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Kālī Prātaḥsmaraṇa Stotram

Anonymous — n.d. [online edition]

Scripture · Sanskrit / Hindi · Open access

A short morning remembrance that asks the practitioner to begin the day by mentally approaching Kālī. The verse imagery includes her dark raincloud-like appearance, luminous features, and divine sovereignty. The host provides Hindi explanation alongside the Sanskrit, improving accessibility for Hindi readers. This text represents everyday contemplative devotion and should be distinguished from the

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Kali Presenting the Heads of Chanda and Munda to Durga: Scene from the Devi Mahatmya (Glory of the Goddess)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art — n.d.

Museum record · English · Open access

The record identifies a narrative drawing of Kali presenting the heads of Canda and Munda to Durga. It connects a specific painted scene to the Devi Mahatmya and gives its regional attribution, date, medium, and acquisition data. The entry is a useful bridge between a primary Sanskrit narrative and its reception by painters in the Himalayan hill courts.

Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Kālī Sahasranāma from the Bṛhannīla Tantra

Anonymous; Bhairava–Pārvatī dialogue — n.d. [online edition]

Scripture · Sanskrit · Open access

A complete thousand-name chapter in which Pārvatī asks Bhairava to disclose Kālī’s names. The litany and concluding verses connect praise with prosperity, ritual accomplishment, and spiritual understanding. The final passage explicitly identifies Mahākālī and Nīlasarasvatī without division, providing a textual basis for examining their relation in this particular tradition. That doctrinal claim sh

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Kālī Śānti Stotram

Anonymous — n.d. [online edition]

Scripture · Sanskrit · Open access

A prayer seeking welfare, protection, and the removal of obstacles through Kālī, particularly Guhyakālī. Its concerns extend from the individual worshipper to practitioners, lineages, and the conditions that support religious life. The text invokes the Goddess’s ability to sustain worldly aims while securing spiritual benefit. It complements the fierce and victory-oriented corpus by making peace,

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Kālī Śatanāma Stotram (Bṛhannīlatantra 23)

Anonymous; Bhairava–Pārvatī dialogue — n.d. [online edition]

Scripture · Sanskrit · Open access

Pārvatī asks Bhairava for Mahākālī’s hundred names, and the answer presents the Goddess as world mother, source of knowledge, destroyer, protector, and giver of prosperity. Kapālinī and Kurukullā occur alongside Bhadrakālī and Mahāmāyā. Concluding verses recommend the shorter hundred-name recitation in relation to the thousand-name form. The complete twenty-third chapter is supplied; despite the w

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Kālī Stava Brahmakṛtam

Traditional; attributed dialogue to Brahmā — Publication date not established

Scripture · Sanskrit · Open access

A devotional hymn describing Kālī with dark form, skull imagery, cremation-ground symbolism and an appeal for release from delusion. The complete fifteen-verse composition appears with its closing Śyāmarahasya attribution.

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Kālī Stavanam (Śākinī)

Anonymous; Bhairavī–Bhairava dialogue — n.d. [online edition]

Scripture · Sanskrit · Open access

A complete chapter of the Rudrayāmala Uttaratantra presenting praise of Kālī in the context of Śākinī and the exposition of bodily centres. Its forty-seven verses combine devotion with yogic vocabulary and practices, connecting the Goddess’s forms to the practitioner’s embodied experience. The source is particularly useful for researching the relation between Kālī worship and the six-centre system

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