śrī kālabhairava kakāra aṣṭottaraśatanāma stotram

The kakārādi hundred and eight of Kālabhairava in verse, bound by the rule that every name begin with the letter ka, and carrying the fullest ritual apparatus of anything in this cluster. Before a single name is spoken the record gives the viniyoga, naming the text the nectar of Śākta bliss and Ānanda Bhairava as its seer, with hrīṁ for the seed and hsauḥ for the power; then the placing of seer and metre and deity on head, mouth and heart; then the hand-placing, in which the syllables kṣphrāṁ, kṣphrīṁ, kṣphrūṁ, kṣphraiṁ and kṣphrauṁ are set on the thumbs and the four fingers in turn. Its closing verses call the text a rare and secret medicine that brings quiet, describe it as the swelling of the ka-syllable mother-sound, and make the whole conditional on one thing — that what is obtained is obtained by the guru's favour.