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Sahasranāma is a
Sanskrit term
which means "a
thousand names". It is also a
genre of
stotra literature,
usually found as a
title of the text
named after...
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Vishnu Sahasranama (Sanskrit: विष्णुसहस्रनाम, romanized: viṣṇusahasranāma), is a
Sanskrit hymn
containing a list of the 1,000
names of Vishnu, one...
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Lalita Sahasranama (Sanskrit: ललितासहस्रनाम, romanized: lalitāsahasranāma) is a
Hindu religious text from the
Brahmanda Purana which lists the thousand...
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Shiva Sahasranama (Sanskrit: शिवसहस्रनाम, romanized: śivasahasranāma) is a
Sanskrit hymn that
contains a list of the 1,000
names of Shiva, one of...
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Ganesha Sahasranama (Sanskrit: गणेशसहस्रनाम, romanized: gaṇeśasahasranāma) is a list of the
names of
Hindu deity Ganesha (Gaṇeśa). A
sahasranama is a Hindu...
- Mahadevi.
Central to the
Shakta texts, she is
widely praised in the
Lalita Sahasranama and
Saundarya Lahari. In the
Lalitopakhyana of the
Brahmanda Purana,...
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Matulinga fruit, mace,
shield and a pānapātra (drinking bowl). In
Lakshmi Sahasranama of
Skanda Purana,
Goddess Lakshmi is
praised as "Om
Karaveera Nivasiniye...
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Krishna and is the 73rd name in the
Vishnu Sahasranama.
According to Adi Sankara's
commentary on the
Vishnu Sahasranama,
Madhusudana means the "destroyer of...
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names for a deity. The
Sahasranama, a type of nama-stotra, is a
litany of a
thousand names for a
particular deity.
Sahasranama means "1000 names"; Sahasra...
- tempest) or 'the most
frightening one'. This name
appears in the
Shiva Sahasranama, and R. K.
Sharma notes that it is used as a name of
Shiva often in later...
