śrī pratyaṅgirā kavacam (jaganmaṅgalakam)

The longer of two Pratyaṅgirā armours here, seventy-one verses, drawn from the Śrī Mahālakṣmī Tantra and framed as a conversation between Umā and Maheśvara with Śaṅkara named as its composer. The Goddess asks for it by its title — the armour called Jaganmaṅgalaka, famous in the three worlds, which makes every protection for people — and asks that the secret be told as well as the text. Its closing verse restricts transmission to a disciple possessed of devotion and no one else, and then makes the reference that places the whole tradition: this is what Indrajit performed at Nikumbhilā for the destruction of his enemies. Pratyaṅgirā is the goddess of the counter-rite, invoked to turn back what has been directed at the worshipper, and the Rāmāyaṇa episode is the standing example of that practice.