
ಶ್ರೀ ಶ್ಯಾಮಲಾ ಸಹಸ್ರನಾಮಾವಲೀ
(Sri Shyamala Sahasranamavali in Kannada)
Also known as shri shyamala sahasranamavali · shree shyamala sahasranamavali · shyamala sahasranamavali
A thousand names of Shyamala in salutation form, with the text's own marker at the five hundredth so that the halfway point can be found. The opening run gives her as fortune and beauty before anything else — the Lakshmi of good fortune, a treasury of loveliness, lover of equal feeling, the dwelling of all welfare, mistress of all, all-auspicious, the subduer of everything. The closing run is domestic and precise in a way the opening is not: full-bellied, the giver of the oblation, worshipped by the hosts, mistress of the hosts, a singer, free of pride, her face bright with beads of sweat, high-breasted, beyond weighing, a girl.