Bidyasundar
Sen, Ramprasad — 1886
Book · Bengali · Open access
Ramprasad's version of the Vidyasundar romance, framed by Kali worship.
Source: Internet Archive (Bengali books collection)
Original source or repositoryThe 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 5 of 42.
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Bijoy Chandi
Roy, Motilal — 1880
Book · Bengali · Open access
Jatra play by the leading jatra writer Motilal Roy on the goddess's victory.
Source: Digital Library of India, via Internet Archive
Original source or repositoryBirbhum's 300-Year-Old Nirisha Kali, Who Cures Ailments of Women and Bestows Good Fortune
Bhattacharya, Ahana — 2025
Article · English · Open access
History and rites of Nirisha Kali.
Source: The CSR Journal
Original source or repositoryBlood in the Mainstream: Kālī Pūjā and Tantric Orthodoxy in Early Modern Bengal
Bordeaux, Joel — 2019 CE
Article · Not specified · Metadata only
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 repositoryBloodletting at Dakshinkali
Wynne, Candice — n.d.
Article · English · Open access
Traveller's account of Saturday sacrifices at Dakshinkali.
Source: Wanderlust and Lipstick
Original source or repositoryBloodthirsty, or Not, That Is the Question: An Ethnography-Based Discussion of Bhadrakāḷi’s Use of Violence in Popular Worship, Ritual Performing Arts and Narratives in Central Kerala (South India)
Pasty-Abdul Wahid, Marianne — 2020/4
Article · English · Open access
An ethnographic investigation of whether Bhadrakāḷī should be understood simply as a bloodthirsty goddess. Drawing on worship, ritual performance, and versions of the Dārika story in central Kerala, the article examines how violence is represented, generated, controlled, and interpreted in particular ritual settings. It pays attention to relationships among the goddess, devotees, ritual specialist
Source: Religions
Original source or repositoryBloody Sacrifices for Goddess Kali in Dakshinkali near Kathmandu
Jontes, Günther — n.d.
Article · English · Open access
Illustrated eyewitness essay on sacrifice at Dakshinkali.
Source: Austria-Forum
Original source or repositoryBonalu
Hyderabad District Administration, Government of Telangana — 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 repositoryBook Review: Absent Mother God of the West: A Kali Lover's Journey into Christianity and Judaism
Hillgardner, Holly — 2017
Article · English · Open access
Review of Neela Bhattacharya Saxena's book reading Christianity and Judaism through Kali devotion.
Source: Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies 30, Butler University Digital Commons
Original source or repositoryBook Review: Interpreting Ramakrishna: Kali's Child Revisited
McDaniel, June — 2011
Article · English · Open access
Long review of Tyagananda and Vrajaprana's reply to Kali's Child, with comments on Bengali Shakta tantra.
Source: Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies 24, Butler University Digital Commons
Original source or repositoryBook Review: Kali's Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna
Vrajaprana, Pravrajika — 1997
Article · English · Open access
A Vedanta Society nun's critical response to Kripal's Kali's Child.
Source: Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies 10, Butler University Digital Commons
Original source or repositoryBook Review: Mother of the Universe: Visions of the Goddess and Tantric Hymns of Enlightenment
Dand, Arti — 1995
Article · English · Open access
Review of Lex Hixon's renderings of Ramprasad's songs to the Mother.
Source: Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies 8, Butler University Digital Commons
Original source or repositoryBoro Maa Kali Temple, Naihati: History of the 21-ft Kali
HinduTone Editorial Team — n.d.
Article · English · Open access
History and worship of Naihati's giant Kali.
Source: HinduTone
Original source or repositoryBouez (Serge), La Déesse apaisée [compte rendu]
Padoux, André — 1994
Article · French · Open access
Padoux's review of Bouez's study of norm and transgression in Bengali goddess worship.
Source: Archives de sciences sociales des religions 88, pp. 52-53 (Persée)
Original source or repositoryBrahmanism and Hinduism; or, Religious Thought and Life in India
Monier Monier-Williams — 1891
Book · English · Open access
Chapter VII, Saktism, or Goddess-worship, discusses Kali and the worship of divine power. This complete edition is useful for studying nineteenth-century representations of Shakta religion, including their orientalist and missionary assumptions.
Source: rarebooksocietyofindia.org
Original source or repositoryBrahmaprokta Kālī Stuti (Kālikā Purāṇa 5.15–50)
Traditional; speech attributed to Brahmā — Publication date not established
Scripture · Sanskrit · Open access
Longer prayer associating the goddess with consciousness, illusion, liberation, the elements of religious worship and the processes of creation and dissolution. It is a separate contiguous passage from the second Brahmā hymn.
Source: Sanskrit Documents volunteer project
Original source or repositoryBrahmaprokta Kālī Stuti (Kālikā Purāṇa 5.54–59)
Traditional; speech attributed to Brahmā — Publication date not established
Scripture · Sanskrit · Open access
A compact hymn characterizing the goddess as the force of manifestation, withdrawal and three guṇas. The separately numbered verses and explicit completion line demonstrate that this is a complete passage, not a teaser or abstract.
