Todalatantra 1: Toḍalatantra, Prathamaḥ paṭalaḥ

The noble Goddess said:
Tell me, Lord of the worlds, O Lord who consists of all vidyās,
concerning all the Mahāvidyās who are worshipped throughout the three worlds.

On their right side, O Pināka-bearer who assumes diverse forms,
state [the consort] of each one separately unto me, O Lord, O Great God.

The noble Śiva said:
Listen, O lovely-limbed, fortunate one, to the Bhairava of Kālikā:
one should worship Mahākāla on the right side of Dakṣiṇā.

Dakṣiṇā ever takes delight together with Mahākāla.
On the right side of Tārā, one should worship Akṣobhya.

At the churning of the ocean, O Goddess, when the kālakūṭa poison arose,
all the gods, together with their wives, fell into great agitation.

Because he drank the hālāhala poison free from agitation and the like,
for this very reason, O Great Ruler, he is renowned as Akṣobhya.

Together with him, Mahāmāyā Tāriṇī ever takes delight.
On the right of Mahātripurasundarī, one should worship Śiva,

who has five faces and three eyes on each face, O Ruler of the gods.
Together with him, the Great Goddess is ever eager with desire.

For this very reason, O Great Ruler, she is celebrated as Pañcamī.
On the right of glorious Bhuvanasundarī, one should worship Tryambaka.

She who is primordial Bhuvaneśvarī in heaven, on earth, and in the underworld—
because he delights in these [three], he is called Tryambaka.

He is declared to be possessed of Śakti, worshipped in all the Tantras.
On the right side of Bhairavī, one should worship him who is named Dakṣiṇāmūrti,

five-faced indeed, with great effort.
On the right side of Chinnamastā, one should worship Śiva as Kabandha.

From worshipping Kabandha, O Goddess, one becomes the master of all siddhis.
The Mahāvidyā Dhūmāvatī bears the form of a widow.

On the right side of Vagalā, one should worship the one-faced one,
renowned as Mahārudra, the cause of the destruction of the universe.

And on the right side of Mātaṅgī, one should worship Śiva as Mataṅga;
he is Dakṣiṇāmūrti himself, the embodiment of cosmic bliss.

On the right side of Kamalā, one should worship Sadāśiva in the form of Viṣṇu,
O Supreme Ruler; he attains perfection, of this there is no doubt.

One should worship on the right of Annapūrṇā the great Lord Maheśvara,
having ten faces, granting supreme liberation, possessing the form of Brahmā.

In the region to the right of Durgā, one should worship Nārada.
The syllable na is the creator, and the syllable da is ever the protector;

because the letter r possesses the nature of destruction, he is celebrated as Nārada.
Among all other vidyās, whichever seer is proclaimed,

he alone is her husband, and one should worship him on her right side.
She who is the primordial, supreme vidyā, and the second, supreme Bhairavī,
the eternal mother of the three worlds—how is she mounted upon a corpse?

The noble Śiva said:
She who is primordial, O Supreme Ruler, herself consisting of the nature of Time,
abides in the heart-lotus of glorious Śiva, embodying destruction.

For this reason, Mahākāla is the cause of cosmic dissolution.
When Kālī, whose essence is destruction, assumes her manifest form,

at that very moment, O Goddess, Sadāśiva suddenly becomes a corpse-form.
Instantly from that, O restless-eyed one, that Goddess is mounted upon a corpse.

The noble Goddess said:
If Sadāśiva is in a corpse-form, O Great God, a dead body—
why, O Great God, is a dead body not [dissolved into] water?

The noble Śiva said:
In whom Mahākālī is manifest, Sadāśiva is devoid of power;
when he is united with Śakti, O Goddess, then alone does he possess the nature of Śiva.
Devoid of Śakti, he is directly a corpse, [yet] he does not abandon his state of being the Puruṣa.