Kanakadhara Stotram | Veena Recital | S Lalitha Devi |

Kanakadhara Stotram
Composed by Sri Shankaracharya
Sung by Bombay Sisters

Adi Sankara was possibly one of the great saints of his time. He was born in a poor Brahmin family in Kerala. After brahmopadesa, as is usual during those times, he was asked to beg almsy for his lunch. One day when he went to a Brahmin house, the lady of the house was so poor that she did not have anything to give him. She searched hard and found one small fruit of gooseberry ( amla ), which she gave to Sankara the boy.
He was so touched by her gesture that he sang these 21 mellifluous hymns on Goddess Lakshmi, who poured golden goose berries as rain to the poor woman’s house. Even today it is believed that poverty would be banished by singing this hymn. The house that happened still exists in Kaladi. These 21 stanzas became sacred and popular as Kanakadhara Stotram sung for the welfare of anybody suffering because of the past karma and suffering from poverty.
On this auspicious day of Akshay Tritiya, let's listen and recite Kanakadhara Stotram, an immortal ode to Goddess Lakshmi, to continue a prosperous life.

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My utmost gratitude to my beloved parents and gurus Mrs.Anandhi Poornachandran and Dr.S.Mallika.

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