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The Library of Kali Ma — Source Directory

Browse 2,010 curated Kali Ma source records with authors, languages, dates, citations and original source links. Directory page 15 of 42.

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Kali at Tarapeeth

MacDougall, Robert D. (photographer) — c. 1960-1987

Museum record · English · Open access

Archival photograph of Kali being worshipped at the Tarapith Shakti Pitha.

Source: Cornell University Library, Beyond the Taj collection, MCD_04940

Original source or repository

Kali attacking Nisumbha

Cleveland Museum of Art — n.d.

Museum record · English · Open access

This collection record identifies a painted battle involving Kali and Nisumbha and interprets the combat within goddess mythology. It supplies a dated regional example for readers comparing narrative cycles with Sanskrit textual accounts. The complete description and object metadata are available without login, making it a useful short reference in an iconography section.

Source: Cleveland Museum of Art

Original source or repository

Kali Dancing on Shiva (recto), from a Kalighat album

Cleveland Museum of Art — n.d.

Museum record · English · Open access

A concise written catalog record identifying a Kalighat image of Kali dancing on Shiva, with its approximate date, medium, dimensions, and accession information. The available text is primarily object metadata rather than an extended curatorial essay. It is retained as an already-listed, complete catalog record and should be presented with that limited extent clearly indicated.

Source: Cleveland Museum of Art

Original source or repository

Kâli décapitée à la rencontre de la prose et de la poésie

Stéphanie Smadja — 2000

Article · French · Open access

Smadja offers a sustained formal reading of Yourcenar’s Kâli décapitée, asking whether its narrative belongs to the short story or to the prose poem. She examines white space, repetitions, sound patterns, syntax and the larger arrangement of the text. The recurring name Kâli functions as a refrain and helps organize a sequence that moves between narrative development and poetic amplification. Comp

Source: Société Internationale d’Études Yourcenariennes

Original source or repository

Kālī Dhyānam

Anonymous — n.d. [online edition]

Scripture · Sanskrit · Open access

Thirteen verses describe Kālī for devotional contemplation: loose hair, a severed head and sword, gestures of protection and generosity, and a garland of heads. Cremation-ground imagery and her relationship to Mahākāla frame the visualisation. The text balances fierce iconography with the Goddess’s assurance to devotees. It provides a compact primary source for an image or iconography section of t

Source: Sanskrit Documents volunteer project

Original source or repository

Kālī Kakārādi Nāmāvalī (108 Names) / Kālīśatanāma Stotram 2

Anonymous; traditionally spoken by Bhairava — n.d. [online edition]

Scripture · Sanskrit · Open access

This twenty-two-verse hymn contains the name sequence beginning Kālī, Kapālinī, Kāntā, Kāmadā, and Kāmasundarī, which identifies the textual family used on KaliDevotion.com. The companion nāmāvalī arranges the names as 108 individual salutations. Names evoke lineage, desire, sacred places, feminine powers, and Kṛṣṇa connections. Introductory and concluding verses explain devotional use and protect

Source: Sanskrit Documents volunteer project

Original source or repository

Kālī Kṣamāparādha Stotram

Anonymous — n.d. [online edition]

Scripture · Sanskrit · Open access

The speaker asks Kālī to forgive failures of worship and attention across the stages and circumstances of life. A repeated appeal to the Goddess as Kāmarūpā and Karālā binds confession to her formidable manifestation. Childhood, desire, worldly involvement, and bodily decline become occasions for reflecting on neglected devotion. The hymn offers a particularly personal voice within the collection,

Source: Sanskrit Documents volunteer project

Original source or repository

Kālī Mantras

KaliDevotion.com — Date not recorded

Reference · Not specified · Metadata only

From Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography, Sources for Chapters 1–18. Section: Institutional, Archival, and Web Sources.

Source: Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography

Original source or repository

Kali Mata Temple (Kalka)

Shri Mata Mansa Devi Shrine Board — Date not established

Reference · English · Open access

Shrine board page on the Kalka Kali temple and its Pandava legend.

Source: Shri Mata Mansa Devi Shrine Board (Haryana)

Original source or repository

Kali on Shiva, from a Tantric Devi Series

Cleveland Museum of Art — n.d.

Museum record · English · Open access

The written entry discusses a Tantric goddess painting associated with Mandi and explains its cremation-ground setting and the relation between Kali and Shiva. It offers a concise guide to imagery used for meditation and worship, supported by the object’s technical and collection information. The cataloged source is the complete museum record, not an edition of the underlying Tantric texts.

Source: Cleveland Museum of Art

Original source or repository