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Sahasranama is aSanskritterm which means "a thousand names".It is also a genre ofstotraliterature,usually found as a title of the text named after a deity, such as Sahasranma, wherein the deity is remembered by 1,000 names, attributes or epithets.\t

As stotras, Sahasra-namas are songs of praise, a type of devotional literature.The word is a compound ofsahasra"thousand" andnaman"name". A Sahasranama often includes the names of other deities, suggesting henotheistic equivalence.]It also includes epithets such as Jiva (life force), Satya (truth), Param (highest), Jnana (knowledge) and others.includes the energies of a goddess that manifest in an individual as desire, wisdom and action.\t

A sahasranama provides a terse list of attributes, virtues and legends symbolized by a deity. There are also many shorter stotras, calledashtottara-shata-nma, which have only 108 names.