Stotrams
(Dhumavati Dhyanam in Gujarati)
Also known as vivarna cancala rusta dirgha ca malinambara
The meditation verses on Dhumavati alone, without the armour or the names that usually surround them, and they are the plainest statement in the corpus of what this goddess is. She is colourless and unsteady and angry; tall, in soiled clothes, her hair discoloured and dry; a widow, and with gaps in her teeth. She rides a chariot whose banner is a crow. A winnowing basket is in her hand, her eyes are very dry, and the other hand is held out to give. Her nose is grown large, she is crooked and crooked-eyed, forever worn by hunger and thirst, a giver of fear, and fond of quarrel. Nothing is softened and nothing is explained; the tradition holds these to be her auspiciousness rather than the absence of it, and the verses simply set the figure down and stop.