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Virtual e-Text Archive of Indic Texts

Introduction

In the absence of a [Thesaurus Linguae Graecae] or [Perseus Project]-style [collection of texts] for Sanskrit or the other languages of classical Indian studies, this page will begin an attempt to bring together in one location links to machine-readable files of texts in Indic languages, wherever they may be.

The organizing principles of this page are still far from clear! One point does stand out, however. In the longer run, all the texts below need to be encoded according to the guidelines of the [Text Encoding Intitiative]. See Peter Schreiner's encoding of the [Buddhacarita] for an important experimental example of applying the TEI guidelines to a Sanskrit text.

If you have a classical Indian text to contribute, or if you know of WWW links to texts which are not shown here, I would be grateful if you would [send me a note] with the information. Thank you.

A discussion of copyright in the INDOLOGY forum during late 1996 raised some interesting issues with regard to rights and privileges in the use of electronic texts. One of our members, Dr. Fco. Javier Martinez Garcia, kindly drew attention to the following two WEB sites, to which you are recommended for more information about copyright issues.

See also

  • [Copyright FAQ] prepared by the UK Arts and Humanities Data Service and the Technical Advisory Service for Images.

  • [Project Looking Forward, Final Report, Sketching the Future of Copyright in a Networked World] by College of William and Mary Law Professor Trotter Hardy.

    The US Copyright Office has published "Project Looking Forward: Final Report, Sketching the Future of Copyright in a Networked World" by College of William and Mary Law Professor Trotter Hardy, who conducted the project on contract with the Copyright Office during the latter half of 1996. It is available online (above link) and may be ordered in paper from the Government Printing Office for $23, stock number S/N 030-002-00191-8, from mid-August 1998.

e-Text repositories

Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit

  • [Gaudiya Grantha Mandira - A Sanskrit Text Repository]

    This repository of texts is an effort to collect, edit, and make available important and often rare Sanskrit and Bengali texts that belong to the Caitanya Vaisnava tradition. It is for the use of any and all scholars of Sanskrit, Bengali, and the Caitanya Vaisnava tradition. It will eventually contain carefully edited and proofread editions of the whole corpus of Caitanya Vaisnava texts and many other important Sanskrit texts from other traditions and fields of study. The entire Gaudiya Grantha Mandira corpus of texts will eventually be made available on CD for a nominal fee.

  • [E-texts from the IIT Kanpur]

    A remarkable collection, which can be viewed in a wide range of Indian scripts, or romanization, converted into PDF, and downloaded. Not only the Gita and commentaries, but the upanisads, the full works of Sankara, the Yogasutrabhasya, and more (go to "see also").

  • [Sanskrit Fonts and Sanskrit Texts]

    Presented by Ulrich Stiehl. [Rgveda], [Yajurveda], [Bhagavatapurana], [Bhagavadgita], [Nalopakhyana], and a [reverse Sanskrit dictionary]. Searchable PDF files, using the downloadable ``[URW Palladio S]'' font.

  • [E-texts from Somadeva Vasudeva]

    Includes the following texts:

    Ajadapramatrsiddhi of Utpaladeva; Anuttaraprakasapañcasika of Adyanatha; Isvarapratyabhijñavrtti of Utpaladeva; Ekadasamukhahrayam* (Satapitaka); Kalavilasa of Ksemendra; Kalividambana of Nilakantha Diksita; Kavyadarsa of Dandin (1--2); Kubjikamatatantra; Ksanabhangasiddhi-Vyatirekatmika of Ratnakirti; Gunabhara Inscription; Caurapañcasika of Bilhana; Tattvopaplavasimhah of Jayarasi (partial); Navasahasankacarita of Padmagupta; Prajñatara of Nalanda*, three folios written by; Padataditaka of Syamilaka; Bhallatasataka; Bhavopahara of Cakrapaninatha with the Vivarana of Bhatta Ramyadeva; Bhulunda, 2 Inscriptions; Bhojadevaprasastayah; Mahakaravirayaga patala 1* (NGMPP); Mahamayurividyarajñi*, fragment (Satapitaka); Malinivijayottaratantra; List of 64 Tirthas with Siddhalingas* see scans for images; Vakyapadiya of Bhartrhari (1--3.7); Vatulanathasutravrtti of Anantasaktipada; Vinasikhatantra; Saktanandavijñana of Somananda; Sabarabhasya (partial); Sivastrotravali of Utpaladeva; Siladitya II copperplate of Gupta sam. 362; Samvitsiddhi of Yamuna; Sahrdayalila of Ruyyaka; Siyaka II Harasola copperplate (vi. sam. 1005); Stavacintamani of Bhattanarayana;

