śrī bālā stavarājaḥ

The king of hymns to Bala, with its ritual apparatus intact. The viniyoga is distinctive: Mrityunjaya is named as its sage and kakubh as its metre, with Klim as seed, Sauh as power and Aim as pin, and the stated purpose is both enjoyment and release. The three seeds are then placed on the fingers and the six limbs in the fixed order before the hymn begins. The praise itself is in the grand manner the title claims, taking Bala through her names as the young form of the supreme goddess, and the text ends where such a recitation properly ends — not on a verse but on the utterance bhur bhuvah suvar om, which returns the reciter from the mantra to ordinary speech.