śrī pratyaṅgirā stotram (siddhilakṣmī mahāvidyā)

The second Pratyaṅgirā hymn, from the Tridaśa Ḍāmara Tantra, where it is titled the praise of Siddhilakṣmī Mahāmāyā — so the goddess is approached here through her identification with Lakṣmī rather than through her fierce aspect. It opens on the formless: salutation to you, great illusion, beyond the body, without stain, Pratyaṅgirā, sustainer of the world, royal Lakṣmī. What follows is unusual for a stotra in being almost entirely yogic anatomy, and it gives her three bodies in succession — a body of letters, a body of words, a body of principles — before describing her as the great coiled power that splits the thousand-petalled lotus, moving between iḍā and piṅgalā in the form of a lotus-fibre through the central channel. Its closing verse restricts it to one devoted and initiated in the lineage.