ଶ୍ରୀଦୁର୍ଗାସ୍ତୋତ୍ରମ୍ (ପଞ୍ଚାଙ୍ଗ)

One limb of a five-part Durga text in the Rudrayamala, spoken by Bhairava to the Goddess, and less a praise than a key. Its viniyoga gives Maheshvara as seer and the eight-syllabled Durga as deity, with dum for the seed; the meditation that follows is green as durva grass, three-eyed, seated upon the buffalo, holding conch, lotus, sword, arrow, shield, trident and bow with the forefinger raised in warning. The nine verses after it each name a seed-syllable and the place in the mantra where it is to be set, and say what follows from it, the results being worldly ones — kingship, mastery, the favour of others — with one rite performed at evening on the cremation ground. Bhairava closes by forbidding the text to anyone not devoted, and the Goddess answers that she is pleased.