śrī tārā kavacam

An armour of Ugratara from the Rudrayamala, fifty-nine verses long, opening with the claim that it is kept hidden in crores of tantras and that the knowledge it carries releases from the greatest fear. The armour proper works through her three names, so that a different one guards a different part — Nilasarasvati, the goddess intent on the giving of learning, is set at the mouth, which is where a goddess of speech belongs. What follows the body is a list of circumstances rather than of limbs: in scripture, in debate, in battle, in water, on a difficult mountain. The last verses give the manner of making it into an object, written on birch bark by the teacher and worn.