Free Hindu Scripture & Mythology

The verse translation that first carried the Gita into English poetry, and still the most quoted of them all.

The complete eighteen-parva epic in prose — the only unabridged English Mahabharata free of copyright.

The epic distilled to its narrative spine in verse — the shortest honest way into the Mahabharata.

Valmiki's epic in full, from Rama's birth through exile and war to the return to Ayodhya.

A four-in-one anthology of classics — fables, a love story, an epic in miniature, and a play.

A readable modern rendering of the principal Upanishads by a monk of the Ramakrishna Order.

Badarayana’s aphorisms with the commentary that founded Advaita Vedanta.

The same sutras read through Vishishtadvaita — the devotional answer to Shankara.

Creation, cosmology and the lineages of kings, told through the avatars of Vishnu.

Kalidasa’s plays and poems — the high classical voice of Sanskrit literature.

The courtship of Shiva and Parvati and the birth of Kartikeya, in verse.

Arnold’s Indian verse collection, whose centrepiece is Jayadeva’s song-cycle of Radha and Krishna.

Both epics retold as connected stories — a gentle first doorway for new readers.

A curated cross-section of Max Müller’s fifty-volume series, in a single readable book.

The lectures by the editor of the Sacred Books of the East on why Indian thought matters.

The oldest layer of Sanskrit scripture — 1,028 hymns to Agni, Indra, Usha and the Vedic gods.

Charms, blessings and healing hymns — the most everyday and human of the four Vedas.

The sacrificial formulae of the Vajasaneyi Samhita, the liturgy of the Vedic altar.

The scholarly standard for over a century — Chandogya, Brihadaranyaka, Katha, Isha and more.

The yoga, sannyasa and Vaishnava Upanishads that sit outside the principal twelve.

The first Purana rendered into English, and still the most carefully annotated.

Vishnu’s dialogue with Garuda on death, the afterlife and the rites owed to the departed.

The great Shakta Purana — the cosmos told with the Goddess at its centre.

A systematic guide to the gods — who they are, where their stories come from, how they changed.

The epics and Puranic legends retold as literature by two of their finest interpreters.

The 196 aphorisms on stilling the mind, with a commentary aimed at practitioners.

The fifteenth-century manual of asana, pranayama and mudra that hatha yoga rests on.

The tantra that introduced the West to Shakta ritual and philosophy.

The weaver-poet of Banaras on God without form, rendered by India’s Nobel laureate.

Raja, Karma, Jnana and Bhakti Yoga, the Chicago addresses, and the letters — the whole corpus.

Animal fables on friendship and statecraft — the source of a thousand later stories worldwide.

Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas, both epics and thousands of stotras in the original Devanagari.

Kabir, Tulsidas and the Hindi devotional canon, transcribed from scanned originals.

The scholarly reference corpus — critical editions of both epics, the Vedas and major Puranas.

Both epics, eighty Upanishads and two hundred stotras, with word-by-word dictionary lookup built in.

The web’s largest stotra collection, rendered on demand in a dozen Indian scripts.

The deepest English Purana collection online, including the complete Skanda Purana.

The Gita with ten classical commentaries side by side, plus the Ramayana and Ramcharitmanas.

Bhagavad-gītā As It Is and the complete Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam with purports, verse by verse.

Two hundred complete texts in one place — the oldest and broadest free scripture library on the web.

The complete series scanned page by page — the foundation of Western Indology.

Two hundred books given away free — Gita and Upanishad commentaries, and yoga manuals.

Modern primers on Hindu belief and practice, all released free in digital form.

All four Vedas with their Brahmanas, Aranyakas and Upanishads, plus manuscript scans.

The Gita, Ramcharitmanas and the Puranas from India’s most-read devotional publisher.

Eight hundred devotional titles in nine languages, readable free in the browser.

India’s longest-running English journal, started at Swami Vivekananda’s wish. Every issue is online.

The global magazine of Hindu life — temples, practice and diaspora, free since 2005.

Reflections on self-enquiry from the ashram Ramana Maharshi founded at Arunachala.

A Hindi devotional monthly readable back to its earliest issues, with editions in ten languages.

A century of essays on Vedanta and the Ramakrishna movement, digitised article by article.

A monthly review of culture from Pondicherry, with the full run open as PDFs.

