स्कन्दपुराणम्, रेवाखण्डम्, अध्यायः ४८ (Skanda, Reva 48)
Vyasa (attrib.) — Date not established
Scripture · Sanskrit · Open access
Durga as terrible-faced Chamunda arrives.
Source: Sanskrit Wikisource
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অন্নদামঙ্গল, কৃষ্ণচন্দ্রের সভাবর্ণন
Bharatchandra Ray — 1752
Poetry · Bengali · Open access
Praise of Raja Krishnachandra of Nadia, in whose heart 'Kali shines always'.
Source: Bengali Wikisource
Original source or repositoryঅন্নদামঙ্গল, সতীর দক্ষালয়ে গমনোদ্যোগ
Bharatchandra Ray — 1752
Poetry · Bengali · Open access
Sati shows Shiva her ten Mahavidya forms, Kali first, before going to Daksha's sacrifice.
Source: Bengali Wikisource
Original source or repositoryঅমৰ-কাহিনী: শ্ৰীৰামকৃষ্ণ পৰমহংস (Amar Kahini: Ramakrishna)
Author unrecorded — Date not established
Book · Assamese · Open access
Assamese life of Ramakrishna and the fierce Kali image.
Source: Assamese Wikisource
Original source or repositoryঅৱসান (Awasan)
Author unrecorded — Date not established
Book · Assamese · Open access
Assamese work with a song: 'Kali! Karali! Kalike! Bhima Bhayankara!'
Source: Assamese Wikisource
Original source or repositoryআনন্দমঠ (১৮৮৩), প্রথম খণ্ড, একাদশ পরিচ্ছেদ (Anandamath, Bengali original, 1.11)
Chattopadhyay, Bankim Chandra — 1883
Book · Bengali · Open access
Bengali original of the chapter showing Kali as the Mother 'as she is'; the English translations are already listed.
Source: Bengali Wikisource (public domain)
Original source or repositoryআভাস কাব্য: যশোদা (Abhas Kavya: Yashoda)
Author unrecorded — Date not established
Poetry · Assamese · Open access
Assamese poem describing prayers at a Kali temple.
Source: Assamese Wikisource
Original source or repositoryআসাম বুৰঞ্জী, সপ্তদশ অধ্যায়
Gunabhiram Barua — Date not established
Book · Assamese · Open access
Chapter of the first modern history of Assam, on deities worshipped there including Kalika.
Source: Assamese Wikisource
Original source or repositoryকমলাকান্ত-পদাবলি (Kamalakanta-Padabali)
Kamalakanta Bhattacharya (1769–1820) — 1885 printed edition
Book · Bengali · Open access
An important 1885 Bengali printed collection of poems associated with the Śākta devotional poet Kamalakanta. The Wikimedia Commons record identifies the publication date and author, provides a 117-page document viewer and links the complete original PDF. It extends the site’s Bengali song archive beyond the already cataloged Ramprasad printed works and the 1923 English translation anthology.
Source: Wikimedia Commons — complete 1885 printed edition scan
Original source or repositoryকলিকাতার ইতিহাস, ষষ্ঠ অধ্যায় (History of Calcutta, ch. 6)
Author unrecorded — Date not established
Book · Bengali · Open access
Bengali history of Calcutta with a passage on Kalighat.
Source: Bengali Wikisource (public domain)
Original source or repositoryকালিকা পুৰাণ বা হৰ-গৌৰীৰ বিবাহ (Kalika Purana, or the Marriage of Hara and Gauri)
Author unrecorded — Date not established
Book · Assamese · Open access
Assamese work on the Kalika Purana story of Shiva and Gauri's marriage.
Source: Assamese Wikisource
Original source or repositoryকালী কৈবল্য দায়িনী — Kālī Kaivalya Dāyinī
Nanda Kumar Bhattacharya (Nanda Kumar Kabiratna) — 1867
Book · Bengali · Open access
A nineteenth-century printed Bengali work specifically devoted to Kālī, preserved as a complete multi-page PDF. Strong primary historical evidence for Kali-devotional publishing and original-language terminology in colonial Bengal.
