ଶ୍ରୀତ୍ରିପୁରସୁନ୍ଦରୀପୁଷ୍ପାଞ୍ଜଲିସ୍ତଵଃ

One of six stavas in this corpus whose verses begin, in order, with the sixteen syllables of the Shodashi mantra — ka e i la hrim, ha sa ka ha la hrim, sa ka la hrim, shrim — so that the mantra is spelt down the left margin and nowhere stated. What this one does inside that frame is offer flowers, and its refrain closes every verse: this handful, Mother, is strewn at your feet. The register is that of a man with nothing else to bring. Many gods have been worshipped by dull minds, one verse says, and not one of them was ever seen; another admits to having sunk in the ocean of becoming many times over and never reached the shore; a third asks who, however learned and however attended, is able to worship her by the rule. Like the other five, it closes by naming Guha.