śrī lakṣmī kavacam

An armour of Lakshmi built on the simplest plan the form has: a name of hers to each direction and each part, with no seed syllables and no ritual placement to learn first. Let Lakshmi guard me in front, let Kamala guard me behind; Narayani at the head, and on every limb she whose form is Shri. Let Rama's wife guard each several limb, let Rameshvari always protect — the wide-eyed, the maya of yoga, Kaumari, and the bearer of the discus. Twenty verses cover the body and the quarters in that manner, and the closing one states the promise in the terms an armour uses: the primal power, ever Lakshmi, who shows favour to devotees, dwells unmoving and fixed in the one who carries this and in the one who recites it.