Translations
Coburn, Thomas B. 1991. Encountering the Goddess: A Translation of the Devī-Māhātmya and a Study of Its Interpretation. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.
Kali, Devadatta. 2004. In Praise of the Goddess: The Devīmāhātmya and Its Meaning. York Beach, Me.; Enfield: Nicolas-Hays ; Airlift.
Partial Translations
Balkaran, Raj. 2021. “A Tale of Two Boons: The Goddess and the Dharmic Double Helix.” In The Purāṇa Reader, edited by Deven Patel and Dheepa Sundaram. San Diego: Cognella Academic Publishing.
Balkaran, Raj. 2019b. “Visions and Revisions of the Hindu Goddess: Sound, Structure, and Artful Ambivalence in the Devī Māhātmya.” Edited by Patricia Dold. Religions, Special Volume: “On Violence: Voices and Visions from the Hindu Goddess Traditions,” 10 (5): 322.
Dimmitt, Cornelia, and J. A. B. van Buitenen. 1978. Classical Hindu Mythology: A Reader in the Sanskrit Purāṇas. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Doniger, Wendy, ed. 2004. Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit. London; New York: Penguin.
Antiquated Translations
Agrawala, Vasudeva Sharana. 1963. Devī-Māhātmyam: The Glorification of the Great Goddess. Varanasi: All-India Kashiraj Trust.
Burnouf, Eugene. 1824. “Analyse Et Extrait Du Devi Mahatmyam, Fragmens Du Markandeya Pourana.” Société Asiatique 1 (4): 24–32.
Dutt, Manmatha Nath. 1896. A Prose English Translation of Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa. Calcutta: Elysium.
Jagadisvarananda, Swami. 1972. The Devi-Mahatmyam or Sri Durga-Saptasati (700 Mantras on Sri Durga). Madras: Sri Ramakrishna Math.
Venkata Rāmaswami, Kavali. 1823. The Supta-Sati or Chundi-Pat: Being a Portion of the Marcundeya Purana. Calcutta: Columbian Press.
Pargiter, F. E. 1904. Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa. Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal.
Poley, Ludwig. 1831. Markandeyi Purani Sectio Edidit Latinam Interpretationem Annotationesque Adiecit Ludovicus Poley.Berolini: Impensis F. Duemmleri.
Shankaranarayanan, S. 1968. Glory of the Divine Mother: Devīmāhātmyam. Pondicherry: Dipti Publications; distributors: Ganesh, Madras.
Sinha, Purnendu Narayan. 1922. The Chandi or The Great Plan. Adyar, Madras.
Varenne, Jean. 1975. Célébration de la Grande Déese: Devī-Māhātmya. Paris: Les Belles Lettres.
Wortham, B. Hale. 1885. “Translation of Books 81-93 of the Mârkaṇḍeya Purâṇa.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 17 (2): 221–74.
Critical Editions
Wadekar, M. L., ed. Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa. 2 vols. Baroda: Oriental Institute, 2011.
Śarma, Harikṛṣṇa, ed. Durgāsaptaśatī saptaṭīkāsaṃvalitā. [The Durgā-Saptaśati with seven commentaries].. Bombay: Veṅkaṭeśvara Press, 1916. Reprint, Delhi and Baroda: Butala and Company, 1984.
Singh, Satyavrat, ed. Śrīdurgāsaptaśatī: With Hindi Commentary. Naimisharanya, Sitapur: Institute for Pauranic and Vedic Studies and Research, 1983.
General Studies
Balkaran, Raj. 2015. “Mother of Power, Mother of Kings: Reading Royal Ideology in the Devī Māhātmya.” Ph.D. Thesis, Calgary: University of Calgary.
Balkaran, Raj. 2018a. “The Safeguard of Sovereignty: Focusing the Frame of the Devī Māhātmya.” In Purāṇa Studies: Select Papers from the 16th World Sanskrit Conference (Bangkok, 2015), edited by Raj Balkaran and Taylor McComas, 67–95. Delhi: DK Publishers.
Balkaran, Raj. 2019a. The Goddess and The King in Indian Myth: Ring Composition, Royal Power, and the Dharmic Double Helix. London: Routledge.
