Sadhanamala

She is the quintessence of sweet eros,

Glorious with the beauty of infinite fiery brilliance, . 

With full breasts and buttocks,

Terrible with fangs flashing in the light

Shooting from her three, leftward-rolling red eyes. 

In her boundlessly brilliant gaping mouth,

Her broad tongue lashes its curling tip.

She is as bright as all fires. . . .

Her body is heavy with the weight of her full buttocks, 

Draped with a capacious tiger hide,

With a garland of human heads dripping blood across her chest. 

Her swaying bow and arrow, adorned by two large red lotuses,

Are never at rest.

She nurtures the three realms

By dragging them with her terrible goad;

The red lotus in her left hand, graceful and peerless,

Is the very seat of passion.

The skulls atop her fivefold crown

Mock the splendor of the radiance of the brilliant moon. 

Her limbs are graced with five bone ornaments,

Holding the essence of the five victorious wisdoms.

~Sadhanamala