  • [GRETIL - Goettingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages]

  • [INDOLOGY's own online texts]

    • Astavakragita

    • Bhagavadgita

    • Dandin's Dasakumaracarita (extracts)

    • Dhammapada

    • Mahabharata, Sabhaparvan (Van Nooten)

    • Mandukya Upanishad

    • Panini's Astadhyayi

    • Patanjali's Yogasutra

    • Prajnaparamitahrdayasutra

    • Rig Veda

    • Sankaracarya's Saundaryalahari

    • Tantrakhyayika

    • Vagbhata's Rasaratnasamuccaya (extracts)

    • Vatsyayana's Kamasutra

    • ... and several other texts.

    and contributed by the Kyoto scholars (originals at [http://www.cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~yanom/sanskrit/]):

    • Apastambadharmasutra

    • Baudhayanadharmasutra

    • Brhaspatismrti

    • Gautamadharmasutra

    • Katyayanasmrti

    • Kamasutra (19/9/1998)

    • Kautalyaarthasastra

    • Manusmrti

    • Naradasmrti

    • Parasarasmrti

    • Vaikhanasadharmasutra

    • Vasisthadharmasastra

    • Visnusmrti

    • Yajnavalkyasmrti

    • Varahamihira's Brhatsamhita

    • Asvaghosa's Buddhacarita

    and other texts.

  • [The text archive of the Department of Indology, University of Zürich]

    Includes the Brahmapurana transcription by Peter Schreiner and Renata Shnen-Thieme. As well as being an important research resource, this is a model of good practice in the creation of electronic texts.

  • [Sanskrit Texts by Vedic Engineering]

    A large collection (almost 30 megabytes) of Sanskrit texts in machine-readable form. Includes independent versions of the Rigveda, Mahabharata, and Ramayana, as well as puranas, medical texts, upanishads, darshana texts, etc.

  • [Sanskrit Texts and Stotras]

    Made available by Dale Steinhauser. PDF files of many stotras and related texts in Sanskrit, in Devanagari script.

    (Name, Sanskrit/English, number of verses)

    • The 40 Areas of Vedic Literature S-E 40

    • Saraswati Stotram from the Padma Purana S-E 4

    • Saraswati Stotram S 10

    • Mahalakshmi Stotram from the Padma Purana S-E 9

    • Mahalakshmi Verse (Bhagavata Purana 8:8:8) S-E 1

    • The 32 Names of Durga S-E 6

    • Lalita Stortam by Shankaracharya S-E 6

    • Ganesh Astava S-E 3

    • Shiva Manasa Puja S 5

    • The Shiva Sutras with Translation by Laksman Joo S-E 77

    • Trotaka's Hymn to his Master Shankaracharya S-E 8

    • Mahavakyas S-E 7

    • The Shantis for the 108 Upanishads S-E 5

    • Pingala Chandas (Chapters 1-4) S 140

    • Bhagavad Gita (18 Chapters) S 700

    • 1000 Names of Vishnu (Vishnu Sahasranam) S 142

    • Stotram to the 9 Planets (Navagraha) S-E 12

    • Stotram to Jupiter (Brihaspati, Guru) S 6

    • Stotram to Rahu S 6

    • Stotram to Saturn (Shani) S 11

    • Stotram to Venus (Shukra) S 7

    • Stotram to Mars (Mangala) S 7

  • [TITUS: Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialen]

    Notices of several projects and people involved in Indo-european studies, as well as lists of texts in Sanskrit and other languages which have been put into machine-readable format. Many Indic texts are publicly accessible for searching and analysis via the innovative [WordCruncher Server].

