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and so forth, with the drop (sabindukā), fifty; "hrīṃ aḥ kālī sauḥ" and so forth, with the visarga (savisargā), fifty; "hrīṃ aḥ kālī sauḥ" and so forth, containing the drop inside, fifty; "hrīṃ aḥ kālī sauḥ" and so forth, endowed with drop and visarga, fifty. Thus there are two hundred mantras. Substituting the vāgbhava seed syllable in place of the māyā seed syllable and doing everything else as before, there are two hundred [more]. Then placing the third, the kāmabīja, at the beginning and doing everything else as before, there are two hundred [more]—thus making six hundred mantras. Then putting the name Kalā in place of the name Kālī and doing everything else as before, there are [another] six hundred. Thus, for each name, there are six thousand variations. Then, in place of the first mantra named Śakti,