Karpūrādi Stotra

कर्पूरादिस्तोत्रम्

Karpūrādi-stotra

Karpūrādi Stotra ("Hymn beginning with the syllable Karpūra") — a Śākta Tantric hymn to the Goddess Dakṣiṇa-Kālī, structured around her twenty-two-syllable mantra. Each verse describes the esoteric realisation of a single syllable, encoded in a deliberately obscure "twilight language" (sandhyā-bhāṣā). Famously translated and published by John Woodroffe (Arthur Avalon) in 1922 as "Hymn to Kali", which serves as our reference anchor (now public domain). Twenty-two verses plus a closing colophon attributing the hymn to Mahā-Kālī herself.