  • [Gandharva Nagaram]

    Rome University "La Sapienza" Sanskrit Text Archive. Includes:

    • Kshemaraja : Pratyabhijnahridaya

    • Abhinavagupta: Paramarthasara,

    • Abhinavagupta: Paryantapanchashika,

    • Abhinavagupta: Bodhapanchadashika

    • Abhinavagupta: Bhairava-stava

    • Abhinavagupta: Anuttarashtika

    • Abhinavagupta: Krama-stotra

    • Vijnanabhairava

    • Paratrimshika

    • Spanda-karika

  • [Dharmakirti's works, available on the website of Dr. Motoi Ono]

    • Pramanavarttika

    • Pramanavarttikasvavrtti

    • Pramanaviniscaya

    • Nyayabindu

    • Hetubindu

    • Vadanyaya

    • Sambandhaparikza

    • Samtanantarasiddhi

  • [Middle Indo-Aryan studies Home Page]

    Internet Home Page for Middle Indo-Aryan studies, by Yumi Ousaka and Moriichi Yamazaki. The site provides the following five important Jain texts:

    • Dasaveyaliya,

    • Isibhasiyaim,

    • Ayaranga,

    • Suyagada and

    • Uttarajjhaya.

    For each of these text, the site gives the plain texts, metrical analysis, pada and word indexes, reverse word index to the Vinaya, etc.

  • [The Vedic Experience] by Raimon Panikkar. Online version of the full text. Includes translation and commentary on many Vedic hymns.

  • [Vedavid: Research Resource and Internet experiment] by John Gardner.

    Provides hypertexts of the

    • Rig Veda and the

    • Satapatha Brahmana,

    with many further links, ideas, and possibilities.

  • [The Pali Canon Online, Sri Lanka Tripitaka Project]

  • [La Trobe University: The Pali Canon Online Database]

    This is a database version of the Pali Canon (in Pali) based on the digitised text prepared by the Sri Lanka Tripitaka Project. The advantage of using this version of the Pali canon is that it makes it easy to search for individual words across all 20,946 pages at once and view the contexts in which they appear.

  • [The Pali Publication Project] of the [Vipassana Research Institute], Igatpuri, Maharashtra. Includes a downloadable e-text of the

    • Dhammapada in Pali.

  • [Pali Canon] in English translation. Not complete, but still substantial.

  • [Kyoto archive]

    Machine-readable files - in Japan - of the texts mentioned above, as well as the:

    • Ramayana

    • Mahabharata

  • [John Smith's bombay.indology.info archive]

    • Ramayana

    • Mahabharata

    • Pabuji epic

  • [The Sanskrit Library]

    By Peter M. Scharf. Sanskrit texts presented with teaching aids.

  • [Muktabodha Indological Research Institute]

    The Muktabodha Indological Research Institute now has 29 searchable e-texts (14/7/2006). Some of these are editions prepared from manuscripts and are previously unpublished:

    • Devidvyardhasatika by Prabodhanatha a Kalikrama text edited by Mark S.G. Dyczkowski

    • Kalikulapancasatika (also called Devipancasatika) a Kalikrama text edited by Mark S.G. Dyczkowski

    • Kramasadbhava a Kalikrama text edited by Mark S.G. Dyczkowski

    • Kuloratnoddyota edited by Mark S.G. Dyczkowski

    • Mahanaya Prakasa by Arnasimha a Kalikrama text edited by Mark S.G. Dyczkowski

    • Spandakarika with Vrtti by Kallatabhatta Tippani and Vivrtti by Ramakantha edited by Mark S.G. Dyczkowski

    • Spandapradipika of Utpalabhagavata edited by Mark S.G. Dyczkowski

    • Srikhacakrapancakastotra by Jnananetranatha a Kalikrama text edited by Mark S.G. Dyczkowski

    • Cidgaganacandrika by Kalidasa

    • Isvarapratyabhijna Vimarsini by Abhinavagupta with the commentary Bhaskari by Bhaskara

