કામાખ્યા ચાલીસા

Forty verses in Hindi to Kamakhya, whose shrine on the Nilachala hill above the Brahmaputra is the most important of the seats of the Goddess in the east, and where what is worshipped is a cleft in the rock rather than an image. The opening doha calls her the mine of every accomplishment and asks her to be pleased and to make true what the poet is about to describe. The verses keep to her power and to the pilgrimage rather than to any story of hers. The closing doha gives the poet's name as Gopal and states the claim the shrine makes for itself: she became manifest for the good of the world, and no one can fathom her.