śrī ardhanārīśvarāṣṭottaraśatanāmāvalī

The hundred and eight names of Ardhanarishvara, the form that is half Shiva and half the goddess — and the litany is built to match, alternating a feminine name with a masculine one down the whole length of it, so that the pairing is in the grammar and not only in the image. To Chamundika the mother, to Shrikantha; to Parvati, to the supreme lord; to the great queen, to Mahadeva; to the ever-worshipped, to Sadashiva. It keeps that step for a hundred names — to Bhairavi and to Kalabhairava, to her rich in the form of the three powers and to him who has the three forms — and locates the pair at Kamakoti and at Kashi. The last pair closes it exactly as it began: to her whose form is all auspiciousness, to the giver of every welfare.