    • Isvarapratyabhijna Vivrti Vimarsini by Abhinavagupta

    • Isvarasiddhi by Utpaladeva

    • Jnanakarika of the school of Matsyendranatha

    • Kamakalavilasa by Punyananda with the commentary cidvalli by Natanananda

    • Kaulajnananirnaya of the school of Matsyendranatha

    • Kularnava Tantra

    • Mrgendra Tantra

    • Netra Tantra with the commentary of Kshemaraja

    • Paramarthasara of Abhinavagupta with the commentary of Yogaraja

    • Parapravesika by Ksemaraja

    • Rudrayamala Tantra Uttara Khanda

    • Sambandhasiddhi by Utpaladeva

    • Sambapancasika with the commentary by Ksemaraja

    • Saradatilaka

    • Sataratnasamgraha

    • Sivadrsti of Somananda

    • Sivasutravarttikam of Bhaskara

    • Stavacintamani of Bhattanarayana with the commentary of Ksemaraja

    • Svacchanda Tantra the commentary of Kshemaraja

    • Tantraloka with the commentary of Jayaratha

  • [The Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon]

    In 2003, the University of the West, Los Angeles, under the generous sponsorship of Most Venerable Master Hsing Yun and guided by the initiative of Prof. Lewis Lancaster, began the Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Project (SBCP). The initial grant, covering the input of 50 Mahayana sutras, was completed in 2004.

    Our second phase, in 2005, covers the input of about 100 Shastra titles. The input of Shastras comprising the works of Acarya Nagarjuna, Arya Deva, Asanga, and Vasubandhu has already commenced, and will be completed by the end of 2006-7.

  • [Electronic Resources for Hindi and Other South Asian Languages: Department of Hindi, Osaka University of Foreign Studies]

    Electronic Texts - Medieval Hindi:

    • Tulsidas's Dohavali, prepared by Hiroko Nagasaki

    • Tulsidas's Kavitavali, prepared by Hiroko Nagasaki

    • Tulsidas's Gitavali, prepared by Hiroko Nagasaki

    • Tulsidas's Vinaya-Patrika, prepared by Hiroko Nagasaki

    • Tulsidas's Ramcaritmanas, prepared by Hiroko Nagasaki

    • Jaysi's Padmavat, prepared by Hiroko Nagasaki

    • Kutuban (Qutban)'s Miragavati (Mrigavati), prepared by Arlo Griffiths, Joris ter Linden, and Dick Plukker

    Electronic Texts - Sanskrit:

    • Kausika Sutra by Arlo Griffiths

    • Patanjali's Vyakarana-Mahabhasya by George Cardona

    • The Rg-Veda Padapatha by George Cardona

    Audio Archive - Sanskrit:

    • Recitation of the Satapatha-Brahmana in the Kanva recension, recorded by George Cardona

    • ...

Other e-text projects and repositories

  • [Sanskrit Documents List]

    A collection of Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, and other Indic texts in transliteration and also as PostScript files displaying Devanagari font (best with GhostView). Includes several stotras, upanisads, Brahmasutra extracts, subhasitas, etc.

  • [The Stotra Page] by Shrisha Rao.

    Includes bitmap images of several Dvaita stotras, some transliterations, and some audio files.

  • [The Rigveda: Metrically Restored Text (Karen Thomson and Jonathan Slocum)]

    This online text of the Rigveda derives from the highly important Rig Veda: a Metrically Restored Text, by Barend A. van Nooten and Gary B. Holland, published in 1994 by Harvard University Press; van Nooten and Holland's edition, as the first attempt to present the poems in their entirety in the poetic form in which they were composed, constituted a watershed in Rigvedic scholarship, but it has been out of print for several years.

Individual texts presented by scholars

Tamil

  • [Tamil Heritage Foundation]

    Also associated with and an [email group (e-suvadi)] that acts like a bulletin board.

  • [The Electronic Tamil Library]

    The Tamil Electronic Library offers information on the a wide miscellany of topics, from texts on history, through language, numerals, babys' names, magazine titles, to free software.

  • [Project Madurai]

    Early this year a group of Tamil volunteers coming from four corners of the world joined together to launch an open, world-wide initiative called Project Madurai. This project is devoted to preparing electronic texts of Tamil literary works, and archiving them in public-access websites and distributing them free on the internet. The Project Madurai web site gives information on e-texts already released (such as the thirukkuRaL of thiruvaLLuvar), e-texts in preparation, target works, volunteers involved, etc.

Tibetan

Electronic Books and Journals



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