ଶ୍ରୀ କାଲିକା ସ୍ତୋତ୍ରମ୍

Nineteen verses from the Dakshinamurti Samhita of the Tripurasundari Tantra, where the Goddess asks and Dakshinamurti answers, and the instruction given with them matters as much as the verses do: worship Kali first in the proper manner, and only then recite this daily. The hymn itself is a chain of vocatives, each verse a handful of names closing on a salutation — of auspicious body, red of eye, having the very form of Mahadeva, and then, in the same breath, the one who has no lord above her, who is without support and without anything to lean upon. Hindi glosses stand appended inside the verses.