Shastra · source index v0.2
Source list — shopping list driven by open questions
Kalikula seed (Kalikula). Top rows are texts needed to close the open questions from the Dakṣiṇa Kālī pin failure — not a general wish-list. Verification column is the honest one: verified links are trusted; “needs manual search” has no invented URL.
| Work | What | Closes | Status | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Śyāmārahasyapriority | Sanskrit edition (needed; not yet acquired) Needed to close open questions #3 (dhyāna) and #7 (upgrade kavaca pin). Colophon lead from compiled Dakṣiṇa Kālī kavaca. | #3 #7 | needs manual search | — |
| Rudrayāmalapriority | Sanskrit edition (needed; not yet acquired) Needed to close open question #7 (compiled kavaca attributes Rudrayāmala / Śyāmārahasya). | #7 | needs manual search | — |
| Toḍala Tantrapriority | Sanskrit edition Needed to close open questions #1–#5 (primary Mahāvidyā / Dakṣiṇa pins beyond compilations). High-value, low-availability. | #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 | needs manual search | — |
| Kālikā Purāṇa | English translation (B.N. Shastri, Nag Publishers) Best English full text. OCR searched for Dakṣiṇa / Krīm / kavaca — zero hits for Dakṣiṇa Kālī module pins (see observation 3.8). Public domain. | — | verified | open |
| Kālikā Purāṇa | Sanskrit (Khemraj 1891 / 1948 eds.) Original Sanskrit, Devanagari, OCR'd. | — | verified | open |
| Kālikā Purāṇa | Sanskrit + Hindi (Acharya Mrityunjay Tripathi, Navshakti, vol 1) Good for cross-checking. Vol 2 available under similar archive.org path. | — | verified | open |
| Kālikā Purāṇa | Sanskrit (Wikisource) Digital searchable Sanskrit. | — | verified | open |
| Kālikā Purāṇa | Curated aggregator of all editions Start here — collected working links; use as source-finding hub. | — | verified | open |
| Devī Māhātmya (Durgā Saptaśatī) | Multiple English translations (public domain) Widely available on archive.org / sacred-texts; verify specific edition. Coburn likely copyrighted (cite-only). | — | needs manual search | — |
| Mahānirvāṇa Tantra | English (Woodroffe/Avalon) Woodroffe is public domain; sacred-texts hosts it — verify link. | — | needs manual search | — |
| Kālī Tantra / Niruttara Tantra / Yoginī Tantra / Kāmākhyā Tantra | Sanskrit editions Yoginī Tantra (Kamakhya-linked) most likely findable; others patchy. | — | needs manual search | — |
| Mahākāla Saṃhitā | Sanskrit edition Key Kalikula source for Kali forms (Samhara Kali etc.). | — | needs manual search | — |
| Karpūrādi Stotra | English w/ commentary (Woodroffe/Avalon, Hymn to Kali) Dakshinakali hymn; cittavāsinī question lives here. Public domain — verify exact link. | — | needs manual search | — |
| Tantrasāra (Kṛṣṇānanda Āgamavāgīśa) | Bengali/Sanskrit edition Central to the Bengali Kalikula stream. | — | needs manual search | — |
| Śāktapramoda / Puraścaryārṇava | Sanskrit editions Ritual digests collecting dhyanas & mantras. | — | needs manual search | — |
| Ramprasad Sen / Kamalakanta Bhattacharya (Śākta padāvalī) | Bengali collections + English translations McDermott scholarly English translations are cite-only (copyrighted). | — | needs manual search | — |
| David Kinsley, Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine | Peer-reviewed scholarship on the ten Mahavidyas Cite-only. The scholarly anchor for Mahavidya iconography. | — | paid / library | — |
| Mark Dyczkowski, The Doctrine of Vibration | Spanda metaphysics Cite-only. Anchor for spanda metaphysics. | — | paid / library | — |
| Rachel Fell McDermott (Bengali Shakta / Kali poetry) | Scholarship on Bengali Shakta stream Cite-only. | — | paid / library | — |
| Vidya Dehejia, Yoginī Cult and Temples | Yoginī roster research Cite-only. Anchor for 64-Yogini roster-instability finding. | — | paid / library | — |
| Jaideva Singh (Vijñānabhairava, Spanda Karikas, Pratyabhijnahrdayam) | Accessible scholarly translations of Kashmir Śaiva core Cite-only. Some may be on archive.org — verify. | — | paid / library | — |
| Neurology India 2019 — Tantra and Modern Neurosciences | Venkatraman, Nandy, Jayasundar et al. Free full text at journals.lww.com / PubMed — verify exact article URL before linking. Closest Tantra↔neuroscience bridge. | — | verified | — |