You may know that the three most common lists of religious hindu names
are
1) The Vishnu Sahasranamam
2) The Lalitha Sahasranamam
and
3) the less well know Shiva Sahasranamam.
Each has 1008 names of the particular deity, of which many are names
commonly given, especially within the Brahmin community, who memorized these
ancient hymns.
Less well known is the fact that each of these long hymns is itself merely
one of several hymns with names. For instance the Lalitha Sahasranamam is
merely one of 10 lists of Goddess names !
