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By John Burrows India, according to Dr.V. Raghavan, retired head of the Sanskrit department of India's prestigious University of Madras, was alone in playing host to extraterrestrials in prehistory. Raghavan contends that centuries-old documents in Sanskrit (the classical language of India and Hinduism) prove that aliens from outer space visited his nation. 'Fifty years of researching this ancient works convinces me that there are livings beings on other planets, and that they visited earth as far back as4,000 B.C.' , the scholar says.
The Upanishads (plural: Sanskrit: ) are a collection of texts in the Vedic Sanskrit language which contain the earliest emergence of some of the Upanishads - Ancient History Encyclopedia The Upanishads are a collection of texts of religious and philosophical nature, written in India probably between c. 800 BCE and c. 500 BCE, during a time when.
'There is a just a mass of fascinating information about flying machines, even fantastic science fiction weapons, that can be found in translations of the Vedas (scriptures), Indian epics, and other ancient Sanskrit text'. In the Mahabharata (writings), there is notion of divine lighting and ray weapons, even a kind of hypnotic weapon. And in the Ramayana (writings), there is a description of Vimanas, or flying machines, that navigated at great heights with the aid of quicksilver and a great propulsive wind. 'These were space vehicles similar to the so-called flying saucers reported throughout the world today. The Ramayana even describes a beautiful chariot which 'arrived shining, a wonderful divine car that sped through the air'. In another passage, there is mention of a chariot being seen 'sailing overhead like a moon' '.
The references in the Mahabharata are no less astounding: - At Rama`s behest, the magnificent chariot rose up to a mountain of cloud with a tremendous din. Another passage reads: Bhima flew with his Vimana on an enormous ray which was as brilliant as the sun and made a noise like the thunder of a storm. In the ancient Vymanka-Shastra (science of aeronautics), there is a description of a Vimana: 'An apparatus which can go by its own force, from one place to place or globe to globe'. Raghavan points out, 'The text's revelations become even more astounding. Thirty-one parts-of which the machine consists-are described, including a photographing mirror underneath.
The text also enumerates 16 kinds of metal that are needed to construct the flying vehicle: `Metals suitable, lighare 16 kinds`. But only three of them are known to us today. The rest remain untranslatable.'
- Another authority who agrees with Dr. Raghavan`s interpretations is Dr. Krishna Murty, professor of aeronautics at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. 'It is true,' Dr. Krishna Murty says, 'that the ancient Indian Vedas and other text refer to aeronautics, spaceships, flying machines, ancient astronauts. 'A study of the Sanskrit texts has convinced me that ancient India did know the secret of building flying machines-and that those machines were patterned after spaceships coming from other planets.'
The Vedic traditions of India tell us that we are now in the Fourth Age of mankind. The Vedas call them the 'The Golden Age', 'The Silver Age', and 'The Bronze Age' and we are now, according to their scriptures in the 'The Iron Age'.
As we approach the end of the 20th century both Native Americans, Mayans, and Incans, prophecies claim that we are coming to the end of an age. Sanskrit texts are filled with references to Gods who fought battles in the sky using Vimanas equipped with weapons as deadly as any we can deploy in these more enlightened times.
For example, there is a passage in the Ramayana which reads: The Puspaka car that resembles the Sun and belongs to my brother was brought by the powerful Ravan; that aerial and excellent car going everywhere at will. That car resembling a bright cloud in the sky. '. And the King Rama got in, and the excellent car at the command of the Raghira, rose up into the higher atmosphere.' In the Mahabharata, an ancient Indian poem of enormous length, we learn that an individual named Asura Maya had a Vimana measuring twelve cubits in circumference, with four strong wheels.
The poem is a veritable gold mine of information relating to conflicts between gods who settled their differences apparently using weapons as lethal as the ones we are capable of deploying. Apart from 'blazing missiles', the poem records the use of other deadly weapons. 'Indra's Dart' operated via a circular 'reflector'. When switched on, it produced a 'shaft of light' which, when focused on any target, immediately 'consumed it with its power'.
In one particular exchange, the hero, Krishna, is pursuing his enemy, Salva, in the sky, when Salva's Vimana, the Saubha is made invisible in some way. Undeterred, Krishna immediately fires off a special weapon: 'I quickly laid on an arrow, which killed by seeking out sound'. Many other terrible weapons are described, quite matter of fact, in the Mahabharata, but the most fearsome of all is the one used against the Vrishis. The narrative records: Gurkha flying in his swift and powerful Vimana hurled against the three cities of the Vrishis and Andhakas a single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and fire, as brilliant as ten thousands suns, rose in all its splendor.
It was the unknown weapon, the Iron Thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and Andhakas. It is important to note, that these kinds of records are not isolated. They can be cross-correlated with similar reports in other ancient civilizations. The after-affects of this Iron Thunderbolt have anonymously recognizable ring. Apparently, those killed by it were so burnt that their corpses were unidentifiable. The survivors fared little ether, as it caused their hair and nails to fall out.
Perhaps the most disturbing and challenging, information about these allegedly mythical Vimanas in the ancient records is that there are some matter-of-fact records, describing how to build one. In their way, the instructions are quite precise. In the Sanskrit Samaraanganasutraadhaara it is written: Strong and durable must the body of the Vimana be made, like a great flying bird of light material. Inside one must put the mercury engine with its iron heating apparatus underneath. By means of the power latent in the mercury which sets the driving whirlwind in motion, a man sitting inside may travel a great distance in the sky. The movements of the Vimana are such that it can vertically ascend, vertically descend, move slanting forwards and backwards.
