śrī śanaiścara sahasranāmāvalī

The thousand names of Śanaiścara set out as a litany, each in the dative between Oṁ and namaḥ, and arranged alphabetically by their opening sound rather than by sense — all the names beginning with a first, then those in ā, and so on through the vowels. Read in that order the character of the god emerges by accident rather than by design, and it is double throughout. On one side the hard names: of terrible form, of very long body, dreadful beyond measure, unshakeable, at whose mere glance everything is destroyed. On the other, and in the same alphabetical run: speaker of measureless words, remover of sin, taker-away of endless calamity, giver of the wished-for fruit, destroyer of misfortune, an undiminishing treasury of compassion, and destroyer of the root of ignorance. The verse form of the same thousand is kept as a separate record.