śrīvajrapañjarakākhyaṃ śrīkālikākavacam

An armour called the diamond cage, given by Ishvara at the Goddess's asking, and the promise made for it in the second verse is an unusual one: the man for whom this is done becomes a son of Kali. Its meditation verse is among the fuller ones in this cluster — dark as a raincloud, the teeth very fierce, the tongue lolling, the hair matted, a severed head in the left hand and the moon-bright sword in the right, the corners of the mouth set against a face like a nectar-lipped lotus, a girdle, the eyes heavy, and her feet upon a corpse. The armour itself is made of seed-syllables placed on the body, and the closing verse says where it is meant to be used: among spirits and serpents and the armies of enemies, in the forest, among hyenas, and in every other fear.