With the help of the machines human beings can fly in the air and heavenly beings can come down to earth. The Hakatha (Laws of the Babylonians) states quite unambiguously: The privilege of operating a flying machine is great. The knowledge of flight is among the most ancient of our inheritances. A gift from 'those from upon high'. We received it from them as a means of saving many lives. More fantastic still is the information given in the ancient Chaldean work, The Sifrala, which contains over one hundred pages of technical details on building a flying machine. It contains words which translate as graphite rod, copper coils, crystal indicator, vibrating spheres, stable angles, etc.
('Ancient Indian Aircraft Technology' From The Anti-Gravity Handbook by D. Hatcher Childress). Many researchers into the UFO enigma tend to overlook a very important fact. While it assumed that most flying saucers are of alien, or perhaps Governmental Military origin, another possible origin of UFOs is ancient India. What we know about ancient Indian flying vehicles comes from ancient Indian sources; written texts that have come down to us through the centuries. There is no doubt that most of these texts are authentic; many are the well known ancient Indian Epics themselves, and there are literally hundreds of them.
Most of them have not even been translated into English yet from the old Sanskrit. The Indian Emperor Ashoka started a 'Secret Society of the Nine Unknown Men': great Indian scientists who were supposed to catalogue the many sciences.
Ashoka kept their work secret because he was afraid that the advanced science catalogued by these men, culled from ancient Indian sources, would be used for the evil purpose of war, which Ashoka was strongly against, having been converted to Buddhism after defeating a rival army in a bloody battle. The 'Nine Unknown Men' wrote a total of nine books, presumably one each. Book number was 'The Secrets of Gravitation!' This book, known to historians, but not actually seen by them dealt chiefly with 'gravity control.'
It is presumably still around somewhere, kept in a secret library in India, Tibet or else where (perhaps even in North America somewhere). One can certainly understand Ashoka's reasoning for wanting to keep such knowledge a secret, assuming it exists. Ashoka was also aware of devastating wars using such advanced vehicles and other 'futuristic weapons' that had destroyed the ancient Indian 'Rama Empire' several thousand years before. Only a few years ago, the Chinese discovered some Sanskrit documents in Lhasa, Tibet and sent them to the University of Chandrigarh to be translated. Ruth Reyna of the University said recently that the documents contain directions for building interstellar spaceships! Their method of propulsion, she said, was 'anti- gravitational' and was based upon a system analogous to that of 'laghima,' the unknown power of the ego existing in man's physiological makeup, 'a centrifugal force strong enough to counteract all gravitational pull.' According to Hindu Yogis, it is this 'laghima' which enables a person to levitate.
Reyna said that on board these machines, which were called 'Astras' by the text, the ancient Indians could have sent a detachment of men onto any planet, according to the document, which is thought to be thousands of years old. The manuscripts were also said to reveal the secret of 'antima', 'the cap of invisibility' and 'garima', 'how to become as heavy as a mountain of lead'. Naturally, Indian scientists did not take the texts very seriously, but then became more positive about the value of them when the Chinese announced that they were including certain parts of the data for study in their space program! This was one of the first instances of a government admitting to be researching anti-gravity. The manuscripts did not say definitely that interplanetary travel was ever made but did mention, of all things, a planned trip to the Moon, though it is not clear whether this trip was actually carried out. However, one of the great Indian epics, the Ramayana, does have a highly detailed story in it of a trip to the moon in a Vimana (or 'Astra'), and in fact details a battle on the moon with an 'Asvin' (or Atlantean) airship. This is but a small bit of recent evidence of anti-gravity and aerospace technology used by Indians. To really understand the technology, we must go much further back in time.
Flight Route of Rama (source: Vimana in Ancient India - By Dileep Kumar Kanjilal ). The so-called 'Rama Empire' of Northern India and Pakistan developed at least fifteen thousand years ago on the Indian subcontinent and was a nation of many large, sophisticated cities, many of which are still to be found in the deserts of Pakistan, northern, and western India. Rama existed, apparently, parallel to the Atlantean civilization in the mid- Atlantic Ocean, and was ruled by 'enlightened Priest-Kings' who governed the cities. The seven greatest capital cities of Rama were known in classical Hindu texts as The Seven Rishi Cities According to ancient Indian texts, the people had flying machines which were called 'Vimanas.' The ancient Indian epic describes a Vimana as a double deck, circular aircraft with portholes and a dome, much as we would imagine a flying saucer. It flew with the 'speed of the wind' and gave forth a 'melodious sound.' There were at least four different types of Vimanas; some saucer shaped, others like long cylinders ('cigar shaped airships'). The ancient Indian texts on Vimanas are so numerous, it would take volumes to relate what they had to say.
The ancient Indians, who manufactured these ships themselves, wrote entire flight manuals on the control of the various types of Vimanas, many of which are still in existence, and some have even been translated into English. The Samaraanganasutraadhaara is a scientific treatise dealing with every possible angle of air travel in a Vimana. There are 230 stanzas dealing with the construction, take-off, cruising for thousand of miles, normal and forced landings, and even possible collisions with birds.
In 1875, the Vaimanika Sastra, a fourth century B.C. Text written by Bharadwaj the Wise, using even older texts as his source, was rediscovered in a temple in India. It dealt with the operation of Vimanas and included information on the steering, precautions for long flights, protection of the airships from storms and lightning and how to switch the drive to 'solar energy' from a free energy source which sounds like 'anti-gravity.' The Vaimanika Sastra (or Vymaanika-Shaastra) has eight chapters with diagrams, describing three types of aircraft, including apparatuses that could neither catch on fire nor break. It also mentions 31 essential parts of these vehicles and 16 materials from which they are constructed, which absorb light and heat; for which reason they were considered suitable for the construction of Vimanas. This document has been translated into English and is available by writing the publisher: VYMAANIDASHAASTRA AERONAUTICS (by Maharishi Bharadwaaja, translated into English and edited, printed and published by Mr. R.Josyer, Mysore, India, 1979).
