Internet Resources

Internet Resources -- A collection of excellent sites relevant to Hinduism and the culture of India

Advaita Vedanta

http://www.advaita-vedanta.org/series/
http://www.advaita.org.uk/reading/free_scriptures.htm

Ramakrishna, K, An Introduction to Advaita Vedanta
http://www.advaita-vedanta.org/kramakrishna/index.html

http://advaitaphilosophy.blogspot.com/search/label/Advaita%20Texts

http://advaitaphilosophy.blogspot.com/search/label/advaita

Ramana Maharishi

Ramana Maharishi, Self-Enquiry
http://www.realization.org/page/namedoc0/self/self_0.htm

Shankaracharya
http://www.advaita-vedanta.org/texts/index.html
Advaitasiddhi:
http://www.advaitasiddhi.org/

text of Saundarya Lahari, Atma Bodhi:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/6508766/Saundarya-Lahari-of-Adi-Shankaracharya

http://advaitaphilosophy.blogspot.com/search/label/Bhagavad%20Gita%20Bhashya%20of%20Sri%20Adi%20Shankaracharya

Artwork (beautiful pictures of deities to copy and enjoy)
http://www.vishvarupa.com/
http://www.exoticindia.com

http://www.religiousinfo.org/inner.asp?menu=photos

Ashtavakra Gita

http://home.earthlink.net/~xristos/ashtavakra.htm (excerpts)

http://www.realization.org/page/doc0/doc0004.htm

Bhagavad Gita
http://www.gitapress.org/Download_Eng_pdf.htm

http://www.bhagavad-gita.org/

http://www.bhagavad-gita.us/

http://www.blessingsonthenet.com/geeta/home.asp

http://www.archive.org/details/bhagawatgitaachy018535mbp (in Telugu)

http://www.religiousbook.net/Books/Online_books/Bg/gita_1.html

Arnold, Edward. Song Celestial

http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Bhagavad-Gita1.html
http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/indian/gita/index.html

http://www.bharatadesam.com/spiritual/story_of_sri_krishna/Stories_of_Lord_Krishna.php

His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Bhagavad Gita As It Is

http://www.asitis.com/

Vyasadeva, translated by Anand Aadhar Prabhu, Song of Fortune (classic version)
http://www.srimadbhagavatam.org/gita/edition2/download.html

Godcollect, translated by Foundationbliss, Song of Fortune (a modern version)

http://theorderoftime.org/personal/song/index.html
http://www.srimadbhagavatam.org/

http://www.chinmayasaaket.org/resources/stotras/

http://www.krishna.com/en/taxonomy/term/58

Hindu Scriptures Hymns From The Rigveda Five Upanishads The Bhagavadgita (1963), Nicol. Macnicol,Everyman's Library

http://www.archive.org/details/hinduscripturesh027561mbp

http://www.universalshaivafellowship.org/usf/bgvdgita01.html

Bhajans, Chalisas, Mantras, Stuti, Stotrams, Ashtakams, Slokams, Devotional Music (Prayers, Hymns)
http://www.chennaionline.com/festivalsnreligion/slogams//

http://www.devotionalsongs.com
http://www.stutimandal.com/

http://www.geocities.com/ramya475/GeneralIndex.htm
http://www.geocities.com/ramya475/addst.htm
http://www.sthothrarathnas.com/

http://www.chinmayasaaket.org/resources/stotras/

http://www.gitapress.com/Download_Hin_pdf.htm

Download Bhajans, Chalisas, Mantras, Stuti, Stotrams, Ashtakams, Slokams, Devotional Music (Prayers, Hymns)
http://www.religiousinfo.org/inner.asp?menu=audiosection

Children's
http://members.tripod.com/~srinivasp/mythology/stories.htm
http://www.4to40.com
http://www.dadazi.net/Home/dddd.html
Panchatantra Tales http://panchatantra.org/

http://www.indiaparenting.com/stories/krishna/index.shtml
http://rajathathacorner.awardspace.com/

http://www.chinmayasaaket.org/balavihar/balazine/index.php

http://www.bharatadesam.com/

Dvaita

Hindusim
http://www.webonautics.com/mythology/
All-World Gayatri Pariwar (books and articles in Hindi)
http://www.awgp.org/gamma/LiteratureHindi

Shirdi Sai Baba

Shri Sai Satcharitra
http://www.saibaba.org/saisatc.html

http://www.osaibaba.com/downloads.htm

Gujarata And Its Literature (1935), Kanaiyalal M. Munshi

http://www.archive.org/details/GujarataAndItsLiteraure

Development of Hinduism, Prof.M.M.Ninan

http://www.archive.org/details/DevelopmentOfHinduism

Kalidasa

Language

Butt, Miriam, Tracy Holloway King & Gillian Ramchand editors, Theoretical perspectives on word order in South Asian languages
http://standish.stanford.edu/bin/detail?fileID=1816394352

