Homage to the Venerable Arya-Tara!

1. All gods and asuras pay homage at Your feet.. You look with compassion on beings in ill migrations. Tara, Who's left off all that is unfitting! I, Candragupta, shall write a praise to you.
2. Paws red with blood of elephants it's slain, the lion sees the traveler and advances. If on the way one thinks of you, it enters a forest extremely hard to cross.
3. Spurred by the noise of swarms of millions of bees circling his cheeks, which rut-fluid stains all over Not pausing a moment, on his way to kill- If one salutes You, Tara, he's subdued.
4. Kindled by fierce wind as of the Age of Destruction, fire is blazing up as vast as the sky; Should some citizen call upon Your name, Then immediately it is extinguished.
5. In a constricted, tortuous, cave-like valley, The mighty serpent spots the traveler and darts up the path; but to remember Tara Puts down its pride and turns it back again.
6. Robbers brandishing various sharp weapons See the traveler and advance upon her; But by the power of thinking of Venerable Tara, In no great time she safely reaches home.
7. A lord of the earth, who's skilled at making wishes daily fulfilled, has one bound in prison; But think of worshipful Tara, and in a moment the unbearable shackles will be in a hundred pieces.
8. One's ship is broken amidst an ocean whose commotion towers up high as the Brahma heavens, By fish and sea-monsters of terrifying forms; But thinking of Tara, one finds security.
9. Tawny - haired vetala demons, their bodies like kohl, Lean and hungry, held together by prominent sinews delighting in slaying human beings, Will be subdued if one remembers You.
10. Through the merit that I have gained here thinking of Her victorious over the Maras who in this way saves from the eight fears, May She be known to all the entire world!