Kanakadhara Stotram
Kanakadhara Stotram: Mantra with Meaning Kanakadhara Stotram, also known as Suvarnadhara Stotram, is a Sanskrit hymn dedicated to Goddess Lakshmi, the Hindu Goddess of wealth and prosperity (both material and spiritual). Goddess Lakshmi is the divine consort of Lord Vishnu and is believed to protect Her devotees from all kinds of miseries. This hymn was composed by Guru Adi Shankaracharya, a great Indian philosopher who introduced the Advaita Vedanta philosophy. The hymn contains the description of the beauty, personality, power and graciousness of the Goddess. It is believed that Adi Shankaracharya composed this hymn in the praise of Goddess Lakshmi to request Her to shower wealth to a poor woman. Kanakadhara is literally translated as ‘the shower of gold’. Shankaracharya took renunciation at the age of eight. One day, as a young boy, he was begging for alms, and on the process he went to the house of a very poor Brahmin lady to beg. The lady was upset because there was nothing e...