ശ്രീ കാലികാ അര്ഗല സ്തോത്രം

A bolt-hymn for Kali, made on the pattern of the one that accompanies the Durga Saptashati and serving the same purpose: it is one of three pieces meant to be recited together, with the pin-hymn and the armour, and the pin-hymn in this corpus says outright that a Kali armour read without these two leaves every mantra fruitless. Bhairava is named as its seer. The requests in it are direct and worldly — bring all living beings under my control, always — and several verses place the goddess within the reciter's own body in the manner of the kula rite, which the text states without circumlocution. Thirty-one units, closing on the promise that the reciter becomes a goer in the sky.