Dāmodarāṣṭakam
दामोदराष्टकम्
Eight verses on the child Kṛṣṇa, who ran from Yaśodā, was caught and bound at the waist with a rope, and cried; with such play he drowned all Gokula in a pool of joy.
Why this one
Hāsya is laughter, and Bharata gives it to the Pramathas, the playful hosts of Śiva. Here it is the play of God as a child: caught, bound, crying, and the whole village drowned in joy by it (verse 3).
These are the eight verses sung in Kārttika, told in the Padma Purāṇa as Satyavrata's hymn. The text was read in two printings, sanskritdocuments.org and BhaktiBharat, and each reading is taken where they agree; verse 3 is in the second only. The sense given here is ours.
वाचिक: Said out loud, a line to a breath. The syllables light as you say them. उपांशु: The lips move and nobody across the room hears it. The text stays on the screen and stops moving. मानस: Nothing said, nothing shown. The breath and the place. अन्तर्यात्रा: The first third aloud, the second whispered, the last in the mind. Over a stotra this long the voice goes inward by itself; this simply agrees with it.
How to say it
The traditional three, and the order is a withdrawal inwards rather than a ladder. Nothing is locked.
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The whole text
नमामीश्वरं सच्चिदानन्दरूपं लसत्कुण्डलं गोकुले भ्राजमानम् ।
यशोदाभियोलूखलाद्धावमानं परामृष्टमत्यन्ततो द्रुत्य गोप्या ॥
रुदन्तं मुहुर्नेत्रयुग्मं मृजन्तं कराम्भोजयुग्मेन सातङ्कनेत्रम् ।
मुहुःश्वासकम्पत्रिरेखाङ्ककण्ठस्थितग्रैवं दामोदरं भक्तिबद्धम् ॥
इतीदृक्स्वलीलाभिरानन्दकुण्डे स्वघोषं निमज्जन्तमाख्यापयन्तम् ।
तदीयेशितज्ञेषु भक्तैर्जितत्वं पुनः प्रेमतस्तं शतावृत्ति वन्दे ॥
वरं देव मोक्षं न मोक्षावधिं वा न चान्यं वृणेऽहं वरेशादपीह ।
इदं ते वपुर्नाथ गोपालबालं सदा मे मनस्याविरास्तां किमन्यैः ॥
इदं ते मुखाम्भोजमत्यन्तनीलैर्वृतं कुन्तलैः स्निग्धरक्तैश्च गोप्या ।
मुहुश्चुम्बितं बिम्बरक्ताधरं मे मनस्याविरास्तामलं लक्षलाभैः ॥
नमो देव दामोदरानन्त विष्णो प्रसीद प्रभो दुःखजालाब्धिमग्नम् ।
कृपादृष्टिवृष्ट्यातिदीनं बतानुगृहाणेश मामज्ञमेध्यक्षिदृश्यः ॥
कुवेरात्मजौ बद्धमूर्त्यैव यद्वत् त्वया मोचितौ भक्तिभाजौ कृतौ च ।
तथा प्रेमभक्तिं स्वकां मे प्रयच्छ न मोक्षे ग्रहो मेऽस्ति दामोदरेह ॥
नमस्तेऽस्तु दाम्ने स्फुरद्दीप्तिधाम्ने त्वदीयोदरायाथ विश्वस्य धाम्ने ।
नमो राधिकायै त्वदीयप्रियायै नमोऽनन्तलीलाय देवाय तुभ्यम् ॥
The Sanskrit is older than any copyright and is set down as it is chanted, checked verse by verse against the count this stotra is known by. Everything said about it here was written for this page.