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A praise in sequence, and the sequence is the body: the text's own headings take it from the feet, to the greatness of the feet, to the navel, to the five elements, to the moon of her face, and only then to the form as a whole. Thirty-five verses carry it. One of the best of them leaves description for a run of paired opposites — I am not new nor are you new nor is the act new; you are the boon and you are the oblation; you are the river and you are the stream; you are the son and the daughter, and the father of householders — where nearly every pair changes gender across the break. The closing verse counts the recitation as thirty-three verses of praise together with the mantra.