|| shree maarammadevi asht'ottara shatanaamaaval'i ||

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1. om maarammadevyai namah'
2. om maananeeyaayai namah'
3. om matidaayai namah'
4. om madiraayai namah'
5. om manibhooshanaayai namah'
6. om mahaachitraayai namah'
7. om manojavaayai namah'
8. om mund'amekhalaayai namah'
9. om mund'aavatam'sinyai namah'
10. om madonmattaayai namah'
11. om madotkat'aayai namah'
12. om mund'amaalinyai namah'
13. om mahaasvanaayai namah'
14. om madhumayyai namah'
15. om mahokshitaayai namah'
16. om mahaanandaayai namah'
17. om mahaagreevaayai namah'
18. om mahaamudgarahastaayai namah'
19. om mahaachand'ayogeshvaryai namah'
20. om mahaahanave namah'
21. om mahaachand'abhairavyai namah'
22. om manthaanabhairavyai namah'
23. om mahaamantreshvaryai namah'
24. om manjeeraayai namah'
25. om mahaarnaveshvaryai namah'
26. om mahaaneelapataakikaayai namah'
27. om mahaavaktraayai namah'
28. om mahaajat'aayai namah'
29. om mahaapaadaayai namah'
30. om mahaahastaayai namah'
31. om mahaabalaayai namah'
32. om mahaasheshaayai namah'
33. om mahaadhairyaayai namah'
34. om mahaaghri'naayai namah'
35. om mahaakshamaayai namah'
36. om mri'tyunjayaayai namah'
37. om mri'tyuharyai namah'
38. om mri'tyumri'tyuvidhaayinyai namah'
39. om maaheshvaryai namah'
40. om mahaamaayaayai namah'
41. om mahaatejase namah'
42. om mahaasuryai namah'
43. om mahaajihvaayai namah'
44. om mahaalolaayai namah'
45. om mahaadam'sht'raayai namah'
46. om mahaabhujaayai namah'
47. om mahaamohaandhakaaraghnyai namah'
48. om mahaamokshapradaayinyai namah'
49. om mahaadaaridryashamanyai namah'
50. om mahaashatruvimardinyai namah'
51. om mahaashaktyai namah'
52. om mahaajyotishe namah'
53. om mahaasuravimardinyai namah'
54. om mahaakaayaayai namah'
55. om mahaaveeryaayai namah'
56. om mahaapaatakanaashinyai namah'
57. om mahaaravaayai namah'
58. om mantamaryyai namah'
59. om manipooranivaasinyai namah'
60. om maaninyai namah'
61. om maanadaayai namah'
62. om maanyaayai namah'
63. om manashchakshuragocharaayai namah'
64. om maahendryai namah'
65. om madhuraayai namah'
66. om maayaayai namah'
67. om mahishaasuramardinyai namah'
68. om mahaakund'alinyai namah'
69. om mahaavibhavavardhinyai namah'
70. om maanasyai namah'
71. om maadhavyai namah'
72. om matidaayai namah'
73. om matidhaarinyai namah'
74. om matyai namah'
75. om mahodaryai namah'
76. om muktakeshyai namah'
77. om muktikaamyaarthasiddhidaayai namah'
78. om maaheshyai namah'
79. om mahishaarood'haayai namah'
80. om madhudaityavimardinyai namah'
81. om mahaavrataayai namah'
82. om mahaamoordhaayai namah'
83. om mahaabhayavinaashinyai namah'
84. om mattamaatangyai namah'
85. om maatangakulamand'itaayai namah'
86. om mahaaghoraayai namah'
87. om manoramaayai namah'
88. om mattamaatangagaaminyai namah'
89. om muktaahaaralatopetaayai namah'
90. om maatangyai namah'
91. om madadhoornitalochanaayai namah'
92. om mahaaparaadhaashighnyai namah'
93. om mahaachorabhayaapahaayai namah'
94. om mahaachintyasvaroopaayai namah'
95. om manimantramahaushadhyai namah'
96. om manimand'apamadhyasthaayai namah'
97. om manimaalaaviraajitaayai namah'
98. om mantraatmikaayai namah'
99. om mantragamyaayai namah'
100. om mantramaatre namah'
101. om madaroopaayai namah'
102. om madotkat'aayai namah'
103. om makaraakri'tikund'alaayai namah'
104. om mantharaayai namah'
105. om mahaasookshmaayai namah'
106. om mahaadootyai namah'
107. om maheshvaryai namah'
108. om maalinyai namah'

