Sriman (Sanskrit: \u0936\u094d\u0930\u0940\u092e\u0928\u094d, romanized: \u015ar\u012bman, lit.\u2009’fortunate’) is an epithet of the Hindu deity Vishnu.[1] It refers to the deity being the possessor of Sri, both referring to his consort Lakshmi, the goddess of prosperity, as well as the material and non material aspects of fortune.<\/p>\n
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Sriman is a name of Vishnu, and appears as the 22nd,[2] 178th, and the 220th names in the Vishnu Sahasranama.<\/p>\n
According to Adi Shankara’s commentary on the Vishnu Sahasranama, Sriman means “One on whose chest Sri or Lakshmi, mother of the world, always dwells.”<\/p>\n
Shriman Narayana is often used to invoke Vishnu in the mantrams of Vedanta Desika.[3]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sriman (Sanskrit: \u0936\u094d\u0930\u0940\u092e\u0928\u094d, romanized: \u015ar\u012bman, lit.\u2009’fortunate’) is an epithet of the Hindu deity Vishnu.[1] It refers to the deity being the possessor of Sri, both referring to his consort Lakshmi, the goddess of prosperity, as well … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-area2","category-english"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 15:55:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}