Dimock, Edward. A Bengali prose reader for second-year students [Chicago]: University of Chicago 1988
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/digbooks/dig_toc.html?BOOKID=PK1664.D6_1988

Dimock, Edward C. Introduction to Bengali : a basic course in spoken Bengali, with emphasis upon speaking and understanding the language Honolulu: East-West Center Press 1964
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/digbooks/dig_toc.html?BOOKID=PK1663.D6_1976

Hill, Edward C. A primer in Telugu characters New Delhi: Manohar Publications 1991.
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/digbooks/dig_toc.html?BOOKID=PL4772.H550_1991

Naim, C.M. Introductory Urdu (Volumes One and Two) [Chicago]: South Asia Language & Area Center, University of Chicago 1999.
Volume 1 http://dsal.uchicago.edu/digbooks/dig_toc.html?BOOKID=PK1983.N2_1999_V1
Volume 2 http://dsal.uchicago.edu/digbooks/dig_toc.html?BOOKID=PK1983.N2_1999_V2

Naim, C. M. ed. Readings in Urdu: prose and poetry Honolulu: East-West Center Press [1965
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/digbooks/dig_toc.html?BOOKID=PK1975.N18

Omniglot writing systems & languages of the world
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/

Ramaswamy, Sumathi. Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997.
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5199n9v7/

Reddy, Golla Narayanaswami and Dan M Matson. Glossary for graded readings in modern literary Telugu Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin 1967
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/digbooks/dig_toc.html?BOOKID=PL4775.R412

Reddy, Golla Narayanaswami and Dan M Matson. Graded readings in modern literary Telugu Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin 1967
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/digbooks/dig_toc.html?BOOKID=PL4775.R4_1967

Venugopalan, K. A primer in Grantha characters St. Peter, Minn: James H. Nye 1983
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/digbooks/dig_toc.html?BOOKID=PK419.V468_1983

Telugu Literature (Ramayanam, Mahabharata, Telugu Novels & stories and moral stories)

http://www.bharatadesam.com/

Sanskrit Grammar: Including Both the Classical Language, and the Older Dialects, of Veda and ... (1879) William Dwight Whitney, Brietkopf and Härtel

http://www.archive.org/details/asanskritgramma00whitgoog

http://www.archive.org/details/asanskritgramma01whitgoog

Mahabharata
Arnold, Edwin, translator. Indian Idylls, from the Sanskrit of the Mahabharata (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1907)
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/ii.htm

http://www.bharatadesam.com/spiritual/story_of_sri_krishna/Stories_of_Lord_Krishna.php

Meditation

Meditation Station

http://www.meditationsociety.com/

Miscellaneous

http://rare-e-books.blogspot.com/2008/07/telugu-panchangam-2008-2009.html

assorted full text in Telugu

Patanjali (Yoga Sutras)

http://home.earthlink.net/~xristos/patanjali.htm

http://theorderoftime.com/personal/yogathread.html

Puranas

http://www.bharatadesam.com/spiritual/story_of_sri_krishna/Stories_of_Lord_Krishna.php

Ramayana
Indonesian Ramayana

http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Indonesian/ramayana/ramafs.htm

Lutgendorf, Philip. Life of a Text: Performing the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft796nb4pk/

Richman, Paula, editor. Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1991.
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3j49n8h7/

Tulasidasa. Sri Ramacharitamanasa, or, The Manasa lake Brimming Over with the Exploits of Sri Rama: With Hindi text and English translation
http://www.gitapress.org/Download_Eng_pdf.htm

Valmiki, trans. by Ralph T. H. Griffith. Ramayan of Valmiki, Translated into English Verse
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/rama/index.htm

http://www.valmikiramayan.net/

http://www.chinmayasaaket.org/resources/stotras/

http://www.gitapress.org/Download_Eng_pdf.htm

Shaivism

Shiva Sutras (excerpts)

http://home.earthlink.net/~xristos/sivasutras.htm

http://www.universalshaivafellowship.org/usf/teachings_02.html

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra (selections from)

http://home.earthlink.net/~xristos/vigyan.htm

Nayannars

http://www.geocities.com/nayanmars/Documents.html

Sacred Kural; or, The Tamil Veda of Tiruvalluvar; (1931) Popley, Herbert A., Calcutta, Association Press.

http://www.archive.org/details/sacredkuralortam00tiruuoft

Swacchanda-tantra, with commentary by Kshemaraja. Edited with notes by Pandit Madhusudan Kaul Shastri (1921), Ksemaraja, Rajanaka, 11th century; Shastri, Madhusudan Kaul, Bombay Printed at the 'Nirnaya-sagar' press.