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Josyer is the director of the International Academy of Sanskrit Investigation, located in Mysore. There seems to be no doubt that Vimanas were powered by some sort of 'anti-gravity.' Vimanas took off vertically, and were capable of hovering in the sky, like a modern helicopter or dirigible. Bharadwaj the Wise refers to no less than seventy authorities and 10 experts of air travel in antiquity. These sources are now lost. Vimanas were kept in a Vimana Griha, a kind of hanger, and were sometimes said to be propelled by a yellowish-white liquid, and sometimes by some sort of mercury compound, though writers seem confused in this matter. It is most likely that the later writers on Vimanas, wrote as observers and from earlier texts, and were understandably confused on the principle of their propulsion.
The 'yellowish- white liquid' sounds suspiciously like gasoline, and perhaps Vimanas had a number of different propulsion sources, including combustion engines and even 'pulse-jet' engines. It is interesting to note, that the Nazis developed the first practical pulse-jet engines for their V-8 rocket 'buzz bombs.'
Hitler and the Nazi staff were exceptionally interested in ancient India and Tibet and sent expeditions to both these places yearly, starting in the 30's, in order to gather esoteric evidence that they did so, and perhaps it was from these people that the Nazis gained some of their scientific information! According to the, part of the Mahabharata, and the Ramayana, one Vimana described was shaped like a sphere and born along at great speed on a mighty wind generated by mercury. It moved like a UFO, going up, down, backwards and forwards as the pilot desired. In another Indian source, the Samar, Vimanas were 'iron machines, well-knit and smooth, with a charge of mercury that shot out of the back in the form of a roaring flame.' Another work called the Samaranganasutradhara describes how the vehicles were constructed. It is possible that mercury did have something to do with the propulsion, or more possibly, with the guidance system. Curiously, Soviet scientists have discovered what they call 'age old instruments used in navigating cosmic vehicles' in caves in Turkestan and the Gobi Desert. The 'devices' are hemispherical objects of glass or porcelain, ending in a cone with a drop of mercury inside.
It is evident that ancient Indians flew around in these vehicles, all over Asia, to Atlantis presumably; and even, apparently, to South America. Writing found at in Pakistan (presumed to be one of the 'Seven Rishi Cities of the Rama Empire') and still un deciphered, has also been found in one other place in the world:! Writing on Easter Island, called Rongo-Rongo writing, is also un deciphered, and is uncannily similar to the Mohenjodaro script. Was Easter Island an air base for the Rama Empire's Vimana route? In Tibet, no small distance, it speaks of the 'fiery chariot' thus: 'Bhima flew along in his car, resplendent as the sun and loud as thunder. The flying chariot shone like a flame in the night sky of summer. It swept by like a comet.
It was as if two suns were shining. Then the chariot rose up and all the heaven brightened'.
In the Mahavira of Bhavabhuti, a Jain text of the eighth century culled from older texts and traditions, we read: 'An aerial chariot, the Pushpaka, conveys many people to the capital of Ayodhya. The sky is full of stupendous flying-machines, dark as night, but picked out by lights with a yellowish glare.' The Vedas, ancient Hindu poems, thought to be the oldest of all the Indian texts, describe Vimanas of various shapes and sizes: the 'ahnihotravimana' with two engines, the 'elephant-vimana' with more engines, and other types named after the kingfisher, ibis and other animals.
Unfortunately, Vimanas, like most scientific discoveries, were ultimately used for war. Atlanteans used their flying machines, 'Vailixi,' a similar type of aircraft, to literally try and subjugate the world, it would seem, if Indian texts are to be believed. The Atlanteans, known as 'Asvins' in the Indian writings, were apparently even more advanced technologically than the Indians, and certainly of a more war-like temperament. Although no ancient texts on Atlantean Vailixi are known to exist, some information has come down through esoteric, 'occult' sources which describe their flying machines. Similar, if not identical to Vimanas, Vailixi were generally 'cigar shaped' and had the capability of maneuvering underwater as well as in the atmosphere or even outer space. Other vehicles, like Vimanas, were saucer shaped, and could apparently also be submerged. According to Eklal Kueshana, author of 'The Ultimate Frontier,' in an article he wrote in 1966: Vailixi were first developed in Atlantis 20,000 years ago, and the most common ones are 'saucer shaped of generally trapezoidal cross- section with three hemispherical engine pods on the underside.
They use a mechanical antigravity device driven by engines developing approximately 80,000 horse power. The Ramayana, Mahabharata and other texts speak of the hideous war that took place, some ten or twelve thousand years ago between Atlantis and Rama using weapons of destruction that could not be imagined by readers until the second half of this century. The ancient Mahabharata, one of the sources on Vimanas, goes on to tell the awesome destructiveness of the war: '.(the weapon was) a single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and flame as bright as the thousand suns rose in all its splendor. An iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death, which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas. The corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable. The hair and nails fell out; pottery broke without apparent cause, and the birds turned white.
After a few hours all foodstuffs were infected. To escape from this fire, the soldiers threw themselves in streams to wash themselves and their equipment.'
It would seem that the Mahabharata is describing an atomic war! References like this one are not isolated; but battles, using a fantastic array of weapons and aerial vehicles are common in all the epic Indian books. One even describes a Vimana-Vailix battle on the Moon! The above section very accurately describes what an atomic explosion would look like and the effects of the radioactivity on the population. Jumping into water is the only respite. When the Rishi City of was excavated by archaeologists in the last century, they found skeletons just lying in the streets, some of them holding hands, as if some great doom had suddenly overtaken them. These skeletons are among the most radioactive ever found, on a par with those found at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ancient cities whose brick and stonewalls have literally been vitrified, that is-fused together, can be found in India, Ireland, Scotland, France, Turkey and other places. There is no logical explanation for the vitrification of stone forts and cities, except from an atomic blast.
