ஶ்ரீ நாராயண நாமாவலி ஸ்தோத்ரம் (மஹாபாரதே)

A litany of the names of Narayana from the Anushasana Parvan of the Mahabharata, and its opening verses do something the later Vaishnava lists do not: they give him Shiva's names outright. He is saluted as Shiva and as one whose very image is Shiva, as sprung from Shiva's source, as Shiva's first, as the most worthy of Shiva's worship — and then, in the same breath, as the one of terrible form who brings the ages to their end. The names that follow keep an older sound than the familiar stock: the crowned one, the fair-haired, the strong, Brihaduktha, Sushena, the twin, the drum. The list reads less like an epithet-collection assembled from the Puranas than like something inherited from the hymns.