śrī mahākālabhairava sahasranāma stotram

A thousand names of Mahākāla Bhairava, framed by an unusually crowded conversation in which the Goddess, Śiva and Durvāsā all speak. She begins by saying that what she wants is hidden across ten million books, hinted at and never set down; he answers that it was drawn from the essence of a thousand million names and that he holds it in his own mind and ought not to utter it. Durvāsā then reports that the god, pleased, meditated on himself and the hair stood up over his whole body before he consented. Its viniyoga names Brahmānanda Bhairava as seer and triṣṭubh as metre. What the frame is arguing for is stated plainly when the names begin: this list works without the placing of syllables and without formal worship, which is the concession that makes a secret text usable. The names open on Mahākāla and stay with the great — great body, great austerity, great yogin.