Vasudeva gives three short mantras of the practical, tantric kind. The first invokes Vishvavasu, the Gandharva who rules over maidens, and its japa is said to win a bride. The second calls on Kalaratri, four-armed, three-eyed, with hair standing upright, the consort of the bear-eared one; the text says it brings death to a named enemy whose time has come, and needs no special tithi, nakshatra or fast. It is recited at dusk by one in anger, hands smeared with blood, and an unbaked pot is broken. The third mantra, addressed to the power that stuns and bewilders, asks for protection of the reciter from every fear and calamity. The chapter is only three verses long and closes abruptly.