Description: The Bhagavadgt[; With the Sanatsug[tya and the Anugt
Description: This is a version of the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit. Currently we are presenting this in Romanization. Devanagari will be added in the near future
Description: This the Sanskrit text of the Mahabharata in Sanskrit. This is derived from electronic files created by Prof. Muneo Tokunaga of Kyoto and edited by John D. Smith. Their data was used to generate parallel Devanagari and Romanization, using cus
Description: The Anusasana Parva, like the Santi Parva before it, is a long hiatus in the narrative of the Mahabharata. Set on the deathbed of Bhishma, the Anusasana Parva is a huge treasure-trove of Brahmanic lore which is obviously a later interpolation
Description: A Vedic Reader By Arthur Anthony Macdonell Containing Thirty Hymns Of The Rigveda In The Original Samhita And Pada Texts. About the Author: Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1854 - 1930), 7th of Lochgarry, was a noted Sanskrit scholar. Macdonell was born in India and educated at Gottingen University, then matriculated in 1876 at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, gaining a classical exhibition and three scholarships (for German, Sanskrit, and Chinese). He graduated...
Description: This is a translation of an abridged version of the Garuda Purana. The Garuda Purana is one of the Vishnu Puranas. It is in the form of a dialog between Vishnu and Garuda, the King of Birds. The second section of this Purana (given here) deal
Description: Swami Abhedananda (1866-1939) was a disciple of Ramakrishna Paramahansa. He was one of the firsts to spread the message of Vedanta Philosophy into the western world. “How to Be a Yogi” is one of the most influential spiritual books of all ti
Description: The poet Kabór is one of the most interesting personalities in the history of Indian mysticism. A great religious reformer, the founder of a sect to which nearly a million northern Hindus still belong, it is yet supremely as a mystical poet t
Supplemental catalog subcollection information: American Libraries Collection; Historical Literature; Reprint. Originally published: AES, 1891; Includes bibliographical references
Description: This is a version of the Ramayana in Sanskrit derived from files created by Prof. Muneo Tokunaga of Kyoto and edited by John D. Smith. This has parallel Devanagari and Romanization. We have not attempted to cross-reference this yet with the G
Description: There are four Vedas, the Rig Veda, Sama Veda, Yajur Veda and Atharva Veda. The Vedas are the primary texts of Hinduism. They also had a vast influence on Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism. Traditionally the text of the Vedas was coeval with the
Description: This is a blank-verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) retelling of a popular story from the Mahabharata, the tale of Ruru and Priyumvada. The hero, Ruru, quests into the afterlife to beg for the resurrection of his beloved bride, Priyumvada, kil
Description: This is an early 20th century translation of the Bhagavad Gita into readable modern English prose. Because it is a fairly close translation, the line numbering will correspond closely to the Sanskrit text. The original book includes the Sansk
Description: The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. It is an epic narrative of the Kurukshetra War and the fates of the Kauravas and the Pandava princes as well as containing philosophical and devotional material, such as
Description: This, the 42nd volume of the the Sacred Books of the East, is an anthology of representative hymns from the Arthrva-veda, the fourth Veda. This selection is grouped thematically, so the hymns are not in numeric order.
Description: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We h
Description: This is part III of the Sacred Books of the East Satapatha Brahamana translation, containing Books V, VI and VII. This portion is notable for the description of the extended Vedic creation myth. This includes a mention of a 'cosmic egg,' a ke
Description: Ramakrishna (1833-86), was a Bengali Hindu sage. Although theoretically a high-caste Brahamin by birth, he came from a poor, low-caste village and had little or no education. He did not know a word of Sanskrit and his knowledge of the Vedas