Arsha Drishti Virtual Library

The Arsha Drishti Virtual Library is a modest initiative to aggregate and make easily available public-domain texts pertaining to Advaita Vedanta, Sanskrit and related disciplines drawing from a variety of sources.  Although initiative is a work in progress, there are currently over 10,000 documents available.  Primary Vedānta-prasthāna-traya, Sanātana-dharma and Sanskrit texts have been posted as well as grammar texts and dictionaries.  Better curation is pending.

Vedānta and Sanskrit Texts

* =  Primary Vedānta Texts

शब्दकोशः Dictionaries

व्याकरणम्  – Grammar texts

  • Public domain primers, पाणिनि’s अष्टाध्यायी, and miscellaneous reference materials.

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Naming Conventions

Many texts (but not all yet) are tagged to quickly identify the type of content according to the following:

  • *: Asterisked texts are the best first-looks
  • skt / dvng: Sanskrit language in Devanagari script
  • xlit: Sanskrit language transliterated into Roman (English) script
  • xlat: Translated into English language
  • eng: English prose
  • svr: Chanting tones indicated
  • wfw: word-for-word gloss
  • BW / Color: Black and white / color (sometimes one is easier to read than the other)
  • 2-up / 3-up:  2 column / 3 column format

Document Formats

Most texts are in .pdf format, some are in .rtf, .doc, or .txt.  A number of larger texts are in .djvu format which is a lighter weight format than .pdf that makes scrolling through the larger texts such as dictionaries much more pleasant. Download .djvu readers here.

Updates

Content will be updated periodically.  We intend to post no copyrighted material. If you would like to get update notifications follow Arsha-Drishti on Twitter or Facebook or sign up for the newsletter.

Please contact swamiji@arshadrishti.org if have trouble accessing the library, or would like to contribute.

History

  • v 0.4 Nov 6, 2019 Added grammar texts
  • v 0.3.1 May 21, 2019 Fixed broken links
  • v 0.3 Sep 2 2014
    • Added English & links directly into library
    • Added शब्दकोशाः – Dictionaries
  • v 0.2 May 14 2014 Initial Web release – Vedanta texts
  • v 0.1 Oct 16 2013 Initial preliminary (disk) release

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