śrī dattātreya sahasranāmāvalī

The thousand names of Dattātreya in the recension narrated by Sūta, who is asked by the sages at the outset for a means of release that will serve everybody, and answers that Datta alone is that — knower of the truth of Veda and Āgama, the naked one, sky-clad in consciousness, inclined to affection for those who trust him. The litany that follows is preceded by its ritual frame, which names the Avadhūta as the seer of the mantra, anuṣṭubh as its metre and Digambara as its deity, with oṁ for the seed, hrīṃ for the power and krauṃ for the pin. Each name is then given singly, in the dative between Oṁ and namaḥ, for telling on a rosary or for use with flowers. This is a different work from the Dakārādi thousand, which was composed later under the rule that every name must begin with the letter da.