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{{Short description|Hindu work of literature}}
{{Infobox religious text|religion=[[Hinduism]]|author=[[Yamunacharya]]|language=[[Sanskrit]]|caption=Rajput painting of Vishnu upon Garuda.|image=File:8b Vishnu Carried by Garuda Through a Stormy Sky 1775 Kotah Bequest of Mrs. Horace W. Frost.jpg|verses=65|name=<i>''Stotra Ratna</i>''}}{{Italic title}}{{Short description|Hindu work of literature}}
 
The '''''Stotra Ratna''''' ({{Lang-sa|स्तोत्ररत्नम्|translit=Stotraratnam}}), also rendered the '''''Alavandarstotra''''',<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sharma |first=Chandradhar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y3gQVd5WogsC&pg=PA401 |title=A Critical Survey of Indian Philosophy |date=2000 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |isbn=978-81-208-0365-7 |pages=401 |language=en}}</ref> is a [[Sanskrit]] work of [[Hindu texts|Hindu literature]] written by the [[Sri Vaishnavism|Sri Vaishnava]] philosopher [[Yamunacharya]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Pintchman |first1=T. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8boWDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA179 |title=Woman and Goddess in Hinduism: Reinterpretations and Re-envisionings |last2=Sherma |first2=R. |date=2011-08-29 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-0-230-11992-5 |pages=179 |language=en}}</ref> The hymn consists of sixty-five stanzas that extol the deity [[Vishnu]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dasgupta |first=Surendranath |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jI2PUAa8B8oC&pg=PA99 |title=A History of Indian Philosophy |date=1991 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |isbn=978-81-208-0414-2 |pages=99 |language=en}}</ref>
 
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The ninth hymn of this work glorifies the attributes of Vishnu:<ref>{{Cite book |last=Yamunacharya |url=https://archive.org/details/yamunacharya/page/n345/mode/2up |title=Complete Works Of Yamunacharya (English) |pages=346}}</ref>
 
{{Blockquote|text=<i>''kah srih sriyah parama-sattva-samasrayah kah<br>kah pundarika-nayanah purushottamah kah<br>kasyaytutayuta-sataika-kalamsakamse<br>visvam vicitra-cid-acit-pravibhaga-vrittam</i>''}}{{Blockquote|text=Who is the splendor of the goddess of fortune? Who is the shelter of the pure devotees? Who has handsome lotus-eyes? Who is the Supreme Person? In a fraction of a fraction of a hundred-million-millionth part of whom is this world, filled with wonderful spiritual and material variety, manifested?|source=Verse 9|title=<i>''Stotra Ratna</i>''}}The thirty-eighth hymn of the work mentions [[Garuda]], the ''[[vahana]]'' (mount) of the deity:<ref>{{Cite book |last=Yamunacharya |url=http://archive.org/details/yamunacharya |title=Complete Works Of Yamunacharya (English)}}</ref>
{{Blockquote|text=<i>''dasah sakha vahanam asanam dhvajo<br>yas te vitanam vyajanam trayimayah<br> upasthitam tena puro garutmata<br>tvad-anghri-sammarda-kinanka-sobhina</i>''}}{{Blockquote|text=O Lord before whom stands Garuda, who bears Your splendid footprints, and who is Your servant, friend, carrier, throne, flag, canopy, fan, and three Vedas|title=<i>''Stotra Ratna</i>''|source=Verse 38}}
 
== See also ==