śrī kālī kavacam (trailokyavijayam)

The armour called the conquest of the three worlds, from the seventh chapter of the Mahanirvana Tantra — the same chapter that holds the hundred ka-names of Adya Kalika in this corpus. Sadashiva speaks it. Its viniyoga is compact and worth reading for what it chooses: Shiva as the seer, anushtubh as the metre, Adya Kali as the deity, the maya-seed for the seed, Rama for the power and krim for the pin, and the purpose stated as the accomplishment of what is desired. The armour itself takes only ten verses and closes by handing the whole body over at once — may the eternal Adya Kali always guard all of it. A method of preliminary practice follows the hymn.