Source: Wikimedia Commons — complete Bengali book scan
Original source or repositoryকালীঘাটের পট ও পটুয়া: লোকশিল্পের নন্দনতত্ত্ব (Kalighat Paintings and Patuas: The Aesthetics of Folk Art)
Utkalika Sahoo — 2026
Article · Bengali · Open access
Complete contemporary Bengali analysis of Kalighat painting and patua artists in the Kali temple pilgrimage economy; not a separate study of Goddess Kālī theology.
Source: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal
Original source or repositoryচণ্ডিকা-মঙ্গল, একাদশ অধ্যায় (Chandika-mangal, ch. 11)
Author unrecorded — Date not established
Poetry · Bengali · Open access
Bengali verse narrative of the goddess in her terrible, garland-wearing form.
Source: Bengali Wikisource (public domain)
Original source or repositoryডমরু-চরিত: প্রথম গল্প, সপ্তম পরিচ্ছেদ (Damaru-charit)
Mukhopadhyay, Trailokyanath — 1923
Book · Bengali · Open access
Comic story mentioning a one-paisa Kalighat painting of Kali.
Source: Bengali Wikisource (public domain)
Original source or repositoryতাম্ৰেশ্বৰীৰ মন্দিৰ (The Tamreswari Temple)
Rajanikanta Bordoloi — 1926
Book · Assamese · Open access
Opening of Bordoloi's historical novel set at the Tamreswari (Kechaikhati) temple, famed for human sacrifice.
Source: Assamese Wikisource
Original source or repositoryতিতাস একটি নদীর নাম, জন্ম মৃত্যু বিবাহ
Advaita Mallabarman — 1956
Book · Bengali · Open access
Chapter on the Malo fishing community's grandest festival, their Kali Puja.
Source: Bengali Wikisource
Original source or repositoryতিতাস একটি নদীর নাম, নয়া বসত
Advaita Mallabarman — 1956
Book · Bengali · Open access
The settlement's elders debate arrangements for the Malo Kali Puja.
Source: Bengali Wikisource
Original source or repositoryদন্দুৱা দ্ৰোহ, অষ্টম অধ্যায়
Rajanikanta Bordoloi — 1928
Book · Assamese · Open access
Novel chapter in which rebels call on 'Ma Kali' and 'Jai Ma Durga' for strength.
Source: Assamese Wikisource
Original source or repositoryদানবদলন কাব্য, পঞ্চম সর্গ
Author unrecorded — Date not established
Poetry · Bengali · Open access
Epic canto describing Kali's lolling tongue, loose hair and red eyes as Mahamaya's form in battle.
Source: Bengali Wikisource
Original source or repositoryনামতি: গোসাঁনীৰ নাম (Namati: Gosanir Naam)
Traditional — Date not established
Poetry · Assamese · Open access
Assamese 'naam' song to the goddess invoking Kali and Chandi.
Source: Assamese Wikisource
Original source or repositoryনামতি: দুৰ্গাৰ নাম (Namati: Durgar Naam)
Traditional — Date not established
Poetry · Assamese · Open access
Assamese song in which Sati in anger becomes terrifying Kali.
Source: Assamese Wikisource
Original source or repositoryনাৰী-ৰত্ন: ৰাণী ৰাসমণি (Nari-Ratna: Rani Rasmani)
Author unrecorded — Date not established
Book · Assamese · Open access
Assamese biography of Rani Rasmani and the Dakshineswar Kali temple.
Source: Assamese Wikisource
Original source or repositoryপটুয়া সঙ্গীত, ২ (Patua Sangeet, no. 2)
Dutt, Gurusaday (coll.) — 1939
Poetry · Bengali · Open access
Scroll-painters' folk song invoking Kali.
Source: Bengali Wikisource (public domain)
Original source or repositoryপত্রাবলী (১৯১২-১৯৩২), ১৭ (Letters 1912-1932, no. 17)
Author unrecorded — Date not established
Article · Bengali · Open access
Letter recalling the Kali temple at Dakshineswar.
Source: Bengali Wikisource (public domain)
Original source or repositoryপথের পাঁচালী, দ্বিতীয় পরিচ্ছেদ
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay — 1929
Book · Bengali · Open access
Recalls the dacoits' Kali temples of the villages and their night pujas before raids.
