Kalika-Purana
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The Kalika-Purana (composed c10th century in Kamarupa (modern Assam) is one of the 18 Upapuranas. It is an important work which has been quoted as an authority by smriti digest writers from all over India. The Upapurana contains 98 chapters with about 9000 stenzas and is the only work of the series dedicated to recommend the worship of the bride of Siva, in one or other of her manifold forms such as Giri-ja, Devi, Bhadra-Kali, Kali, and Mahamaya etc. It glorifies mother goddess Kamakhya, and details the ritual procedures in worshipping the goddess. The work belongs, therefore, to the Sakta modification of Hindu belief or worship of the female powers of the deities. The Upapurana contains gratuitous material which refers to events and conditions from the remote past, some of which are indeed of historical interest. It is also one of the rare Hindu texts that actually mention the word Hindu.