Further more, at Mohenjo-Daro, a well planned city laid on a grid, with a plumbing system superior to those used in Pakistan and India today, the streets were littered with 'black lumps of glass.' These globs of glass were discovered to be clay pots that had melted under intense heat! With the cataclysmic sinking of Atlantis and the wiping out of Rama with atomic weapons, the world collapsed into a 'stone age' of sorts, and modern history picks up a few thousand years later Yet, it would seem that not all the Vimanas and Vailixi of Rama and Atlantis were gone. Built to last for thousands of years, many of them would still be in use, as evidenced by Ashoka's 'Nine Unknown Men' and the Lhasa manuscript. That secret societies or 'Brotherhoods' of exceptional, 'enlightened' human beings would have preserved these inventions and the knowledge of science, history, etc., does not seem surprising. Many well known historical personages including Jesus, Buddah, Lao Tzu, Confucious, Krishna, Zoroaster, Mahavira, Quetzalcoatl, Akhenaton, Moses, and more recent inventors and of course many other people who will probably remain anonymous, were probably members of such a secret organization. It is interesting to note that when Alexander the Great invaded India more than two thousand years ago, his historians chronicled that at one point they were attacked by 'flying, fiery shields' that dove at his army and frightened the cavalry.
These 'flying saucers' did not use any atomic bombs or beam weapons on Alexander's army however, perhaps out of benevolence, and Alexander went on to conquer India. It has been suggested by many writers that these 'Brotherhoods' keep some of their Vimanas and Vailixi in secret caverns in Tibet or some other place is Central Asia, and the Lop Nor Desert in western China is known to be the center of a great UFO mystery.
Perhaps it is here that many of the airships are still kept, in underground bases much as the Americans, British and Soviets have built around the world in the past few decades. Still, not all UFO activity can be accounted for by old Vimanas making trips to the Moon for some reason. Unknown alloys have been revealed in the ancient palm leaf manuscripts. The writer and Sanskrit scholar Subramanyam Iyer has spent many years of his life deciphering old collections of palm leaves found in the villages of his native Karnataka in southern India. One of the palm leaf manuscripts they intend to decipher is the Amsu Bodhini, which, according to an anonymous text of 1931, contains information about the planets; the different kinds of light, heat, color, and electromagnetic fields; the methods used to construct machines capable of attracting solar rays and, in turn, of analyzing and separating their energy components; the possibility of conversing with people in remote places and sending messages by cable; and the manufacture of machines to transport people to other planets! Contributed by John Burrows In one episode, for example, the Vrishnis, a tribe whose warriors include the hero Krishna, are beset by the forces of a leader named Salva.
'The cruel Salva had come mounted on the Saubha chariot that can go anywhere, and from it he killed many valiant Vrishni youths and evilly devastated all city parks.' The Saubha is at once Salva's city, flagship, and battle headquarters. In it, he can fly wherever he chooses. Fortunately, the Vrishni heroes are similarly well equipped, and at one point have Salva at their mercy.
The hero Pradyumna is about to finish him off with a special weapon, when the highest gods stop him 'Not a man in battle is safe from this arrow,' they say, and declare that Salva will fall to Krishna. Krishna took to the sky in pursuit of Salva, but his Saubha clung to the sky at a leagues length. He threw at me rockets, missiles, spears, spikes, battleaxes, three-bladed javelins, flame-throwers, without pausing. Seemed to hold a hundred suns, a hundred moons. And a hundred myriad stars.
Neither day nor night could be made out, or the points of a compass. Krishna, however, wards off Salva's attack with what sounds like antiballistic missiles; I warded them off as they loomed towards me. With my swift-striking shafts, as they flashed through the sky, And I cut them into two or three pieces with mine - There was a great din in the sky above. However, the Saubha becomes invisible. Krishna then loads a special weapon, perhaps an ancient version of a smart bomb? I quickly laid on an arrow, which killed by seeking out sound, to kill them.
All the Danavas Salva's troops who had been screeching lay dead, killed by the blazing sun like arrows that were triggered by sound. However, the Saubha itself escaped the attack. Krishna fires his 'favorite fire weapon' at it, a discus shaped like the 'haloed sun'. The discus breaks the Saubha in two, and the city falls from the sky, killing Salva.
This is the end of the Mahabharata. One of the most intriguing thing about it is that the use of Pradyumna's special arrow, from which 'not a man in battle is safe', was outlawed by the gods. What sort of weapon could this be? Another chapter, describing the use of the Agneya weapon by the hero Adwattan.
When the weapon, a 'blazing missile of smokeless fire' is unleashed; dense arrows of flame, like a great shower, issued forth upon creation, encompassing the enemy. A thick gloom swiftly settled upon the Pandava hosts. All points of the compass were lost in darkness. Fierce winds began to blow. Clouds roared upward, showering dust and gravel.
Birds coked madly. The very elements seemed disturbed. The sun seemed to waver in the heavens. The earth shook, scorched by the terrible violent heat of this weapon. Elephants burst into flame and ran to and fro in a frenzy. Over a vast area, other animals crumpled to the ground and died.
From all points of the compass the arrows of flame rained continuously and fiercely. And if that sounded like a firestorm, then a similar weapon fired by Gurkha sounds like nothing less than a nuclear blast complete with radioactive fallout; Gurkha, flying in his swift and powerful Vimana, hurled against the three cities of the Vrishnis and Andhakas a single projectile charged with all the power of the universe. An incandescent column of smoke and fire, as brilliant as ten thousand suns, rose in all its splendor. It was the unknown weapon, the iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to ashes the entire race of Vrishnis and Andhakas. The corpses were so burnt they were no longer recognizable. Hair and nails fell out. Pottery broke without cause.
