The Word of Lalla is so far the best book about the poetry and philosophy of Lal Dyad; besides giving beautiful poetic equivalents of Lal Dyad’s cryptic verses, it contains a detailed and comprehensive account of the intellectual background of the great poetess. A comparative study of Kashmir Shaivism and Muslim mysticism makes many of the esoteric verses of Lalla intelligible for a modern reader of the vaakhs. Temple felt that the translation done by Sir George Grierson and Dr. Barnette was too scholarly for an ordinary English reader to appreciate.