śrī rājarājeśvarī ṣoḍaśī

Sixteen verses by Sacchidananda Shivabhinava Nrisimha Bharati, Jagadguru of Sringeri, every one of them opening on the same word: naumi, I praise. What is praised first is the smallest possible offering — a heart contented by the mere recitation of hrim — and the verse goes on to say that even the bowing and the praising of her lotus feet depend on one's own good fortune. She is set in the Chakraraja with Skanda and the elephant-faced one shining at either side of her, an ocean of loveliness, wholly given over to the protecting of those who come to her. The anaphora carries the whole: sixteen verses, and each begins by saying that the praising is itself the act.