Endnotes

PREFACE

1. Saraswati, Shree Maa.

INTRODUCTION. KALI AND THE TANTRIC PATH

1. Woodroffe, Garland of Letters, 220.

2. Ibid., 220–21.

3. Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit-English Dictionary.

4. Wallis, Tantra Illuminated, 26.

5. Fischer-Schreiber, Ehrhard, Friedrichs, and Diener, The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion, 354.

CHAPTER 1. KALI’S ORIGINS AND SYMBOLISM

1. Coburn, Encountering the Goddess, 61–62.

2. Nikhilananda, The Gospel of Ramakrishna, 271.

3. Magee, The Yoni Tantra.

4. Ibid.

5. Ibid.

6. Silburn, Siva sutra et Vimarsini de Ksemaraja.

CHAPTER 2. THE KAULA TRADITION

1. Odier, Yoga Spandakarika, 147–64. (Includes the complete text of the Vijnanabhairava Tantra in English.)

2. Avalon, Kularnava Tantra.

3. Silburn, Hymnes aux Kali.

4. Saraswati, Sri Vijnana Bhairava Tantra.

5. Sironi, Vijnanabhairava.

6. Daniélou, Le mystère du culte du linga.

7. Silburn, Hymnes aux Kali.

CHAPTER 5. THE RITUALS OF KALI AND THE SACRED UNION

1. Fischer-Schreiber, Ehrhard, Friedrichs, and Diener, The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion, 425.

CHAPTER 6. ADVANCING ON THE KAULA PATH

1. Matsyendranath, Kaulajnananirnaya Tantra.

2. Ibid.

3. Ibid.

4. Ibid.

CHAPTER 7. HYMNS AND SONGS IN PRAISE OF KALI

1. Mookerjee, Kali, the Feminine Force, 86–88.

2. Shastri and Ménant, Hymnes à la Déesse.

3. Ibid.

4. Ramprasad, Chants à Kali, 242