śrī bālātripurasundarī sahasranāmāvalī

A second thousand-name litany of Bala Tripurasundari for offering, again headed by the seeds Aim Hrim Shrim, and arranged like the first in alphabetical runs so that the reciter can keep the place through a long worship. This one opens on the letter ka and stays there for a long stretch — the auspicious one, the lotus, Kali, the terrible one, whose form is desire, Kamakshi, giver of desire, desirable, the object of desire — which shows how such a litany is actually built: sound first, and sense following the sound. The two namavalis in this collection are not the same list, and a reciter who uses both will find names in each that the other does not carry.