ଶ୍ରୀ ବଗଲାମୁଖୀ ହୃଦଯମ୍

A heart-hymn from the northern section of the Siddheshvara Tantra, in the chapter given to Bagala, with a viniyoga naming Narada as its seer and hlim, klim and aim for seed, power and pin. What the hymn asks for is chiefly one thing, and it is the thing this goddess is invoked for: the stopping of an opponent's speech. Those who recite her fierce seed daily, one verse says, remembering her own form, find that the mouths of disputants are stopped in the assembly, and victory comes at once to those who speak against them. Thirty-six units carry the placing, the meditation and the hymn, and the whole is set in the language of a court or a debating hall rather than a battlefield.