Foodstuffs were poisoned. To escape, the warriors threw themselves in streams to wash themselves and their equipment.
The Digital Library of India has been discontinued. There are individual centers scanning and posting the books.
Almost all the books from older collection have been posted on. The older description about the library is retained here for reference. The has mirrored all the pdfs from DLI.
They are linked from. All are categorized in different sections/links, e.g. Langauge wise Sanskrit. Same issues with catalogue typos and incomplete classification exist as it is just a mirror. Use the following lists for Sanskrit, Marathi, Gujarati, and Hindi books which were originally listed at DLI to search archive.org.
(February 2015, 32.3Mb, 33000+ books), (February 2015, 3.4Mb, 3900+ books), (March 2015, 32.7Mb, 34000+ books), (March 2015, 47.8Mb, 54000+ books). For reference purpose, the old DLI collection at IIIT, Hyderabad is listed at,. These books disappeared in the transfer of servers from Hyderabad to Bangalore. Again, use the titles in the list to get them from archive.org or dli.sanskritdictionary.com.
The at hosts thousands of directly downloadable PDF files of many of the books at DLI. See a long list of and books (Jan 2012). The OUDL site appears to be available only during Indian office timings (IST 10 am to 6 pm). The Universal Library at Pittsburgh, USA has plenty of books scanned under Million Books project. houses evergrpwing scanned books as well as music, audiovisual and web contents. The books are available in different formats such as PDF, B and W PDF, text, djvu etc. The following article has detailed instructions for uploading books to archive.org.
All books are in PDF format. Use full view texts in your search options. The namami.org seeks to unearth and preserve the vast manuscript wealth of India. The department publishes a. Although there are no scanned books available, the details of the process and efforts taken in preservation of documents are informative. on South Asia at Columbia University.
It containts plain text English translations and not scanned Sanskrit books like the repositories listed above. has made available over two thousand scanned books in PDF format and is set to more than ten thousands. These are digitized at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA). The digital library is at with. See a list of books with. The Sanskrit book list is given with title and PDF links. A similar list covering the available catalog is also prepared for convenience (Sept 2010).
All the available and planned books are listed on their or a consolidated. at Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi. Some of these are uploaded on archive.org as a backup. In order to centralize some of the different personal collections made over the years, new material written or created by others and some material from this site, we have started This collection also makes materials from some of the digital repositories that are hard to access, easier to access, and also preserves defunct repositories. It also provides backup access for some of the books.
Please see the as well as our project page. Thousands of books are being made available at the TFIC collection. Please use the 'list of titles' at.
You are also invited to contribute books not in our collection. Please send an email to. The has Digital Library with many PDF files. See some cataloged at,. For reference, a set of (National Libraries of India) are formulated.
The UNESCO has given similar but more detailed guidelines at, The Format for Storage of Metadata,., has scanned books on various topics. Use dspace database. Use the page for 175+. They are individually split in contents, chapters or pages. Visit to prefiew or download these books. Books are categorized by language (Banjara, English, Hindi, Kannada, Sanskrit, Tamil, and Telugu), series, and authors. The books are listed in file for convenience.
Personal collections. Several people have collected scans of Sanskrit books from the different repositories and placed them online. at has a list of free downloadable Sanskrit ebooks posted at various sites such as scribd, mediafire, ibiblio.org, esnips, archive.org et cetera. Ajit Krishnan's (or the ) OR grouped in different categories (veda (adhyatmika), advaita, kalpa, vyakaranam, sahitya, natakam, upanyasam, amara kosha, champu, mahakavyam, darshana, stotra.). The total number of files is over 8600. They are categorized (2009) as below.
A title search is also allowed. 01.Vedic Religion (or) Srivaishnava 251 Folders, 6496 Files, Tags: Veda, Srivaishnava, Vadakalai, Vedanta Desikan, Ramanuja. 02.Ebooks Created 42 Folders, 649 Files. 03.Hinduism Created 5 Folders, 101 Files, Hinduism doctrines, scientific proofs, etc.
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has a large collection of encoded as well as scanned books. (Ganita and Jyotish) and Sanskrit Grammar (Vyakarana) texts are available at Joseph Leichter's wilbourhall.org site. Specifically Aryabhatiya, Bhaskaracarya's Siddhanta Siromani, Brahmagupta's Brahma-Sphuta-Siddhanta, Jagannatha Samrat's Rekhaganita, Minaraja'a Vrddhayavanjataka, Panini- Kashika, Mahabhashya, Surya Siddhanta, Varahamihira's Pancasiddhantika, Brihat Samhita, Brhat Jataka et cetera. Astadhyayi of Panini, with the Kashika commentary, Mahabhashya, Amarakosha, Dhatupatha, Siddhanta kaumdi etc.
Categorized links to books from various sources at. See a comprehensive list of scanned books at scribd under. Digital library at. The texts AgamA include kAmika, kiraNa, pUrva karaNa, uttara karaNa, makuTa, suprabheda, vIra, vatUla, yogaja, and many vidhI. hosts many scanned or individually prepared PDF files related to Krishna Consciousness. Also visit for additional downloadable books in different languages.
Shodh Ganga, a reservoir of Indian theses, which include many papers dealing with Sanskrit. Some are available for. Other links to thesis (at least a list) are being compiled at. A Buddhist library site has many downloadable books. It is a Russian site but one can easily follow the English part for accesing the books. It has very unique way of linking the books.
In google search bar type, pdf site:OR pdf site:OR djvu site:to get links to the set of files. Posted books/PDF/audio files on 4shared.com with search on the word. Many of these are reposted copies of items online elsewhere.
is busy entering many Buddhist and Yoga related books. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh RSS books. Books related to speeches of Osho/Rajneesh are available at. Also has quite a few media files providing teachings of the great teacher. The Hindi discourse (videos) are available at.
