

When the King came back to Sri Vadiraja, Swamiji smilingly told him that though the Lakshmi Hrudaya was a very powerful stotra, it was cursed by Lakshmi herself. Their contention was that the “Lakshmi Hrudaya” stotra was more powerful and forced the King to perform the 1000 repetitions using Lakshmi Hrudaya instead of the stotra. Some other scholars present with the King objected to this. Sri Vadiraja asked the King to chant this combination one thousand times! Starting with the stotra, the King was to chant the Narayana Varma next and then the stotra once again. He asked the King to chant the stotra and “Narayana Kavacha” in the form of a mala.

Sri Vadiraja then composed the Shri Shrisha Gunadarpana Stotra and taught him a certain method of chanting the same. He approached Sri Vadiraja Swamy and pleaded for help.

The King of the Vijayanagara kingdom, Achyuta Raya lost all his wealth in the treasury. The circumstances under which Sri Vadiraja Swamy composed the Shri Shrishagunadarpana Stotra is very interesting.
