ஶ்ரீராஜராஜேஶ்வரீ சூர்ணிகா

A churnika — rhythmic Sanskrit prose rather than verse, built of long compounds that run on for lines together before the sentence closes. It is addressed to Kamalambika at Kamalapura, and the opening passage does what the form exists for: a golden mountain, a region incomparable and purifying and lovely, and the place filled without interruption by the clear sound of all the Vedas, Agamas, Shastras, Puranas and histories being recited aloud. The colophon names Vidyadhisha as its author. At the end it leaves prose for a single verse, to Hemambika seated on her lion, pearl and coral and gold at her ears, her face the colour of a red lotus, skilled at giving those who come to her what they ask.