Additional books can also be found in. Has photography journal interpersed with lectures and writings of Osho. A source of information on Vishishtadvaita. The group is planning for 108 more books under the series.
See also, and (with audio files prepared by Sunder Kidambi.). hosts many articles related to Hindu practices and thoughts. carries scanned copies of Vaishnava, Shakti, Vedanta, Vaishnava-Puranas, Hindi-Sanskrit, stotra, stutis, and sahasranAma related topics. on Scribd posted by Jnaanaananda. The site of includes compositions of Shri Rambhadracharya, especially Unicode Sanskrit texts of the epic Sribhargavaraghaviyam, the epic Gitaramayanam, and the duutakaavya Bhrngadutam.
Scanned PDFs include Ajadacandrasekharacaritam, Srigangamahimnastotram, Srisarayulahari, Srisitaramasuprabhatam, Srisitasudhanidhin (Excerpts). Scanned books are posted in bulk on scribd.com. Links for some of the Sanskrit and indology related books are given below. (We are not sure if some of the books posted on this scribd accounts have copyrights. If these links are objectionable, please specify as we are just providing information.). Many of the above books can also be found at archive.org under different accounts. Some of the notables are given below.
संस्कृत-ग्रंथाः. विद्वन्मनोरञ्जनी. वैयाकरण+खसूची. posted. at in English, Gujarati, and Hindi built from question answer sessions of Dada Bhagwan (Ambalal Muljibhai Patel) who established Akram Vignan - the science of Self Realization.
Good collection of Gujarati books with some pdf downloads at sivohm.com site. has independently scanned books of various authors. Books written by V.
Savarkar, mostly in Marathi, are available at,. The books written by Swami Raksukhadas are available for download, see and, and sections. Most of these are quality publications from, for hard copy book sales. holds many Vaishnava literature manuscripts.
For 'ultimate evangelization of India.' Orientalists could not win to adopt Sanskrit in the education (good or bad?).,. Aryasamaj publications are available at many places, see,. They include original text and commentaries of all Vedas, Satyartha Prakash, related books, and complete works of Dayananda Saraswati who established Aryasamaj based on.
The ved-yoga.com hosts many publications in PDF format. See the and associated links under Vedic Literature, Yog-Darshan, Swami Dayananda Literature. Books by Swamiji Paramananda Bharati are at. They include a biography of Adi Shankaracharya titled mahaparivrajaka. It is available in, and its translation in,.
Other books are Shankarananda Tatvagalu in Telugu, Brahmasutra Catuhsutri in English and Hindi, Vedanta Prabodha in English and Telugu. The following link has puShTi-mArga-vaishnava books for free download. It has several Sanskrit granthas. The sublinks leads to more books.
The.net and.org are interconnected. See additional books in on More puShTimArga related kirtan-sangraha books are available at including Anya-prakirna, Bhaav-bhaavna, kirtan-sangrah, Nibandh-bhaagvat, Shodash-granth, and Vachnamrut-vaarta. In addition, gives 1000+ books (20+GB) along with. The depository is maintained at. Explore also audio lectures and music at, a curriculum to encourage Advanced Studies in Pushtimarg Pravachan with study material,.
The texts such as Vishwaparakash, Sahitya Rukmini Mangala Kavya, Prayoga, Sanskrit Kirtan, Vaishnava Agama Mahopanishat Padma Samhita, Neeti: Pravhin Katha Sadharan, Geeta Govinda Gudhartha Deepika, Shrinivas Vilas of Venkatesh, are linked from, and under celebrating Samskrutam Series. The following site has scanned images of hundred of Ayurveda manuscripts (handwritten) in Sanskrit., the Most Comprehensive Collection of Sanskrit Quotations Ever in Eight Volumes by Ludwik Sternbach (editor)., all issues are posted. The magazine is a publication of Ishwar Ashram Trust, New Delhi.
The Magazine was started by Swami Lakshman Joo himself. The Magazine is one of the Notable Contributions to Kashmir Shaivite Scholarship in recent years. Magazine includes articles in English, Hindi, Sanskrit and Kashmiri., download available once are disabled. Provide contact details and the purpose to Shri Sampadananda Mishra sampadanandamishra at gmail.com to download the books. Five scanned volumes are posted at.
at is a repository of various Hindi commentaries on the Gita including Hindi version of Gita Rahasya and works on Krishna by well known scholars like Karapatri Maharaj, Swami Akhandanandaji, Sudarsan Singh Chakra, et al, in addition to 'Krishna Ank' of Kalyan in text format., Ensinamentos Sagrados da Vedanta prepared by students of Vedanta and the teachings of Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda from Sao Paulo, Brazil. The site has many links to related books., holds free e-books on Vedanta, Sanskrit Grammar and Indian Culture.
Visit, for over 90 high level Sanskrit grammar scanned books. The list includes Ashtadhayi of Panini with commentaries, Upsargartha Chandrika, Laghu Siddhanta Kaumudi with commentaries, Vakyapadiya of Bhartrihari, Varttika, Nighantu, Nirukta, Sphotanirnaya, Madhya Siddhanta Kaumudi Prashnottari, Upsarga Varga of Mahadeva Bhattacharya, Vyakarana Chandrodaya, et cetera. Many books are compiled on archvie.org access.
