ଶ୍ରୀ ଦକ୍ଷିଣକାଲିକା ହୃଦଯ ସ୍ତୋତ୍ରମ୍

A heart-hymn of Dakshina Kalika from the Deviyamala Tantra, prefaced by an unusually specific viniyoga — Mahakalabhairava the seer, ushnik the metre, hrim the seed, hum the power, krim the pin, and the deity named as the great sixfold form and the queen of Mahakala. The hand-placing and the heart-placing follow, then a meditation, and only then the hymn. Its middle verses give times and conditions for the recitation, and some of these belong to the left-hand rite, which the text neither hides nor dwells upon. It closes as Sadashiva's own teaching, with the injunction that it is not to be given to anybody at all. A second and longer heart-hymn of the same goddess stands in this corpus.