Hymn to Siva - Verse 2-3

A thousand cycles of these four yugas constitute a day of god Brahma. The seven Ganas (groups of gods) like Yama and others and the fourteen Romavat groups in their 1, It is since the Rudradhyaya in TS. IV. 5 that we find the list of epithets used as a hymn of prayer. The list of epithets went on increasing and was lastly recorded as Sahasra-nama. Here we have a list of Siva’s epithets as prayer in 164.