asking the earth’s pardon before setting foot upon it; the prayers of bathing and the sūrya namaskāra; and the gāyatrī. It then turns to the reverence of the guru and the remembrance of one’s forebears.

From there it gathers the great hymns of the tradition – the gāyatrī mantras of thirty deities, and then the stotras: of Gaṇeśa and Śiva; of the Goddess as Durgā, Lakṣmī, Sarasvatī and Tripurasundarī; of Viṣṇu, Rāma and Hanumān; of Kṛṣṇa; of Sūrya; and of the nine planets, the navagraha.

Every hymn is set in four registers – the original in Devanāgarī, a full IAST transliteration, and its meaning in Hindī and in English – so it can be read aloud, followed syllable by syllable, and understood.