ଶ୍ରୀ କାମକଲାକାଲୀ ସହସ୍ରନାମ ସ୍ତୋତ୍ରମ୍

A thousand names of Kamakala Kali from the twelfth chapter of the Kamakala section of the Mahakala Samhita, given when the Goddess tells Mahakala that, having now heard the rite and the meditation, she wants to hear the names. It is one half of a pair, and the half that cannot stand by itself: the Sanjivana Gadya beside it is prescribed to be recited immediately before and immediately after this list, and that text says outright that without it the thousand names bear no fruit at all. It runs to some hundred and fifty-seven verses and closes on the claim that the goddess abides within the hymn as though bound into it, so that the recitation is not a description of her but a place where she is. It belongs to the Mahakala Samhita material already held for a ruling.