|| iti shree maarammadevi asht'ottara shatanaamaaval'i ||

Meaning

Sri Maramma Devi Ashtottara Shatanamavali is a list of a hundred and eight numbered names, opening om maarammadevyai namah and closing om malinyai namah. Maramma is a grama devate - a village goddess - and hers is the gudi at the edge of the village rather than the big temple at its centre. Across old Karnataka villages she is the mother the place itself belongs to.

Significance

Grama devate worship runs on a different track from agamic temple worship, and it is worth being clear about the difference. Maramma's shrine is often a small structure, sometimes only a stone under a neem tree; the village runs her worship, and the priest, where there is one, is frequently not a brahmana but a hereditary servant of the goddess drawn from the village itself. She is the one addressed when fever goes through the houses, when the cattle sicken, when the rain does not come. Neem is her tree and her sign - neem leaves in the hand, tied at the door, laid on the sick. The name itself is read differently in different districts: some hear mari as epidemic, some simply hear mari-amma, mother. A 108-name list of the kind on this page is a later, Sanskritic layer laid over an older worship, which is why it ends on Malini and not on a village epithet. Both layers are real and both are in use.

How and when to chant

Tuesday and Friday are her days. The village jatre falls in the hot months before the rains, in Chaitra or Vaishakha, when the karaga or the bandi goes round the village and the boundary is honoured. Offerings are simple and mostly cooling: neem leaves, turmeric, kumkuma, water poured at the shrine, and in many villages a plain ragi ambali. Practice at the jatre varies a great deal between places, animal offerings included; households that keep only turmeric, neem and a lamp are equally within the tradition. At home, light a lamp, put neem before the image, and go through the 108 names with turmeric or kumkuma at each. No initiation and no priest is needed for that.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Maramma Devi?

A grama devate, the goddess of the village itself, worshipped widely across Karnataka. Her shrine usually stands at the edge of the village rather than in its centre, often under a neem tree, and the village community - not an agamic priesthood - keeps her worship going.

What does the name Maramma mean?

Readings differ by district. Some hear mari as epidemic or pestilence, which fits the way she is invoked when sickness passes through a village. Others simply take mari-amma as mother. Neither reading has displaced the other, and both are heard from devotees in the same taluk.

Why is neem used in her worship?

Neem is her tree. Leaves are held in the hand at the shrine, tied at doorways, and laid on those who are ill. The plant is cooling and antiseptic in household use, and in her worship that practical sense and the sacred one have never been separate.

Which day is kept for Maramma?

Tuesday and Friday, as with most Devi worship in Karnataka. The big observance is the village jatre in the hot months before the rains, usually Chaitra or Vaishakha, with the karaga or bandi taken round the village and the boundary honoured.

Is Maramma the same as Durga or Parvati?

Many devotees identify her as a form of the great Devi, and a 108-name list like this one reflects that identification. Others hold her as the goddess of that village and no other. Both views are held sincerely and the tradition has never insisted on settling the question.

Can city devotees do the archana at home?

Yes. Light a lamp, place neem leaves before the image or photograph, and offer turmeric or kumkuma at each of the 108 names. It takes about ten minutes. Many families who have moved away keep this on Tuesdays and return to the village only for the jatre.

Does her worship require a priest?

Not at home. At the village shrine the service is often hereditary and held by a family from the village itself rather than by a brahmana archaka, which is one of the ways grama devate worship differs from temple worship under agama rules.

Is Maramma the same as Yellamma or Marikamba?

They are distinct goddesses whose worship overlaps in style - turmeric, neem, Tuesday and Friday, a summer jatre. Yellamma of Saundatti and Marikamba of Sirsi each have their own kshetra, songs and devotees. Local tellings sometimes connect them; the shrines remain separate.

|| shree maarammadevi asht'ottara shatanaamaaval'i ||

Meaning

Significance

How and when to chant

Frequently Asked Questions

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