Goddess Devi

trailokyavijaya śrī pratyaṅgirā kavacam

(Trailokya Vijaya Sri Pratyangira Kavacham in English (IAST))

Also known as pratyangira kavacham · pratyangira devi kavach · jaya dhumrabhimakara sahasravadanasrita

An armour whose whole substance is a single sustained image, and the most visually precise text in this cluster. The goddess is smoke-coloured and terrible in form, attended by a thousand faces, her rolling eyes tawny as water and her tongue a flame; she binds the hard-hearted that same instant with serpent nooses, and with the terror of her knotted brows and the striking of her foot. In her left hand is the rod that crushes enemies and in her right the terrible thunderbolt. Then the ornaments, which are all snakes and are each named: Ananta and Takṣaka shining as her bracelets, Vāsuki the necklace at her throat, Karkoṭī the girdle at her waist, Padma and Mahāpadma made into anklets at her feet, and Gonasa in the circle of her ear. Its closing verse lists what cannot touch one who wears it, ending at hostile mantras and diagrams.

|| trailokyavijaya śrī pratyaṅgirā kavacam ||
jaya dhūmrabhīmākārā sahasravadanāśritā |
jalapiṅgalalolākṣī jvālājihvā ca nityaśaḥ || 1 ||
niṣṭhurān bandhayeddevī tatkṣaṇaṃ nāgapāśakaiḥ |
bhṛkuṭī bhīṣaṇān vatsyāt dhatte pādaprahārataḥ || 2 ||
vāme'rimardano daṇḍo dakṣiṇo vajrabhīṣaṇo |
pretaśirakaro rudradhyānoddāmaramārakam || 3 ||
ananta takṣakau devyā kaṅkaṇaṃ ca virājite |
vāsukī kaṇṭhahāraśca karkaṭī kaṭimekhalā || 4 ||
śliṣṭo padma mahāpadmau pādyo kṛta nūpurau |
ruṇḍamāla kare bhūṣā gonasaḥ karṇamaṇḍale || 5 ||
gṛhābhetṛpaṭedhṛtvā jātā dānavaghātinī |
svayaṃ sainyā'bhayadā devī parasainya bhayaṅkarī || 6 ||
no yakṣairakhilairna rākṣasagaṇairno śākinī śaktaye [śatai]
no vā ceṭakakheṭakairnavamahābhūtaiḥ prabhūtairapi |
nāpi vyantara mudgare phalagaṇairno mantrayantraiḥ parai
devī tvaccaraṇārcatāṃ paribhavaḥ pratyaṅgire śakyate || 7 ||
|| iti trailokyavijaya śrī pratyaṅgirā kavacam sampūrṇam ||

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