ஶ்ரீராஜராஜேஶ்வர்யாஃ ஸ்துதிஃ

Eight verses by Rajanaka Vidyadhara, and the goddess they praise is language itself. The first sets out the claim: her wealth is all the letters from a to ksha, her form is the matrika, she is the potency of mantra and the nectar-essence whose tasting gives joy, the wave in the ocean-womb of all feeling, pervading the truth of word and of meaning — may that Sarasvati, that Bhagavati, that Rajarajeshvari protect me. Each verse after it closes the same way, on the triple naming, so that Sarasvati and Rajarajeshvari are held together as one throughout. Rajanaka in the colophon is a Kashmirian title, and the hymn's interest in word, meaning and the letters is of a piece with it.