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Author unrecorded — Date not recorded
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From Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography, Sources for Chapters 1–18. Section: Parallel Editions and Access Records.
Source: Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography
Original source or repositoryPechilis, Karen — 2004 CE
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From Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography, Sources for Chapters 1–18. Section: Scholarly Works.
Source: Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography
Original source or repositoryAvalon, Arthur (Sir John Woodroffe) — Date not recorded
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From Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography, Sources for Chapters 1–18. Section: Primary Texts, Editions, and Translations.
Source: Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography
Original source or repositoryStainton, Hamsa — 2021 CE
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From Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography, Sources for Chapters 1–18. Section: Scholarly Works.
Source: Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography
Original source or repositoryMajumder, Hitaishi — 2022
Article · English · Open access
Overview of Kalighat's legends, history and layout.
Source: Live the World
Original source or repositoryShib Chunder Bose — 1881
Book · English · Open access
Chapter IX, The Kali Poojah Festival, offers an extended account of the festival, its observances and its place in Bengali domestic and public life. The title-page author is Shib Chunder Bose; the host’s automated author heading is inconsistent.
Source: gutenberg.org
Original source or repositoryAuthor unrecorded — Date not recorded
Museum record · English · Metadata only
A museum collection reference to the Hindu deity Kali, migrated from the temple's Scrolls page. Consult the museum for attribution, materials, dating, and image access.
Source: Asian Art Museum
Original source or repositoryAsian Art Museum of San Francisco — c. 1968
Museum record · English · Open access
Bihar painting of Kali on a lion; different object from the catalogue's 13858.
Source: Asian Art Museum, 2023.58
Original source or repositoryGodfrey, Richard B. (artist); LACMA — n.d.
Museum record · English · Open access
Polychrome print of Kali on Shiva.
Source: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, object 65903
Original source or repositoryUnknown (Tamil Nadu) — 11th c.
Museum record · English · Open access
Chola-period image of Kali from Tamil Nadu.
Source: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Original source or repositoryMukherjea, B. K. — 1951 CE
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From Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography, Sources for Chapters 1–18. Section: Scholarly Works.
Source: Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography
Original source or repositoryMoor, Edward — 1810
Book · English · Open access
Pioneering illustrated survey of Hindu deities, with plates and text on Kali.
Source: Wellcome Collection copy, via Internet Archive
Original source or repositoryPadoux, André — 2017 CE
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From Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography, Sources for Chapters 1–18. Section: Scholarly Works.
Source: Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography
Original source or repositoryETV Bharat — 2024
Article · English · Open access
Overview of Kali's prototypes and spread of her worship.
Source: ETV Bharat (opinion)
Original source or repositoryMajumdar, Bijay Chandra — 1920
Book · English · Open access
Lecture noting early Bengali peoples who worshipped Kali.
Source: Wikisource (public domain)
Original source or repositoryTagore, Rabindranath; Tagore, Surendranath (trans.) — 1919 trans. (orig. 1916)
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Tagore's nationalist anti-hero invokes 'the living image of Kali'.
Source: Wikisource (public domain)
Original source or repositoryJiblal Sapkota — 2013
Article · English · Open access
Analyzes Kali iconography by approaching the ten Mahāvidyās as a larger constellation of goddess forms. A direct thematic contribution to understanding Kali names, artistic symbols, and interrelated forms.
Source: Complete journal article — Nepal Journals Online
Original source or repositoryAparna Halpé — 2015-11
Article · English · Open access
Examines how Wilson Harris’s Jonestown reworks Kali within a syncretic, postcolonial literary imagination. Halpé contrasts archetypal readings with the social history of Indo-Guyanese worship, questioning the loss of cultural specificity when the goddess becomes a universal symbol. Substantial analysis of Kali’s relation to female characters, indenture and religious images makes this useful for mo
Source: Interférences littéraires / Literaire interferenties
Original source or repositorySubba Row, T. — 1910
Article · English · Open access
Theosophical reading that invokes 'this veritable Kali'.
Source: Wikisource (public domain)
Original source or repositoryJairo Adrián Hernández — 2025
Article · English · Open access
Examines colonial missionary images of Kali and their reception in Anita Desai’s Voices in the City and Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine. Section 3, pp. 9–15, contains the main Kali discussion, followed by the conclusion on pp. 15–16. Treat the argument as literary interpretation, not independent evidence of historical religious practice.
Source: Philologica Canariensia
Original source or repositoryGovernment of India — 1882 CE
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From Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography, Sources for Chapters 1–18. Section: Legal Authorities and Legislation.
Source: Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography
Original source or repositoryKuchuk, Nika — 2010
Article · English · Open access
Uses Bataille's theory of the sacred to read goat sacrifice in Bengal and Western Kali devotion.
Source: Ottawa Journal of Religion 2, pp. 5-24 (uO Research)
Original source or repositoryChatterji, Shoma A. — 2022
Article · English · Open access
Defends the Kaali poster by Ramprasad's intimate portrayals of Kali.
Source: Countercurrents
Original source or repositoryPrabhananda, Swami — 2003 CE
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From Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography, Sources for Chapters 1–18. Section: Scholarly Works.
Source: Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography
No source URL supplied.Shastri, B. N. — 1991 CE
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From Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography, Sources for Chapters 1–18. Section: Primary Texts, Editions, and Translations.
Source: Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography
Original source or repositoryDilip Kumar Goswami — 1997
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An extensive examination of the Kalika Purana, including its literary construction, mythology, and philosophical themes.