http://www.archive.org/details/swacchandatantra01ksemuoft

Full text of the book Kashmir Shaivism in pdf or html

ikashmir.net/publications/doc/shaivism.pdf

full text of Lakshman Joo's The Secret Supreme

http://www.universalshaivafellowship.org/usf/teachings_01.html

Tagore, Rabindranath
Kabir, trans. by Rabindranath Tagore. Songs of Kabir (New York: Macmillan, 1915)
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sok/index.htm
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=6519

http://www.bharatadesam.com/

Tantra

Mahanirvanatantram, Arthur Avalon

http://www.archive.org/details/mahanirvanatantram

Upanishads
http://www.geocities.com/advaitavedant/
http://www.sthothrarathnas.com/upanishads
http://www.hinduwiki.com/index.php?title=Upanishads

Literary Works of Sanderson Beck
http://san.beck.org/EC7-Vedas.html

Aitar, Brihad, Isha, Kasha, Kena, Mandu, Mundaka, Shwe Upanishads
http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/indian/upanishads/index.html

Katha Upanishad, Isa Upanishad, Kena Upanishad, Mundaka Upanishad, Svestasvara Upanishad, Prasna Upanishad, Mandukya Upanishad, Airareya Upanishad, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, Taittitiya Upanishad, Chhanogya Upanishad
http://www.naiveinspirations.com/

Iso Upanishhad

http://home.earthlink.net/~xristos/isopanisad.htm

http://www.krishna.com/en/taxonomy/term/58

http://www.archive.org/details/unpublishedupani015935mbp (in Sanskrit)

Thirteen Principal Upanishads, by Robert Ernest Hume, Oxford University Press

http://www.archive.org/details/thirteenprincipa028442mbp

Katha and Prasna Upanishads, by Sitarama, Sastri S.

http://www.archive.org/details/kathaandprasnaup029591mbp

Hindu Scriptures Hymns From The Rigveda Five Upanishads The Bhagavadgita (1963), Nicol. Macnicol,Everyman's Library

http://www.archive.org/details/hinduscripturesh027561mbp

Philosophy of the Upanishads and Ancient Indian Metaphysics, Edward Gough, Cosmo Publications.

http://www.archive.org/details/philosophyoftheu004284mbp

Religion And Philosophy Of The Veda And Upanishads, Berriedale Keith Arthur. Harvard University Press.

http://www.archive.org/details/religionandphilo030909mbp

Upanishads Gita And Bible A Comparative Study Of Hindu And Christian Scriptures, Geoferey Parrinder, Association Press.

http://www.archive.org/details/upanishadsgitaan012849mbp

Religion And Philosophy Of The Veda And Upanishads Vol 31, Berriedale Keith Arthur. Harvard University Press.

http://www.archive.org/details/religionandphilo030957mbp

Religion And Philosophy Of The Veda And Upanishads Vol 32, Berriedale Keith Arthur. Harvard University Press.

http://www.archive.org/details/religionandphilo030958mbp

Mandukya Upanished (1921), V.G. Apte, Anandasharma Mudranalaya, Sanskrit.

http://www.archive.org/details/mandukyaupanishe015008mbp

Viswa Manassu - Esa - Keena Upanishadalu (1995), Saicharan Bhushan, Dwarakamai, Venkatagiri, Telugu.

http://www.archive.org/details/viswamanassuesak015981mbp

DASOPANISHEDS VOL-1 (1935), C.KUNHAM RAJA, THE ADYAR LIBRARY( THE OSOPHICAL SOCIETY), MADRAS, Sanskrit

http://www.archive.org/details/dasopanishedsvol014690mbp

Chandogyopanishad - Bhashya (1952), Chandogyopanishad - Bhashya (1952

http://www.archive.org/details/ChandogyopanishadBhashya

Brihadaranyakopanishad - Bhashya (1954), Chandogyopanishad - Bhashya (1952

http://www.archive.org/details/brihadaranyakopa014613mbp

Vaishnava
Hollings, William Charles, translator. Prem Sagur Translated into English, by Lallu Lal
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/psa/

http://www.krishna.com/en/taxonomy/term/58

Vedas

Griffith, Ralph T. H. , translator, Rig Veda
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/index.htm
http://www.hinduwebsite.com/sacredscripts/rigintro.asp

Griffith, Ralph T. H. , translator, Hymns of the Samaveda
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sv.htm
http://www.hinduwebsite.com/sacredscripts/samaveda.asp

Keith,Veda of the Arthur Berriedale, trans. Black Yajus School, Entitled Taittiriya Sanhita
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/yv/index.htm

http://www.bharatadesam.com/spiritual/story_of_sri_krishna/Stories_of_Lord_Krishna.php

Hindu Scriptures Hymns From The Rigveda Five Upanishads The Bhagavadgita (1963), Nicol. Macnicol,Everyman's Library

http://www.archive.org/details/hinduscripturesh027561mbp

Rig Veda And Vedic Religion (1913), Clayton, A. C., Christian Literature Society For India

http://www.archive.org/details/rigvedaandvedicr031644mbp

Magazines
Annual of Urdu Studies http://www.urdustudies.com/

Newspapers

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