sādhanā graṃtha

Sixteen verses in a long metre, each of which pairs a picture of the goddess with an instruction about her mantra — this is a sadhana text as much as a hymn, and the two are not separable in it. The first sets her white as camphor and the moon, wearing a sliver of moon, seated on a red lotus, the lotus hands holding the book, the rosary and the gesture, and then tells the reciter what comes of repeating the first seed three hundred thousand times while holding that image. The second has her red, the lotus hands carrying the vessel, the noose, the goad, the flower bow and the citron. The last returns to the plainest form of her: Bala with the light of the young sun, seated on a lotus, on a lotus seat made of five corpses, in the shape of Vagvadini.