Source: Bengali Wikisource
Original source or repositoryপদাবলী — রামপ্রসাদ সেন ও অন্যান্য প্রাচীন কবি
Ramprasad Sen and other Bengali poets, including Kamalakanta; published by Ramkanai Das — 1877 (catalogued); Bengali year 1284
Book · Bengali · Open access
This nineteenth-century Bengali anthology preserves songs attributed to Ramprasad Sen together with pieces by other earlier poets. Its title page explicitly identifies it as a collected book with raga and ragini indications, rather than a volume written exclusively by Ramprasad. The table of contents separately lists Ramprasad, Kamalakanta and additional authors. It is valuable as an original-lang
Source: Ramkanai Das; printed at Sudhasindhu Press
Original source or repositoryপদ্য চণ্ডিকাখ্যান (Padya Chandikakhyan)
Kirtichandra Vidyabhushan Goswami — 1908
Poetry · Assamese · Open access
Assamese verse retelling of the Chandi story, where dark Kalika emerges against Chanda and Munda.
Source: Assamese Wikisource
Original source or repositoryপীঠমালা (Pithamala), from Annadamangal
Bharatchandra Ray — 1752
Poetry · Bengali · Open access
Bharatchandra's verse catalogue of the Shakti Pithas, including Kalighat.
Source: Bengali Wikisource (public domain)
Original source or repositoryবিল্বেশ্বৰ: উল্কাদান শ্যামাপূজা (Bilveshvar: Ulkadan Shyamapuja)
Author unrecorded — Date not established
Book · Assamese · Open access
Assamese account of the torch-offering Shyama Puja at Bilveshvar.
Source: Assamese Wikisource
Original source or repositoryবৌ-ঠাকুরাণীর হাট, একাদশ পরিচ্ছেদ (Bou-Thakuranir Haat, ch. 11)
Tagore, Rabindranath — 1883
Book · Bengali · Open access
Tagore's early novel, with a 'Jai Ma Kali' scene.
Source: Bengali Wikisource (public domain)
Original source or repositoryভারতের শক্তি-সাধনা ও শাক্ত সাহিত্য — Bhārater Śakti-Sādhana o Śākta Sāhitya
Shashibhushan Dashgupta — 1970, second edition
Book · Bengali · Open access
An extended Bengali history of Indian Śakti worship and Śākta literary production, including Kali traditions, ritual systems, and literary context. A very substantial research reference beyond isolated songs and short stotras.
Source: Wikimedia Commons — complete Bengali book scan
Original source or repositoryমৃত্যুরূপা মাতা — Kali The Mother (Bengali Translation)
Swami Vivekananda; Bengali translation by Satyendranath Dutta — Web publication 2017-10-17; translation publication date not established
Poetry · Bengali / English · Open access
This official Belur Math page presents Satyendranath Dutta’s Bengali translation of Vivekananda’s Kali the Mother alongside the complete English poem. Its imagery moves through storm, darkness, upheaval, death, and the Mother’s destructive dance. The devotee’s willingness to confront suffering forms the poem’s concluding movement. The parallel texts support study of how a well-known English-langua
Source: Belur Math Media Gallery, Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission
Original source or repositoryমৃত্যুরূপা মাতা (Mother as Death), from Tirtha-Salil
Datta, Satyendranath (trans.); Vivekananda, Swami — 1908
Poetry · Bengali · Open access
Satyendranath Datta's Bengali verse translation of Vivekananda's English poem 'Kali the Mother'.
Source: Bengali Wikisource (public domain)
Original source or repositoryমৈমনসিংহ গীতিকা, কমলা
Dinesh Chandra Sen (ed.) — 1923
Poetry · Bengali · Open access
East Bengal ballad in which a king plans a human sacrifice to Raksha Kali.
Source: Bengali Wikisource
Original source or repositoryরক্তাম্বর-ধারিণী-মা (The Red-Robed Mother), from Agni-Veena
Nazrul Islam, Kazi — 1922
Poetry · Bengali · Open access
Nazrul's poem invoking the fierce, red-clad Mother, from his first collection Agni-Veena.
Source: Bengali Wikisource (public domain)
Original source or repositoryরাজমালা, পঞ্চম পরিচ্ছেদ ৩ (Rajmala)
Bhupendrachandra Chakravarti — Date not established
Book · Bengali · Open access
Tripura royal chronicle: Kali Puja held at King Durga Manikya's deathbed.
