śrī bālāṣṭottaraśatanāma stotram

A second version of Bala's hundred and eight names, given straight as verse with no ritual apparatus before it. It opens on the names that place her — Bala, the great goddess, mistress of the five-fold seat, born of the left side of Shiva, the swan on the lake of Shiva's mind — and then runs a long sequence on the number three: standing in three places, three-eyed, made of the three strands, holding the three forms under her sway, destroyer of the sins of three births, householder with the three-eyed one. The middle turns to her appearance, bright as a crore of young suns, dark hair loose at the brow, a gold mark on the forehead, a restless pearl at the nose. The last verse says that reading, remembering and meditating alike bring about every auspicious thing.