ଶ୍ରୀ ସୋମସୁନ୍ଦର ସ୍ତୋତ୍ରମ୍ (କୁଲଶେଖରପାଣ୍ଡ୍ଯ କୃତମ୍)

This is a hymn to Śiva, not to the moon, and the colophon says so outright — the Śiva praise made by Kulaśekhara Pāṇḍya in the Hālāsya Māhātmya, the temple chronicle of Madurai. Somasundara is the name under which Śiva is worshipped there, and every verse closes on the same line: I revere Mahādeva, the companion of her whose eyes are like the sweet fish — which is Mīnākṣī, the fish-eyed goddess of that shrine. The verses are built on massed compounds beginning with mahā and describe the great god in his fierce ornaments: clothed in the blood of the great elephant, the lion to the maddened elephant that was Andhaka, his body decked with the raised hoods of the lord of serpents, holding the great darkness at his throat for the breaking of all fear. The record had been filed under Chandra on the strength of soma in the name.