Source: Sanskrit Documents volunteer project
Original source or repositoryBrass Figure of the Hindu Goddess Kali
Unknown — 1801-1900
Museum record · English · Open access
19th-century Indian brass Kali from the Wellcome collections (note: museum title calls her 'Goddess of Death').
Source: Science Museum Group, co123234
Original source or repositoryBṛhannīla Tantra
Madhusudan Kaul (editor, as recorded by Muktabodha) — 1941; 1941 is the edition date in Muktabodha metadata; digital revision 2008.
Scripture · Sanskrit · Open access
A complete twenty-four-chapter Tantra of Nila/Tara worship, with extensive Kali material, including the relationship between Kali and Nila and descriptions of Shakta rites. It provides a larger textual setting for isolated hymns attributed to this Tantra.
Source: Muktabodha transcription of a Srinagar edition
Original source or repositoryBṛhat Tantrasāra
Kṛṣṇānanda Āgamavāgīśa — Date not recorded
Book · Sanskrit / Hindi · Metadata only
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 repositoryBriefly Noted: Encountering Kali (review)
Coward, Harold — 2004
Article · English · Open access
Short review of McDermott and Kripal's edited volume Encountering Kali.
Source: Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies 17, Butler University Digital Commons
Original source or repositoryBroken Ties, Chapter 2
Tagore, Rabindranath — 1925
Book · English · Open access
A character covers sheets with the name of Kali, the protecting goddess.
Source: Wikisource (public domain)
Original source or repositoryBronze Figure of the Hindu Deity Kali
Unknown — n.d.
Museum record · English · Open access
Bronze Kali figure in the Fitzwilliam and Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology collections.
Source: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Loan 3021.9)
Original source or repositoryBrooklyn NY Mandir Celebrates 25th Anniversary of 1st Kali Karagam Puja in North America
Kalicharran, Romanee R. — 2024
Article · English · Open access
Indo-Guyanese Kali (Madrassi) Karagam festival in Brooklyn.
Source: Guyana Times
Original source or repositoryBudhibanta, the Boy Weaver (Bengal Fairy Tales)
Bradley-Birt, Francis Bradley — 1920
Book · English · Open access
Bengali folk tale in which Kali plays a part.
Source: Wikisource (public domain)
Original source or repositoryCalcutta (Life in India)
Dulles, John Welsh — 1855
Book · English · Open access
American missionary's description of Kali worship in mid-19th-century Calcutta.
Source: Wikisource (public domain)
Original source or repositoryCalcutta, Old and New: A Historical and Descriptive Handbook to the City
Cotton, H. E. A. — 1907
Book · English · Open access
Handbook to Calcutta with an account of the Kalighat temple and its name.
Source: Internet Archive (Google Books scan)
Original source or repositoryCalcutta, Past and Present
Blechynden, Kathleen — 1905
Book · English · Open access
Early-20th-century history of Calcutta including Kalighat.
Source: Internet Archive (Google Books scan)
Original source or repositoryCamatkara on Cremation Ground: A Reading of Ramprasad Sen's Songs in Light of Abhinavagupta's Aesthetics
Abhik Ganguly — 2025 issue / 2026 digital
Article · English · Open access
Applies Kashmir Shaiva concepts of aesthetic experience to Ramprasad Sen's Kali devotional song tradition. The full paper appears as a self-contained piece in a publicly readable journal-issue PDF.
Source: Anhad Lok, literature issue 2025, from p.95; ISSN 2349-137X
Original source or repositoryCamunda Stotram 1 (Skanda Purana)
Anonymous; Skanda Purana attribution — n.d. [online edition]
Scripture · Sanskrit · Open access
First of three Camunda hymns in the collection.
Source: Sanskrit Documents volunteer project
Original source or repositoryCamunda Stotram 2 (Skanda Purana: Jaya sarvagate devi)
Anonymous; Skanda Purana attribution — n.d. [online edition]
Scripture · Sanskrit · Open access
Second Skanda Purana hymn to Camunda.
Source: Sanskrit Documents volunteer project
Original source or repositoryCamunda Stotram 3 (Rudrayamala: Aim bijam paramatma)
Anonymous; Rudrayamala attribution — n.d. [online edition]
Scripture · Sanskrit · Open access
Tantric Camunda hymn built on seed syllables.
Source: Sanskrit Documents volunteer project
Original source or repositoryCamunda Stuti (Padma Purana)
Anonymous; Padma Purana attribution — n.d. [online edition]
Scripture · Sanskrit · Open access
Praise of Camunda, the Kali form named for slaying Chanda and Munda.
Source: Sanskrit Documents volunteer project
Original source or repositoryCaṇḍī Stuti from Śyāmarahasya
Traditional; Bhairava voice — Publication date not established
Scripture · Sanskrit · Open access
A complete prayer to Caṇḍī preserved in a Kālī-oriented Tantra, with emphasis on the goddess’s feet, grace, protective force and devotee’s request for blessing. Included as a related-form source, not misrepresented as a Kali-specific hymn.
