The Sword and the Flute--Kali and Krsna: Dark Visions of the Terrible and the Sublime in Hindu Mythology (Hermeneutics: Studies in the History of Religions)
"In glimpsing Kali's sword and hearing Krsna's flute, Kinsley has superbly presented these deities as human experience, and his book will likely be more useful to undergraduates in discerning the meaning of Hindu spirituality in the face of its polytheism than many more erudite treatments. . . . A very readable book backed by sound scholarship."--"Choice