Monthly themed compilations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s writings.

Six decades of issues free to download, in English, Telugu, Hindi and ten more languages.

Sivananda’s English and Hindi monthlies, published free year by year.

The temple trust’s illustrated devotional monthly, free in six languages.

Vedanta examined from a Western vantage point, with every past issue free.

Twelve digital volumes of Vedanta essays, free to download.

A nationalist-spiritual monthly in the Vivekananda tradition, published openly online.

The most widely read Hindi devotional magazine ever published, including its famous special issues.

Kalyan’s English companion, with themed annuals on the Gita, the Bhagavata and the Ramayana.

The current devotional monthly, published in parallel Hindi and English editions.

Chinmaya Mission’s monthly on Vedanta study and practice.

The full Gita read aloud in nineteen sections — public domain, ad-free, downloadable.

A single-narrator reading of the Gita, steady in voice from first verse to last.

The Gita read in German, for listeners who prefer it in that language.

Valmiki’s epic read complete across six books — the longest free Ramayana recording there is.

The epic in verse, read end to end in a single sitting’s worth of listening.

Nachiketa’s dialogue with Death — the Upanishad the Gita quotes most.

The Upanishad of "tat tvam asi" — that thou art — read in full.

The longest and oldest of the principal Upanishads, read complete.

Eighteen verses on the whole and the part — the shortest Upanishad, and a good first listen.

The Upanishad of the two birds, and the source of India’s national motto.

The Brahma Sutra Bhashya read aloud — twenty-one hours of foundational Vedanta.

Patanjali’s aphorisms on the eight limbs of yoga, in a choice of readings.

The animal fables narrated end to end — the best of these for listening with children.

An early Indian teacher in America on Krishna’s life and the theology of love.

The classical Sanskrit play of the forest maiden and the king who forgets her.

The song-offerings that won the Nobel Prize — devotional poetry read aloud.

The book that brought kriya yoga west, read in full from the public-domain first edition.

The sage Ashtavakra’s dialogue with King Janaka on liberation, in three languages.

Dattatreya’s song of the free soul — among the most uncompromising Advaita texts.

The opening book of the Yoga Vasistha, on the dispassion that begins the search.

The short text at the heart of self-enquiry, in English and Hindi readings.

A complete Hindi exposition of the Gita, one audio chapter at a time.

A celebrated Malayalam discourse series on the Gita, across 152 recordings.

Tulsidas’s Ramayana sung and narrated across 411 radio episodes.

Every verse of the Gita recited in Sanskrit, with Hindi and English readings alongside.

Vedic chanting and more than a thousand stotra recordings, contributed over decades.

Shakha-wise recordings of the oral Vedic tradition UNESCO lists as intangible heritage.

Daily Veda and Tamil parayana, plus audiobooks of the Ribhu Gita and Vivekachudamani.

Four thousand recordings — aartis, stotras, Sundarkand, Gita paath and Bhagavata katha.

The television Ramayan that emptied India’s streets on Sunday mornings, complete with subtitles.

The other landmark serial, in full, with English subtitles throughout.

Every chapter with word-by-word Sanskrit meaning — made for readers who want the original.

The lecture series that made serious Vedanta popular in English — Gita, Mandukya, Katha and more.

Archival chapter-wise recordings from the teacher who built one of India’s largest missions.

Tens of thousands of verse-by-verse classes, kirtans and live temple broadcasts.

Talks on the Gita and Upanishads and documentaries from the order’s headquarters.

Daily Veda parayana livestreams and talks on Ramana Maharshi’s teaching.

Commentary on the Gita and the Mahabharata, and explainers on Shiva and Krishna.

A Hindi Gita series, alongside a commentary on the Ashtavakra Gita.

Four thousand recorded talks — the Gita, Vivekachudamani and the Yoga Sutras.

Carefully sourced short documentaries on Indian scripture, science and history.

University lecture courses on Indian philosophy and the Sanskrit textual tradition.

Vintage national broadcaster footage — classical performance and documentary.

The Marathi saint-film honoured at Venice, now in the public domain in India.

Recitation, Ramayan paath and institutional films from the publisher itself.

The complete Bhagavata Mahapurana katha in 155 parts, plus Mahabharata and Devi Bhagavata.