Source: Sanskrit Documents volunteer project
Original source or repositoryCapturing the Images of Time: Indian Folk Art of Kalighat
Varvara S. Novikova — 2026
Article · Russian · Open access
Substantial history of the development of Kalighat art around the temple of Kali, with attention to colonial influence, iconography, modern reception, and collecting. Full article is in Russian; English title and abstract are available.
Source: HSE University Journal of Art & Design 9(1), 96-133
Original source or repositoryCaribbean Hinduism on the Move
Pillai, Rupa Narayana — 2017
Dissertation · English · Open access
Dissertation on Caribbean Hinduism with discussion of the Kali Mai (Madrassi) tradition.
Source: University of Oregon (PhD, Anthropology), Scholars' Bank
Original source or repositoryCarrin (Marine), Enfants de la Déesse: Dévotion et prêtrise féminines au Bengale [compte rendu]
Lecomte-Tilouine, Marie — 1998
Article · French · Open access
Review of Carrin's ethnography of female devotees and priestesses of the goddess in Bengal.
Source: Archives de sciences sociales des religions 102, pp. 46-47 (Persée)
Original source or repositoryCaste-based Oppression, Trauma and Collective Victimhood in Erstwhile South India: The Collective Therapeutic Potential of Theyyam
Ahammed, B. — 2019 CE
Article · Not specified · Metadata only
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 repositoryCaste, Performance and Subversive Women: What Makes Kali Iconography Distinctive in South India
Sinha, Gayatri — 2024
Article · English · Open access
Curator's essay on South Indian Kali images and performance.
Source: Scroll.in
Original source or repositoryCatholic, Shia and Shakta Salvation Through Mystical Sorrow: Holy Mothers and Sacred Families
McDaniel, June — 2025/2
Article · English · Open access
Compares the transformation of suffering into sacred sorrow in Catholic Christianity, Shia Islam, and Shakta Hinduism. The Shakta discussion places Kali and the divine mother within a family-centered devotional vocabulary, showing how grief and emotional identification can become means of religious closeness. The article is useful for readers studying maternal imagery, devotional feeling, and the
Source: Religions
Original source or repositoryCelebrating Kali Puja in Bangladesh
Bangladesh.com — n.d.
Article · English · Open access
Overview of Kali Puja customs in Bangladesh.
Source: Bangladesh.com (blog)
Original source or repositoryCelebrating Kali Pujo and Diwali – a time for Mishti Polao and Payesh in India
Saha, Ishita B. — 2022
Article · English · Open access
Personal essay on household Kali Pujo rituals and festival foods.
Source: Gulf News
Original source or repositoryCélébration de la Grande Déesse (Devî-mâhâtmya), texte sanskrit traduit et commenté par Jean Varenne [compte rendu]
Ralph Stehly — 1979
Book · French · Open access
A two-page review of Jean Varenne’s French translation and commentary on the Devi Mahatmya. It discusses the goddess’s supremacy, her relation to the other gods, and Kali’s emergence within the narrative. The review helps trace French scholarly reception of this foundational scripture and points to a specific translation for future acquisition. Both pages of the review are accessible. The reviewed
Source: Revue d’histoire et de philosophie religieuses / Persée
Original source or repositoryCenturies-Old Tradition of Shackling 'Jai Kali' Continues
Sinha, Dibyendu — 2024
Article · English · Open access
Legend and rite of the chained Jai Kali.
Source: Millennium Post
Original source or repositoryCentury-old Maa Kali temple in Odisha's Jajpur tells stories of Ramayana & Raavan
Baliarsingh, Cassian — 2024
Article · English · Open access
Report on a neglected Kali and Mahadev temple in Jajpur.
Source: Odisha TV
Original source or repositoryÇeviride göstergebilimsel yaklaşımla inceleme: “Boynu Vurulan Kali” – Bir vaka çalışması
A. Zeynep Oral — 2024
Article · Turkish · Open access
Oral examines Marguerite Yourcenar’s literary story “Kâli décapitée” and its Turkish translation in Doğu Hikâyeleri through narrative semiotics. The analysis uses Greimas’s actantial model and distinctions between states and actions to explore desire, agency, identity and cognitive transformation. Close comparisons of French passages with Hür Yumer’s Turkish wording investigate how the translated
Source: DergiPark — open journal article
Original source or repositoryCeylon (Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913)
de Sampayo, Thomas Edward — 1913
Reference · English · Open access
Notes devalas where Kali is worshipped by Sri Lankan Buddhists.
Source: Wikisource (public domain)
Original source or repositoryChamunda
MAP Academy — 2023
Reference · English · Open access
Encyclopedia entry on Chamunda's iconography, texts and temples.
Source: MAP Academy Encyclopedia of Art
Original source or repository