kumārīkavacaṃ (trailokyamaṅgala kumārī kavaca)

An armour of the Kumari, from the ninth chapter of the Rudrayamala's Uttara Tantra, in the section on the worship and placement of the Kumari — the young girl worshipped as the goddess herself. It names itself at the outset, the auspicious Kumari armour called the auspiciousness of the three worlds, destroyer of great sins, and then gives the roll of those who are said to have gained by it: by reading it and by carrying it, people became greatly accomplished and full of light — Indra the lord of the gods, and Brihaspati the teacher of the gods. Forty-five verses follow, setting her syllables over the body and closing the quarters, and the colophon places the whole within a chapter on the determination of the divine disposition.