ଶ୍ରୀ ଶିଵକର୍ପୂରସ୍ତୋତ୍ରମ୍

A hymn built around the six-syllabled mantra, and it says so at the outset rather than concealing it: the mantra is directly the one of six syllables, a maker of good and a destroyer of enemies; whoever repeats this mantra always, remembering his own teacher's lotus feet. That opening tells you what kind of text it is — a sadhana instruction wearing the shape of a stotra, in the same family as the Karpuradi Stotra of Kali from which it takes its name and much of its manner. The forty-four verses that follow alternate between describing Shiva and telling the reciter what to do with the syllables, and the two cannot be separated: the description is the meditation the repetition requires.