Ok. Here are, without rhyme or reason (explained), the invocations/prologues from two of Kalidasa's plays. I have been wanting to post this post for sometime now.

From Abhijnanashakuntalam

That First Creation of the Creator *;
That Bearer of Oblations offered with Holy Rites;
That One who utters the Holy Chants;
Those two that order Time;
That which extends, World-Pervading in which sound flows impinging on the ear;
That which is proclaimed the Universal Womb of Seeds;
That which fills all forms that breathe with the Breath of Life.

May the Supreme Lord of the Universe who stands revealed in these eight forms perceptible preserve you.

(*respectively Water, Fire, Priest, Sun and Moon, Space, Earth and Air)

From Malavikagnimitram

May the Lord who, though enjoying obsolute soereignty from which result many blessings to his votaries, yet himself wears an elephant hide; who although united in body with his beloved, yet excels the ascetics whose minds are free from (pleasures of) sense; in whom there is no pride, although with his eight-fold forms he sustains the universe - may he remove your state of ignorance that you may behold the right way.