Other audio and book collection by is also on archive.org. The site is involved with Music research and documentation. It hosts scanned Sanskrit granthas for the, such as Abhinava-tala-manjari, Ashtottara-sata-tala-laksanam, Sangita-samaya-sara, Raga-vibodha, Raga-mala, Sangita-sastra,Raga-manjari et cetera. The site contents are available.
at is a 'collection of publicly accessible and freely downloadable electronic resources related to Indian Music.' It has catalogues, periodicals, dissertations, and a few hundreds of scanned books, all related to Indian music, Hindustani, Carnatic, and others. There are many audio files (30 min each from cassettes) for learning Carnatic Sangeet. Many of the books from are also available at archive.org. Please follow the list prepared for convenience of access on archive.org. Sanskrit Chandamama serial copies from 1984 through 2006 are available at They are arranged by years,. Explore other sets of different years as they get posted online.
Thanks to Chandamama publishers to produce such marvelous publication. It is unfortunate that due to financial troubles the magazine had to be shut down. Thanks to Srikanth to save/store and post this collection online. Guruguha Sangita Sampradaya Pradarshini at hosts texts and translations, essays, articles and indices relating and pertaining to South Indian Classical Music (Carnatic music).
The scanned books in the library are available in The English version of 'Sangita Sampradaya Pradarshini' by Subbarama Dikshitar is not a scanned document, but actually typeset in LaTeX and placed in www.ibiblio.org/guruguha as a five part series as PDF files. (It was the first attempt at translating this mammoth telugu work. It is entered by P. Narayanaswami.). of Chitrakoot, Madhya Pradesh available for download and on Wiki.
In the continuation of spirit of helping people increase their devotion, the trusties have their publication available for free to download. Please see the section. The books include Tejinivanamahathmiyam, Vishnu Stuthi Manjari-1, Vishnu Stuthi Manjari-2, Vishnu Stuthi Manjari-3, Samartha Ramadas charitram, Stutithrayee, Veesharanyamahathmiyam, Soundaryalahiripart1, Soundaryalahiri part 2, JayaJayaHanuman, Srivachyakshetramahathmiyam, Hanumanstuthimanjari, KasiKandam, Balasaparya, et cetera. (The builtin Firefox browser has problem with the PDF files just apparently with many font based errors, so download and view these in PDF reader.). A study of history of Indology, details at 'An Expose of Indologists of the Raj and Their Gurus!' . A large number of scanned books written in Odia are available at.
Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha hosts couple of., Thane, Maharashtra, India, has undertaken many noteworthy projects over many years. Explore the contents of the page. There are quite a few scanned books in their Digital Repository section that is searchable using dspace. Click on, and including (since 1996) and celebrated Saddharma (since 1965). (Needs subscription.) In September 2014, the mandal is organizing an international conference to celebrate. To prepare for the occasion, it has gathered Bhaskaracharya's and on the topic. Visit महाराष्ट्र राज्य साहित्य आणि संस्कृती मंडळ Maharashtra State Literarature and Cultural Center has presented 444 Marathi books well known authors at their for additional information Books are listed and for convenience.
Corresponding. are available for download.
Also a video. All the puranas are available for download at, and are also available at.
The site provides many large scanned books such as Rigveda, Samaveda, Atharva Veda, Bhavishya Puran, Brahma Puran, Brahmavaivarta Puran, Chhandogyopanishad, Devi-Stotra-Ratnakar, Garg-Sanhita, Garuda Puran, Kalidas Sukti Sudha, Kurma Puran, Laghu Siddhanta Kaumudi, Brahad-Dristtant-Mahasagar, Matsya Puran, Narada Puran, Padma Puran, Patanjali Yogadarshan, Bhavartha Ramayan, Shiva Puran, stotra ratnavali, Vishnu Pran, Valmiki Ramayan, Varaha Puran, Vaman Purana et cetera and corresponding audio files for some texts with Hindi translations. Many (Age 80+) are available for download at especially in Konkani (Goan) and English. The books are well formatted and published. They are freely available in PDF format.
His autobiographical essay is thought-provoking. holds PDF files from scanned books of catalogues which are listed in the book (1998) by Subhas. Biswas and referenced elsewhere. Has made these available in connection with the project. Funded by the Austrian Science Fund.
account on scribd has many Sanskrit books. See Veda Bhashya, Sanskrit Pratibha journal issues, Sanskirt Unmesha 14th Rajasthan Sanskrit Sahitya Sammelan, and various grantha. Kerala Sahitya Akademi has uploaded hundreds of open-domain Malayalam books (includes Sanskrit books in Malayalam script and a small number of English books) at DLI link of (downloadable as single PDF files like ASI library). Another collection of Malayalam scanned books is provided by Malayalam daily, Mathrubhumi, at, click on books. (many of them being in German).
With nicer display format. There are many scanned journals from different groups and followings posted on the internet. (Some of them are not in Sanskrit are useful readings. These are listed here for interested readers.)., at The Online Journal of the International Association of Sanskrit Studies, from Italy., digitized by Center for Social Sciences and Humanities of University of Pune. It was established in 1973. There are 31 volumes scanned. Full index is given at.
(Sanskrit, Hindi). (English). English magazines of Anandmoyi Ma and. The Ramakrishna Math back issues of publications are available at. Other non-Sanskrit but equally important scanned books of the works of personalities, their experiences, and their reach to inspire are in following collections:.
in 5 volumes at archive.org (Vol1 is in DJVU format). Hindusthani Sangeet Shastra by Pandit Bhatkhande,.
The scanned books by Smt. Pushpa Srivatsan are posted on of her instrumental recitals. The scholarly books written and translated by her in Engilsh and Tamizh are,.
Being an ardent devotee of Sri Tyagaraja and his music, the gadyam is a 'lilting poetic prose that describes the grandeur, splendour and spiritual vibrations of the snow-clad ranges, dense forests, gushing rivers and placid lakes of the majestic Himalayas as the Sadguru's form, nature, teachings, principles and his Kirtanas.' .
