ଶ୍ରୀ ପ୍ରତ୍ଯଙ୍ଗିରା କଵଚମ୍ (ସର୍ଵାର୍ଥସାଧନମ୍)

The shorter Pratyaṅgirā armour, called Sarvārthasādhana, from the Pañcāṅga Khaṇḍa of the Rudrayāmala, and spoken here by Bhairava rather than by Śiva. The Goddess asks for it by name — you who know every duty and have crossed to the far shore of the meaning of all the scriptures, tell me the armour of the goddess Pratyaṅgirā that has been revealed. What distinguishes it from the Jaganmaṅgalaka is its closing warning, which is unusually severe and is directed at the practitioner rather than at any enemy: weapons beginning with the brahmāstra do not cut the body of one who wears it, but whoever recites the mantra of the supreme goddess without knowing this armour comes to extreme poverty and before long to death. The armour is presented as the precondition of the practice, not an optional addition to it.