Balkaran, Raj. 2019b. “Visions and Revisions of the Hindu Goddess: Sound, Structure, and Artful Ambivalence in the Devī Māhātmya.” Edited by Patricia Dold. Religions, Special Volume: “On Violence: Voices and Visions from the Hindu Goddess Traditions,” 10 (5): 322.
Balkaran, Raj. 2020b. The Goddess and The Sun in Indian Myth: Power, Preservation and Mirrored Māhātmyas in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa. London: Routledge.
Coburn, Thomas B. 1980. The Conceptualization of Religious Change: And the Worship of the Great Goddess. Canton, N.Y.: St. Lawrence University.
Coburn, Thomas B. 1984. “Consort of None, Śakti of All: The Vision of the Devī-Māhātmya.” In The Divine Consort: Radha and the Goddesses of India, edited by John Stratton Hawley, 153–65. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.
Coburn, Thomas B. 1985. Devī Māhātmya: The Crystallization of the Goddess Tradition. Columbia, Mo.: South Asia Books.
Coburn, Thomas B. 1999. “The Threefold Vision of the Devī Māhātmya.” In The Great Goddess, edited by Dehejia, Vidya, 37–57. New York: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.
Kinsley, David R. 1978. “The Portrait of the Goddess in the Devī-Māhātmya.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion46 (4): 489–506.
Losty, Jeremiah. 2014. A Picture Book of the Devī Māhātmya. London: Simon Ray.
Marks, Kendra. 2012. “Goddesses, Monsters, and Monstrous Goddesses: The Portrayal of Kālī in the Devī Māhātmya.” Ottawa: Library and Archives Canada.
McLain, Karline. 2008. “Holy Superheroine: A Comic Book Interpretation of the Hindu Devī Māhātmya Scripture.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 71 (02): 297–322.
Simmons, Caleb. 2018. “Devīmāhātmya.” Hinduism and Tribal Religions. Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, edited by Jain P., Sherma R., Khanna M. Dordrecht: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1036-5_52-1
Söhnen-Thieme, Renate. 2002. “Goddess, Gods, Demons in the Devī Māhātmya.” In Stages and Transitions: Temporal and Historical Frameworks in Epic and Purāṇic Literature: Proceedings of the Second Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas, August 1999, edited by Brockington Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas Mary, Radoslav Katičić, and Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti. Zagreb: Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Tiwari, J. N. 1983. “An Interesting Variant in the Devī-Māhātmya.” Purāṇa 25 (2): 235–45.
Historical Studies
Lyons, Tryna. 1992. “The Simla ‘Devī Māhātmya’ Illustrations: A Reappraisal of Content.” Archives of Asian Art 45 (January): 29–41.
Mirashi, V. V. 1968. “A Lower Limit for the Date of the Devī-Māhātmya.” Purāṇa 10 (1): 179–86.
Sarkar, Bihani. 2017. Heroic Shāktism: The Cult of Durgā in Ancient Indian Kingship. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Sarkar, Bihani. 2018. “From Magic to Deity, Matter to Persona: The Exaltation of Māyā.” In The Oxford History of Hinduism: The Goddess, 39–61. New York: Oxford University Press.
Schulz, Siegfried A. 1982. “The Devī-Māhātmya in Greek: D. Galanos’ Translation.” Purana 24 (1): 7–40.
Yokochi, Yuko. 1988. “The Originality of Devīmāhātmya, Demonstrated in the Episode of the Appearence of Kausiki.” Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies 37 (2): 993–1001.
Yokochi, Yuko. 1999. “The Warrior Goddess in the Devīmāhātmya.” SENRI Ethnological Studies 50.
Yokochi, Yuko. 2005. “The Rise of the Warrior Goddess in Ancient India: A Study of the Myth Cycle of Kauśikī-Vindhyavāsinī in the Skandapurāṇa.” University of Groningen.
Ethnographic Studies
Humes, Cynthia Ann. 1997. “Glorifying the Great Goddess or Great Woman? Hindu Women’s Experience in Ritual Recitation of the Devī-Māhātmya.” In Women and Goddess Traditions: In Antiquity and Today, edited by Karen L King, 39–63. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.
Humes, Cynthia Ann. 1990. “The Text and Temple of the Great Goddess: The Devī-Māhātmya and the Vindhyacal Temple of Mirzapur. (Volumes I and II).” Ph.D., United States — Iowa: The University of Iowa.