Back issues of ISKCON's magazine 'Back to Goahead' are available at Scanned pdfs of first editions of Prabhupada's Bhagavata, Gita, etc are available at. Sahitya Academy under 'Makers of Indian Literature' series has scanned and posted many biographies in different languages. The files are available at. There are two Sanskrit books that need mention are Bhatta Mathuranath Shastri 'Manjunath' (Kalanath Shastri) and Swami Vivekanandah (Nimai Sadhan Bose). Library of Yoga books, magazines and conference proceedings are available at. It is maintained by, as a Centre of Advanced Research (CAR) in Yoga and Neurophysiology accredited by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
contains many PDF files of literature of and on Swami Vivekananda published and edited by Frank Parlato Jr. is hosting many scanned PDFs of books and 'jaina pathadarshak' magazine on Jain literature with emphasis on Digambara sub-sect. The aim of the trust is to 'Prepare full-time scholars in Indian religion, philosophy and culture and oriental languages so as to enable them to help moral awakening and character building programs in the community, both in India and abroad.' . Digital Library has compiled books by and on individual personalities. These include Collected works of, and,.
These are listed in Indian. with writings in 61 volumes, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Minister of Culture, Government of India., सम्पूर्ण गांधी वाङ्ग्मय at is a repository of complete works of and about Mahatma Gandhi. A Sanskrit translation of Gandhiji's autobiography 'The Story of My Experiments with Truth' in Sanskrit is avaialble as, translated by Pandit Hoskere Nagapa Shastri, 2009 edition. A comprehensive compilation of is available.
See the for this portal. Complete works of Mahatma Gandhi is available at along with publications by his associates such as Acharya Vinoba Bhave, Jayaprakash Narayan, Dada Dharmadhikari and others such as, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Badshah Khan, Mahadev Desai, Maganlal Gandhi, Mirabehn, J. Kumarappa, Hermann Kallenbach, and Baba Amte.
The site includes speeches, audio, video, photo gallery and many articles. Sanskrit translation of Gita Pravachan by Vinoba Bhave is available at the following link.
are available on this google drive. has Japuji Guru Nanak and its Sanskritanuwad written by Sukhdev Muni.
Nepal's digital library is posted at and searched portion for. scanned and posted by Dr.
Demian Martins on archive.org. Was a well known Gaudiya Vaishnava acharya (religious teacher) in 18th century. He was a prolific writer. (Information and list of books posted on BVParishat group July 11, 2014.). Links to Sanskrit Stories., includes Balanitikathamala - Nandalal 1921, Chorachatvarimsi Katha (Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves) - GK Modak 1934, Divyadrishti - Sanskrit story - Narayana Sastri Khiste 1936, Dvatrimsat Puttalika Simhasanam - Jivananda Vidyasagara 1896, Kapinamupavasah - DT Tatachariyar 1913, Katha Kusuma - Pt Ambikadatta Vyasa 1887, Katha Kutukam - Richard Schmidt 1898, Nitipatham - Pandith Priyanath Vidyabhushan 1926, and Samskrita Katha Sangraha - DK Rajguru 1938. by Siromani Sannidanam Suryanarayana Sasthri (DJVU format).
posted by Atul Narkhede. The stories include chaturasya kAlIdAsasya, muurkhabhR^ityasya, vR^idhhaayaaH chaaturyam, Devabhakta, shIta.n bahu bAdhati, shaTham.h prati shaaThyam.h, jaatasya hi dhruvo mR^ityuH, J. Tata, vachanaM shiilam.h aakhyaati, chitrakaarasya kaushalam.h, mohanasya saMskR^itadhyayanam.h, naamadheyena kiM phalam.h, mushaka vadh.
monthly magazine from Samskrita Bharati. The books can be viewed in Devanagari Unicode and downloaded in PDf format. The newer site has lots of new features including mobile friendly outlook. Index of authors and articles from all back issues is also available now. Some of the stories in audio format are at, listed as AmtavishvAsasyajAgaraNAya200708.mp3 776K, bhaktasevaa.MP3 804K, gurutaram.mp3 3.6M, kaka.mp3 2.4M, kathaa1.MP3 890K, kutira.mp3 2.4M, kvaGatamDhanam.mp3 1.7M, madhuravachanaani.MP3 774K, naBhutaH.mp3 871K, panchatantrakathAH/ 13-Dec-2008 08:27 -, pandityam.mp3 919K, sarvashreshta.mp3 6.7M, shilAkhandAyatesparshamaniHapi200708.mp3 900K, tRShNAsarpasyadaMSanam.mp3 13-Dec-2008 08:47 2.7M, trayaHprshnaaH.MP3 746K, tvarAkAraNAtvismRitamyat200708.mp3 489K, upadesha.mp3. on bookboxinc channel. on soundcloud.com.
and combined as (, ) 1अध्येतव्यं बहु अस्ति - 03:47 2अनन्य-शरणता - 03:26 3ज्ञानी नाम - 03:28 4मन्दहासपूर्वकं तत् मुखम् - 03:54 5मनोधर्मः तु भिद्यते - 03:31 6परिश्रमेण साध्यं सर्वम् - 04:15 7सर्वं प्राप्तुं शक्यम् - 03:01 8यशस्वितायाः रहस्यम् - 03:18 9अध्यापनं मम धर्मः - 04:11 10परोपकारी स्वामी - 04:15. The has quite a few Sanskrit stories very well drawn and presente d. There is no audio or video. Visitors are encouraged to volunteer to transla te stories in Sanskrit.
The current list includes over 30 stories in Sanskrit (February 2016.). Samskrit Bharati has initiated collection of stories in their. is online website of Rare Book Society in India.
The site is setup to encourage to discuss and rediscover truth with the help of rare books posted on the site. Site includes links/collection of videos as well. Works of Sridhara Ayyaval both in Sanskrit and Tamil at. Sanskrit essays, articles, biographics.
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