ଶ୍ରୀ କମଲା ସ୍ତୋତ୍ରମ୍ (ଵର୍ଣ-ଗ୍ରଥିତ ସ୍ତଵରାଜଃ)

A king of hymns from the Rudrayamala, set as a conversation between Shiva and Gauri, and built as an alphabet: its verses run from the letter a to the letter ksha, each taking up the syllable whose turn it is, which is what the title means by strung on the letters. Now I shall tell the unsurpassed hymn of Lakshmi, says the first verse, by the reading and the hearing of which a person obtains release; more secret than the secret, meritorious, saluted by all the gods, made of all mantras — listen, daughter of the mountain. At seventy-two verses it is the longest of the several Kamala stotras collected here, and the acrostic means it cannot be shortened without breaking the alphabet it is built on.