ଶ୍ରୀ ମାତଙ୍ଗୀ ହୃଦଯମ୍

A heart-hymn of Matangi from the Dakshinamurti Samhita, and the frame is unusually light for a tantric text: once, seized by curiosity, Bhairavi asked Bhairava, who is served by spirits and intent on the good of every creature. The apparatus follows — viniyoga, the placing of seer and metre, the hand-placing, the limb-placing, a meditation — and then the hymn. Its verses are long and gentle: salutation to Matangi of the soft and gladdened body, giver of the highest good to those whose minds meditate on her lotus feet, ever served in the assembly by the gods of divine understanding, wet with pity, whose mind is raised like a staff against wrongdoing.