শ্রীশ্রীকালী কীর্ত্তন
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- Catalogue identifier
- kali-0133
- Alternate titles and import identifiers
- KALI-0133; ramprasad_kalikirtan_1855
- Author or attribution
- Ramprasad Sen; edition issued by Srinath Bandyopadhyay and Biharilal Nandi
- Record type
- Book
- Language
- Bengali
- Date / edition
- 1855 (Śaka 1777; Bengali 1262)
- Source / repository
- Calcutta New Press; published by Srinath Bandyopadhyay and Biharilal Nandi
- Access
- Open access
- Subjects
- Kali Library Research Catalogue; Bengali Kali Literature; Historical Accounts and Colonial Records; Hymns, Prayers, and Devotional Poetry
Description and curator notes
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 own published work. The scan contains the complete 1855 printed edition, including the final printed completion marker. A significant transmission qualification remains: an editorial note near the end acknowledges inability to obtain all the desired poetic material. Thus the digital volume is complete as an edition, while the historical editors themselves disclose a limitation in their textual sources. Bengali OCR is unproofread and must be checked against the page images before quotation or translation.
KALI-0133 — Kali Library Research Catalogue.
Access and reliability assessments below are supplied by the curator's 4–5 November 2026 research release, not a new independent verification.
Sri Sri Kali Kirtan
Author / attribution: Ramprasad Sen; edition issued by Srinath Bandyopadhyay and Biharilal Nandi
Publication: Calcutta New Press; published by Srinath Bandyopadhyay and Biharilal Nandi · 1855 (Śaka 1777; Bengali 1262)
Calcutta, Bhadra Śaka 1777; Wikisource catalog dates edition 1855. Fifty scan images; text ends on printed page 36.
Format / language: Historical book / primary devotional or interpretive source · Bengali
Composition / textual history: Eighteenth-century poetry attributed to Ramprasad Sen; exact composition date unverified.
Identifier: ramprasad_kalikirtan_1855
Kali relevance: Direct Bengali poetic work on Kalika/Kali and her divine play.
Context: Complete historical printed edition; the editors acknowledge unavailable portions of their source material. Do not describe it as a critical reconstruction of a complete original authorial text.
Subjects: Bengali Kali Literature; Historical Accounts and Colonial Records; Hymns, Prayers, and Devotional Poetry
Evidence / reliability: Primary historical Bengali edition with explicit textual-transmission limitation and unproofread transcription.
Access / rights: Complete text checked 2026-11-04. 1855 historical printing in the public domain; Wikisource transcription terms apply. Consult page scans because OCR is unproofread.
Source and alternate access links:
Read complete text: https://bn.wikisource.org/wiki/নির্ঘণ্ট:শ্রীশ্রীকালী_কীর্ত্তন-রামপ্রসাদ_সেন.djvu
Source access
Rights and reading conditions
Complete text checked 2026-11-04. 1855 historical printing in the public domain; Wikisource transcription terms apply. Consult page scans because OCR is unproofread. This library links to the source and does not reproduce its full text.
Citation
Ramprasad Sen; edition issued by Srinath Bandyopadhyay and Biharilal Nandi. শ্রীশ্রীকালী কীর্ত্তন. Calcutta New Press; published by Srinath Bandyopadhyay and Biharilal Nandi · 1855 (Śaka 1777; Bengali 1262).
This page supplies catalogue metadata and links. It does not reproduce the underlying source text. Historical, religious, healing and interpretive claims belong to the cited sources, not to an independent verification by this catalogue.