ଶ୍ରୀ କେତୁ ସ୍ତୋତ୍ରମ୍

A dialogue between Bhairavi and Parameshvara, and it is the one Ketu hymn in this cluster that treats him as a form of Shiva rather than as a planet. After the opening image — smoke-coloured, two-armed, misshapen of face, seated on vultures — the salutations begin, and they are Shaiva salutations: to the terrible and the unterrible and the one whose nature is the greatly terrible, to Rudra, to the three-eyed, to the lord of the three cities, to Bhairava, to the one whose form is consciousness. Only intermittently does the planet resurface, in the epithets that call him the seizer of sun and moon, the son of fire, the tail, the sky-goer, and the ender of all the planets. The Goddess closes by thanking him for the telling, and Ishvara by forbidding the text to anyone not devoted.