These are the texts the articles on this site quote, and the edition each quotation comes from. Every verse on this site is copied from one of these editions, never typed from memory. Each article ends with its own sources line giving the exact verses.

Jyotiṣa

  • Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra. Sanskrit from the Chaukhamba edition with the Sudhā commentary (Kāśī Sanskrit Series 220). English checked against R. Santhanam’s translation (Ranjan Publications, 1984).
  • Bṛhat Jātaka of Varāhamihira. Sanskrit from wisdomlib, with Chidambaram Aiyar’s translation.
  • Sārāvalī of Kalyāṇavarma. R. Santhanam’s translation.
  • Phaladīpikā of Mantreśvara. Text and translation at wisdomlib.
  • Yavanajātaka of Sphujidhvaja. Pingree’s edition (1978).
  • Jātaka Pārijāta of Vaidyanātha, chapter 1.

Veda, Itihāsa and Purāṇa

  • Ṛgveda 10.90, the Puruṣa Sūkta. Sanskrit from Wikisource and GRETIL, with the translations of Doniger and Wilson.
  • Śrī Sūkta (Ṛgveda khila 2.6). sanskritdocuments.org, and Scheftelowitz’s 1906 edition via GRETIL.
  • Mahābhārata. Anuśāsana Parva 149, the Viṣṇu Sahasranāma, from the proofread text at sanskritdocuments.org. Śānti Parva 274 from GRETIL.
  • Devī Māhātmya and the Devī Kavaca. The proofread Durgā Saptaśatī at sanskritdocuments.org.
  • Bhāgavata Purāṇa. GRETIL e-text.
  • Matsya Purāṇa. Chapter 179 in the Ānandāśrama edition (ĀnSS 54), read against its page images, with Sanskrit Wikisource.
  • Viṣṇu Purāṇa. The Pathak critical edition (Oriental Institute, Vadodara) via GRETIL, with H. H. Wilson’s 1840 English.
  • Vāmana, Brahmāṇḍa, Kūrma, Liṅga and Śiva Purāṇas. GRETIL e-texts, and Sanskrit Wikisource for the Śiva Purāṇa’s Satīkhaṇḍa.
  • Varāha and Viṣṇudharmottara Purāṇas. Sanskrit Wikisource.
  • Devī Bhāgavata Purāṇa. Devanāgarī from satsangdhara.net.
  • Kālikā Purāṇa. B. N. Shastri’s translation.
  • Skanda Purāṇa, Puruṣottama-kṣetra-māhātmya. Tagare’s translation.
  • Kumārasambhava of Kālidāsa.

Tantra and stotra

  • Toḍala Tantra. GRETIL e-text of Gopinath Kaviraj’s edition in Tantrasaṁgraha, vol. 2 (1970).
  • Puraścaryārṇava, taraṅga 9. The vishvasa.github.io edition.
  • Rudrayāmala, Uttaratantra, and the Mahānirvāṇa Tantra. Arthur Avalon’s translations.
  • Karpūrādi Stotra. The Woodroffe edition with Vimalānanda Svāmī’s commentary.
  • Vīṇāśikhatantra and Kubjikāmata. GRETIL e-texts of Goudriaan’s edition and of the Goudriaan and Schoterman edition.
  • Pīṭhanirṇaya. As published in D. C. Sircar, The Śākta Pīṭhas (1948).
  • Lalitā Sahasranāma. sanskritdocuments.org.
  • Tripurabhairavī Aṣṭottaraśatanāma Stotram. From the Śāktapramoda of Rājā Deva Nandan Singh (1894), at sanskritdocuments.org.
  • Śrī Kālī Dhyānam and Vimalā Dvādaśanāma Stotram. sanskritdocuments.org.

Scholarship

  • D. C. Sircar, The Śākta Pīṭhas, JRASB XIV (1948).
  • David Kinsley, Hindu Goddesses (1986) and Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine (1997).
  • Teun Goudriaan and Sanjukta Gupta, Hindu Tantric and Śākta Literature (1981).
  • Alexis Sanderson, “The Śaiva Age” (2009).
  • Gudrun Bühnemann, “The Goddess Mahācīnakrama-Tārā (Ugra-Tārā) in Buddhist and Hindu Tantrism”, BSOAS 59.3 (1996).
  • Aralere, “Astrological Melothesia in Ancient Rome and India”, UCSB (2023).

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