śrī kāmakalākālī bhujaṅga prayāta stotram

A hymn in the serpent-glide metre from the tenth chapter of the Mahakala Samhita, and its frame gives it to Ravana: when he set out to conquer the Kalaka demons and Munjamali and their chiefs, meaning to beat them all in battle by the strength of his own arms, he praised Kamakala Kali in words. What follows is largely an inventory of what she carries, and the list is long and strange — spear, skull-staff, severed head, a bhushundi, bow, discus, bell, a child, a ghost, a mountain, then a human skeleton, a mongoose, a serpent, the flute of madness, a mallet and a fire-pit. Mahakala is the one reciting it all, and the opening verse says that the mere remembrance of it turns obstacles away. Hindi glosses stand appended inside the verses.