Source: Bengali Wikisource
Original source or repositoryরামতনু লাহিড়ী ও তৎকালীন বঙ্গসমাজ, প্রথম পরিচ্ছেদ
Shastri, Shivanath — 1903
Book · Bengali · Open access
Bengali social history with a passage on the poet Ramprasad of Kumarhatta.
Source: Bengali Wikisource (public domain)
Original source or repositoryলোককলা ওজাপালী আৰু সমাজ (Ojapali and Society)
Prabhat Halai — 2021
Book · Assamese · Open access
Study of Assam's Ojapali performance, whose singers worship Manasa, Durga and Kali.
Source: Assamese Wikisource
Original source or repositoryশিৱসাগৰ দৰ্শন, in Chintanal
Kamalakanta Bhattacharya — 1920
Poetry · Assamese · Open access
Poem on Sibsagar's ruins that pictures cremation-ground Kali and calls the nation Mahakali.
Source: Assamese Wikisource
Original source or repositoryশ্যামাসঙ্গীত (Shyama Sangeet), from Swadeshini
Girindramohini Dasi — 1905
Poetry · Bengali · Open access
Devotional song to Shyama (Kali) from Girindramohini Dasi's 1905 collection Swadeshini.
Source: Bengali Wikisource (public domain)
Original source or repositoryশ্রীশ্রীকালী কীর্ত্তন
Ramprasad Sen; edition issued by Srinath Bandyopadhyay and Biharilal Nandi — 1855 (Śaka 1777; Bengali 1262)
Book · Bengali · Open access
This nineteenth-century Bengali printing presents Ramprasad Sen’s Sri Sri Kali Kirtan with a short biography and editorial material. Its opening invokes the guru and announces the narration of Kalika’s childhood and pastoral play, placing the goddess within an intimate poetic world of divine activity. The text is distinct from a later multi-author Padabali anthology and should be catalogued as its
Source: Calcutta New Press; published by Srinath Bandyopadhyay and Biharilal Nandi
Original source or repositoryশ্রীশ্রীকৃষ্ণকালী-পদাবলী (Sri Sri Krishna-Kali Padabali)
Mukhopadhyay, Sarojnath — Date not established
Book · Bengali · Open access
Collection of Bengali songs on the unity of Krishna and Kali.
Source: Bengali Wikisource (public domain)
Original source or repositoryশ্ৰীশ্ৰীচণ্ডী (Sri Sri Chandi)
Bipra Ruchinath — Date not established
Scripture · Assamese · Open access
Assamese verse Chandi, with an introduction on Durga, Chandi and Kali as forms of Prakriti.
Source: Assamese Wikisource
Original source or repositoryসাধক-রঞ্জন (Sādhaka-Rañjana)
Kamalakanta Bhattacharya; editors Basanta Ranjan Roy and Atal Bihari Ghosh — 1925 printed edition; Bangiya Sahitya Parishad
Book · Bengali · Open access
An 81-page complete Bengali printed publication associated with Kamalakanta and preserved in a digitized scan. The file record identifies editors Basanta Ranjan Roy and Atal Bihari Ghosh and publication by Bangiya Sahitya Parishad in Kolkata in 1925. This is a distinct edition and title from the 1885 Padabali volume and should be linked to the same author rather than collapsed into the same catalo
Source: Bangiya Sahitya Parishad; Wikimedia Commons complete scan
Original source or repositoryস্মৃতিকথা: ছেলেবেলার কথা (Smritikatha)
Jnanadanandini Debi — Date not established
Book · Bengali · Open access
Jnanadanandini Debi's childhood memories, including vows to Ma Kali.
Source: Bengali Wikisource (public domain)
Original source or repositoryਚੰਡੀ ਦੀ ਵਾਰ (Chandi di Var)
Guru Gobind Singh — Date not established
Poetry · Punjabi · Open access
Guru Gobind Singh's ballad of Durga's war, in which Kalika springs from her brow.
Source: Punjabi Wikisource
Original source or repositoryઊંચા નીચા રે (Uncha Nicha Re)
Traditional — Date not established
Poetry · Gujarati · Open access
Gujarati garba calling devotees to Bhadrakali Ma.
Source: Gujarati Wikisource
Original source or repository