śrī dakṣiṇāmūrti varṇamālā stotram

A garland of letters given by its colophon to Shankara: the verses take the syllables of Dakshinamurti's mantra in order and each opens on the syllable whose turn it has come to be, so that the poem spells the mantra as it is recited. It begins on Om — the name the wise have taken for him, by whose shining the whole of space and all that follows shines, at whose command Brahma and the rest stand each in his own place — and turns on the second syllable to those of bowed body and full devotion, to whom he gives the ends of life and quickly destroys every misfortune, the forgetfulness under his lotus feet. Each verse closes on the same line: I contemplate that inward-facing one, the south-faced.