Humes, Cynthia Ann.2009. “The Power of Creation: Śakti, Women, and the Goddess.” In Breaking Boundaries with the Goddess: New Directions in the Study of Śāktism; Essays in Honour of Narendra Nath Bhattacharyya, edited by Rachel Fell McDermott and Cynthia Ann Humes, 297–358. New Delhi: Manohar.
Rodrigues, Hillary. 2003. Ritual Worship of the Great Goddess: The Liturgy of the Durgā Pūjā with Interpretations. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Feminist Studies
Coburn, Thomas B. 1980. “The Devī-Māhātmya as a Feminist Document.” Journal of Religious Studies 8 (2): 1–11.
Humes, Cynthia Ann. 2000. “Is the Devī Māhātmya a Feminist Scripture?” In Is the Goddess a Feminist? The Politics of South Asian Goddesses, edited by Alf Hiltebeitel and Kathleen M Erndl, 123–50. New York: New York University Press.
Festival / Ritual Studies
Balkaran, Raj. 2018b. “The Splendor of the Sun: Brightening the Bridge between Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa and Devī Māhātmya in Light of Navarātri Ritual Timing.” In Nine Nights of the Goddess: The Navarātri Festival in South Asia, edited by Caleb Simmons, Hillary Rodrigues, and Moumita Sen, 23–38. Albany: SUNY Press.
Rodrigues, Hillary. 2003. Ritual Worship of the Great Goddess: The Liturgy of the Durgā Pūjā with Interpretations. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Bihani: Anthropological study of an ancestral household autumnal ritual as performed in the Bengali Brahmin Lahiri home of Benaras.
Saraswati, Swami Satyananda. 1998. Chaṇḍī Pāṭh: She Who Tears Apart Thought. Delhi: Devi Mandir Publications : Motilal Banarsidass.
Sarkar, Bihani. 2017. “Navarātra: The Festival of the Nine Nights.” In Heroic Shāktism: The Cult of Durgā in Ancient Indian Kingship, 210–71. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Simmons, Caleb, Moumita Sen, and Hillary Rodrigues, eds. 2018. Nine Nights of the Goddess: The Navarātri Festival in South Asia. SUNY Series in Hindu Studies. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Comics
Pai, Anant. 1978. “Tales of Durga Mythology.” Amar Chitra Katha, 1978.
Purāṇic Context
Balkaran, Raj. 2018. “The Splendor of the Sun: Brightening the Bridge between Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa and Devī Māhātmya in Light of Navarātri Ritual Timing.” In Nine Nights of the Goddess: The Navarātri Festival in South Asia, edited by Caleb Simmons, Hillary Rodrigues, and Moumita Sen, 23–38. Albany: SUNY Press.
Balkaran, Raj. 2020. “The Story of Saṃjñā, Mother of Manu: Shadow and Light in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa.” In The Bloomsbury Research Handbook on Indian Philosophy and Gender, edited by Veena R Howard, 267–96. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Brown, Cheever Mackenzie. 1974. God as Mother: A Feminine Theology in India: An Historical and Theological Study of the Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa. Hartford, Vt.: Claude Stark & Co.
Brown, Cheever Mackenzie. 1990. The Triumph of the Goddess the Canonical Models and Theological Visions of the Devī-Bhāgavata Purāṇa. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Cecil, Elizabeth Ann. 2008. A New Approach to the Devīmāhātmya: The Greatness of the Goddess in Its Purāṇic Context. Thesis MA–University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Hazra, R. C. 1963. Studies in the Upapurāṇas Vol. 2 (Śākta and Non-Sectarian Upapurāṇas). Calcutta: Sanskrit College. pp. 1-44.
Hazra, R. C. 1975. Studies in the Purāṇic Records on Hindu Rites and Customs. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.
Pargiter, F. E. 1904. Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa. Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal.
Quackenbos, George Payn. 1917. The Sanskrit Poems of Mayūra. New York: Columbia University Press.
Rao, Velcheru Narayana. 2004. “Purāṇa.” In The Hindu World, edited by Sushil Mittal and Gene R Thursby, 97–115. New York: Routledge.
Rocher, Ludo, Gonda, Jan. 1986. The Purāṇas. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.