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A nyasa rather than a hymn: the placement of mantras on the body that precedes Varahi's japa or the reading of her stotras in the Srividya tradition. It seats Bhairava as the sage on the head, the anushtubh metre on the mouth and the goddess on the heart, carries Aim, Hrim, Shrim and her own bija through the fingers and the six limbs, then sets sixteen of her names from crown to feet in order — Rajni, Damshtra, Dandini, Yajnavarahi, Nilambara, Mahavarahi, Ghurghura, Samharini, Patalavasini, Dandanatha, Jagadamba — and binds the six directions. Two dhyana verses close it, showing her dark as the petal of a blue lotus, with the face of a boar, holding mace and pestle, noose and goad. The text calls her Mantrini; the names it places are Varahi's.