About HREEM
What it is
HREEM is a digital library of Sanskrit texts with tools for reading, study and practice. It holds 532 texts (7,62,517 verses) as their scholarly editions give them, with public-domain English where a translation aligns verse by verse. A search finds a word or a reference; a study companion answers questions by quoting only what is held; courses read the texts verse by verse with sound; and games built from real verses, letters and the first lesson of Carnatic music make practice of it.
What it holds
The Vedas, the principal Upaniṣads and the Bhagavad Gītā; the epics and the Purāṇas; the śāstras of law, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, music, building and statecraft; Śaṅkara; Buddhist and Jaina works. Sanskrit comes from GRETIL, Sanskrit Wikisource and the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit; English from Purohit Swami, Sivananda, Paramananda, Müller, Griffith, Whitney, Keith and Bühler. Each text's page names its edition, and the sources page lists every collection and its licence.
How it is built
Nothing generated is presented as scripture. Texts are imported from their editions with their own numbering, and the import refuses a page whose numbering does not check. Where no translation is held, only the Sanskrit is shown, and any rendering HREEM adds is marked as HREEM's. Every verse the study companion quotes is compared with the corpus before it is shown. The method notes record how each source was aligned and what was refused.
How to cite
Every verse has a permanent address, for example hreem.cc/library/BG/2.47. Cite the verse by its reference and the edition named on the text's page; cite HREEM as the place it was read.
Follow
New texts, translations and courses are announced to subscribers; the form is at the foot of every page. The opening sequence of the site, a short animated arrival, is kept at /hreem.html.