শ্ৰীত্ৰিপুৰসুন্দৰীৱেদসাৰস্তৱঃ

Seventeen verses, sixteen of them opening on the sixteen syllables of the Shodashi mantra in order and a short one added at the close. What sets it apart from the other five stavas built the same way is that each verse ends in a boon of its own rather than in a shared refrain. The first, on Brahma's consort playing her lute, asks for eloquence of the sattvic kind; the second, on the swan-formed goddess seen by yogins in the middle of the mind, asks for lasting gladness; the eighth, which tells how she revived Kamadeva by a glance when his wife begged for him in tears, asks for the quieting of disease. The Veda in the title is earned by the second verse, which calls her the form of nada, of sound itself.