ஶ்ரீ புவநேஶ்வரீ ஸ்தோத்ரம்

A Rudrayamala hymn that gives three different bodies to the same goddess in three consecutive verses, which is its most interesting feature. First she is held in the mind with heavy earrings and a slender waist, a rosary and a water-pot in her hands; then the yogins, having subdued the six enemies, see her with noose and goad and the gestures of boon and fearlessness; then she is Lakshmi herself, the colour of heated gold, bathed by four elephants pouring pots of nectar, a lotus in each hand. Before that comes a passage of yoga rather than of iconography: she enters the middle way, sleeps in the first lotus, splits five lotuses one after another and consumes them, and returns by the same road with the body drenched in the nectar that came out of it.