1008 names of Hindu God or Godess are collectively known as Sahasranamavali. 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 a deity wherein the deity is remembered by 1000 names, attributes or epithets. As stotras Sahasra-namas are songs of praise, a type of devotional literature. The word is a compound of sahasra "thousand" and nāman "name". A Sahasranāma often includes the names of other