ஶ்ரீதுர்காஸப்தஶதீஸஹஸ்ரநாமஸ்தோத்ரம்

A thousand names of the Goddess gathered, as the colophon says, out of the Durga Saptashati, and running to a hundred and seventy-seven verses. They are arranged by the alphabet rather than by theme: the opening verses pair a name in a with a name in ka — Amba with Katyayani, Atula with Kalika — and the runs go on letter by letter through pa, sa and ha to end at ksha, the last of the series. In the closing hundred the name Durga itself returns again and again as a refrain, so that the litany narrows back to the one name it began by expanding. The section heads are the Saptashati's own, namas tasyai namo namah, and the last verse asks that this thousand be held as fit in the world as the seven hundred already are.