śrī lalitā stotram (brahmādi kṛtam)

Twenty-one verses spoken by Brahma and the gods with him, every one of them a chain of salutations. The first sets the frame the rest keep: salutation, sole lord of the world; salutation, you who are named Tripura; salutation, slayer of the great demon Bhanda; salutation, Kameshvari. That killing is what the hymn keeps returning to, and it belongs to the Lalita story rather than to the general praise of the Goddess. Around it stand the particulars of her court — the eight powers beginning with animan waiting on her, the bright couch that is Sadashiva's own body, and, in the last verse, Vashini and the goddesses of speech with her, before it ends by asking her to protect the universe.