ଶ୍ରୀ ଦକ୍ଷିଣାମୂର୍ତି ସହସ୍ରନାମ ସ୍ତୋତ୍ରମ୍

A thousand names of Dakshinamurti from the Chidambara Nata Tantra, spoken by Maheshvara to Uma, who opens by asking to hear the secret of secrets. His answer sets the tone of the whole text before a single name is given: this is the hidden thing among hidden things, greater than the greatest, and he says he has never spoken it anywhere, not even the whole of it, to her. The names that follow keep to the two registers this figure holds together — the ascetic under the banyan with ash and moon and serpent and hide, and the teacher whose four hands carry the rosary, the vina, the book and the gesture that answers every question by making none. It is by some distance the longest Dakshinamurti text in this collection.