Source: Wisdomlib
Original source or repositorySeetha Vijayakumar — 2017
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A monograph on Kannagi’s transformation across literary and ritual traditions, addressing the relation of the Tamil epic heroine to Kerala goddess worship and to Sri Lankan Pattini traditions. Its final major section studies caste and gender in the Kodungallur Bhagavati cult, Bharani, ritual songs, oracles and possession. It examines how narratives of Kannagi and Kāḷi are joined, contested and per
Source: Institute of English, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram
Original source or repositorySomadeva; Tawney, C. H. (trans.) — 1880-84
Book · English · Open access
Chapter with an invocation to Chamunda, garlanded with skulls.
Source: Wikisource (public domain)
Original source or repositorySomadeva; Tawney, C. H. (trans.) — 1880-84
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Shiva's hymn to Chandi-Chamunda.
Source: Wikisource (public domain)
Original source or repositorySomadeva; Tawney, C. H. (trans.) — 1880-84
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Story collection chapter containing a hymn to Kali, the skull-bearing goddess.
Source: Wikisource (public domain)
Original source or repositoryMark S. G. Dyczkowski (editor and translator); Arṇasiṃha — Undated edition
Scripture · Sanskrit / English · Open access
Complete scholarly presentation of two closely related Krama/Kālī texts, including the cycles of goddesses and Kālasaṃkarṣaṇī. Count this bundled document once.
Source: anuttaratrikakula.org
Original source or repositoryRastogi, Navjivan — 1979 CE
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From Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography, Sources for Chapters 1–18. Section: Scholarly Works.
Source: Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography
Original source or repositoryAbhinavagupta — 2003 CE
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From Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography, Sources for Chapters 1–18. Section: Primary Texts, Editions, and Translations.
Source: Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography
Original source or repositoryDalrymple, William — n.d.
Article · English · Open access
Reportage from Tarapith on Tara and the 'sisterhood' of dark Bengali goddesses with Kali.
Source: Killing the Buddha
Original source or repositoryButler, William — 1894 ed. (orig. 1872)
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American Methodist missionary's account of Indian religion, thugs and goddess worship.
Source: Cornell University Library copy, via Internet Archive
Original source or repositoryPanth, Sirshendu — 2021
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Tangra's Kali temple built with Chinese and Bengali donations.
Source: South Asia Monitor
Original source or repositoryMcDaniel, June — 1989 CE
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From Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography, Sources for Chapters 1–18. Section: Scholarly Works.
Source: Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography
Original source or repositoryTraditional Sanskrit epic attributed to Vyāsa; translated by Kisari Mohan Ganguli — 1883–1896 (translation series)
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The Sauptika Parvan recounts the night attack on the sleeping survivors of the Pandava army, its aftermath and the confrontation involving Ashvatthaman's destructive weapon. Its account of the massacre contains a striking vision relevant to the history of terrifying female divine figures: Ganguli's section VIII describes “Death-Night” in embodied form, a black figure with a bloody mouth and eyes,
Source: Historical Ganguli translation; online transcription at Internet Sacred Text Archive
Original source or repositoryDevadatta Kali (David Nelson) — 2010
Article · English · Open access
Detailed analysis of Kālī, Cāmuṇḍā and Dakṣiṇakālī iconography, Raktabīja and consciousness; situates them in the ten Mahāvidyās.
Source: vedanta.org
Original source or repositoryAuthor unrecorded — Date not recorded
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From Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography, Sources for Chapters 1–18. Section: Parallel Editions and Access Records.
Source: Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography
Original source or repositoryMoodie, Deonnie — 2018 CE
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From Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography, Sources for Chapters 1–18. Section: Scholarly Works.
Source: Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography
Original source or repositoryHalperin, Ehud — 2021 CE
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From Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography, Sources for Chapters 1–18. Section: Scholarly Works.
Source: Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography
Original source or repositoryTraditional Sanskrit Purana; translated by F. Eden Pargiter — 1904
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Pargiter's complete translation provides the broad Puranic setting of the Devī Māhātmya, which appears as cantos 81–93 in this edition. The Kali library's central passages include the emergence of Kali from Ambika's forehead during the battle against Chanda and Munda, the destruction of those two opponents and Chandika's conferral of the name Chamunda. The wider goddess narrative describes the ove
Source: See publication details
Original source or repositorySister Nivedita (Margaret E. Noble) — 1910
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Nivedita's recollections of Vivekananda combine personal observations, recorded conversations and accounts of travels with thematic chapters about his religious teaching. The chapter on the worship of the Mother is directly relevant to Kali: it discusses his relationship with Kali devotion, the connection with Ramakrishna, the interpretation of the terrible aspect of divinity, and Nivedita's own p
Source: Original publisher not independently checked; online Ramakrishna–Vivekananda archive
Original source or repositoryUnknown (Vedanta Society) — 1907
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Early English memoir of Ramakrishna's life and Kali worship.
Source: Digital Library of India, via Internet Archive
Original source or repositoryDevadatta Kali (David Nelson) — 2003
Article · English · Open access
Explains Mahākālī and Cāmuṇḍā in the Devīmāhātmya, Raktabīja as thought/desire, and Ramakrishna’s identity of Brahman and Kālī.
Source: vedanta.org
Original source or repositoryDaly, Sathyabhama — 2002
Article · English · Open access
Reads the Kali dance motif in Koch's novel alongside labyrinth and quest myths.
Source: eTropic 1(2), James Cook University
Original source or repositoryKipling, Rudyard — 1895
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Kipling's story of a statesman-turned-sannyasi living at a deserted Himalayan Kali shrine.
Source: Wikisource (public domain)
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