The Secular and the Religious in Kṣemendra’s Samayamātṛkā

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Catalogue identifier: klm000084
Alternate titles and import identifiers: KLM000084
Author or attribution: Oscar Figueroa
Record type: Article
Language: English
Date / edition: 2019
Source / repository: Comitato AIT / Edizioni AIT
Access: Open access
Subjects: KLM Research Sources — Second Set, 5 November 2026; Academic Research and Peer-Reviewed Articles; Literature, Poetry, and Cultural Reception

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Figueroa reassesses the religious dimensions of Kṣemendra’s satire. His reading relates the bawd Kaṅkālī to Kālī, Cāmuṇḍā and Karālā, examining death imagery and the parodic initiation of Kalāvatī. Rather than treating every caricature as a rejection of Tantra, he argues that the work advances a broader critique of hypocrisy. This makes the article useful for understanding how fierce-goddess symbolism could function within literary satire and ethical argument.

Curator research source KLM000084, second set dated 5 November 2026. Verification, chronology, completeness, access and licence statements below are supplied by the curator, not a new independent audit by this library. Full texts are linked, not reproduced. Abstract languages do not change the full work's language label.

The Secular and the Religious in Kṣemendra’s Samayamātṛkā

Author and date: Oscar Figueroa • 2019

Publication: Comitato AIT / Edizioni AIT. Indologica Taurinensia 45 (2019), pp. 39–61. Official 32-page PDF includes issue front matter and the complete article.

Language: English

Kali relevance: Substantial goddess-focused analysis at pp 43–48, with implications developed in the conclusion.

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Subjects: Academic Research and Peer-Reviewed Articles; Literature, Poetry, and Cultural Reception

Dates: Modern secondary scholarship; Modern published scholarly text; see publication date

Verification and limits: Complete article boundaries and representative argument inspected. Literary satire is not a neutral description of historical devotees; distinguish goddess Kālī from male Kali.

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Oscar Figueroa. The Secular and the Religious in Kṣemendra’s Samayamātṛkā. Comitato AIT / Edizioni AIT. Indologica Taurinensia 45 (2019), pp. 39–61. Official 32-page PDF includes issue front matter and the complete article. 2019. https://www.asiainstitutetorino.it/indologica/volumes/vol45/IT_45_02_FIGUEROA.pdf

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