Śrī Jvālāvatī Ayuta-nāma

Śrī Jvālāvatī Ayuta-nāma sets down the ten thousand eight hundred names of Śrī Jvālāvatī, composed by Maharṣi Viṣṇu. Each name is given as a ready formula of offering in three layers: the Devanāgarī, the IAST transliteration and the meaning. The book is arranged as a year-long circle of home pūjā: thirty names a day for three hundred and sixty days, at the hour of the junction, at sunset or at dawn. It opens with the editors plain instructions: the place and the altar, the offering of the vartikā, reading in a whisper, the beginning and the completion of the circle. Before each days names stand the protective Gāyatrī-Śakti, the viniyoga and the open link mantra. The names…