hanumat kavaca stotra yantra mahimā (parāśara saṃhitā)

The seventy-eighth chapter of the Parashara Samhita, and it is not itself an armour but an account of what an armour and its diagram can do. Parashara reports a conversation older than his own: Parvati asks Shiva by what protection comes to people frightened by every kind of calamity, and asks to be told the thing that is auspicious and greatly meritorious and destroys sin. Shiva answers, and what he gives her is the standing of the kavacha and of the yantra that belongs with it. The chapter is therefore about use rather than about words. It closes in plain procedure — how the preparatory discipline is completed, and that whoever completes it becomes the equal of Kubera; how the water-offering is made, with the word ending in svaha; and what is to be pronounced at the close of the fire offering.