Sources and licences

Every text in the Library names its edition on its own page. These are the collections the editions come from. If you hold rights in an e-text and object to its presence, write to us and it will be removed.

• GRETIL, Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages (SUB Göttingen)

  Sanskrit for most of the Library: the Vedas, Upaniṣads, epics, Purāṇas, śāstra, Buddhist and Jaina works.

  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 with attribution for the TEI files; older files carry their own terms ("academic and scholarly purposes", "for reference purposes"), recorded on each text's page. HREEM is non-commercial.

• Sanskrit Wikisource

  Texts GRETIL does not hold: the Vājasaneyi and Taittirīya Saṃhitās, the Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, the Suśruta-saṃhitā, the Pañcadaśī, four Purāṇas, the sahasranāmas and Śaṅkara's shorter works, each with its page's own verse numbers.

  The texts are public domain; the page markup is CC BY-SA 4.0.

• Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (Oliver Hellwig)

  The Caraka-saṃhitā, the Brāhmaṇas, the Gheraṇḍa-saṃhitā, the Mātaṅgalīlā's companions in the sciences and others, with the corpus's own sentence numbers.

  CC BY 4.0.

• The gita/gita dataset

  The Bhagavad Gītā's Sanskrit, word-meanings and English translations. Shown: Shri Purohit Swami (d. 1941) and Swami Sivananda (d. 1963), public domain in India. Held but not shown until their rights are verified: Swami Gambirananda, Dr S. Sankaranarayan and Swami Adidevananda.

  The dataset carries a public-domain dedication (Unlicense); that dedication cannot clear a translator's own copyright, so each translation is judged on its own.

• Swami Paramananda, The Upanishads (1919); F. Max Müller, Sacred Books of the East (1879, 1884)

  English for the principal Upaniṣads, via Project Gutenberg, English Wikisource and Internet Archive scans. Müller's text is attached only where his section numbering matches the Sanskrit exactly.

  Public domain.

• R. T. H. Griffith, The Hymns of the Rigveda (1896); W. D. Whitney, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (1905); A. B. Keith, The Veda of the Black Yajus School (1914); G. Bühler, The Laws of Manu (1886)

  English for the Ṛgveda, the Atharvaveda, the first part of the Taittirīya Saṃhitā and the Manu-smṛti. The Sāmaveda and the White Yajurveda are read through their Ṛgveda parallels, labelled as such.

  Public domain.

• Mātaṅgalīlā of Nīlakaṇṭha, Trivandrum Sanskrit Series 10 (1910)

  Machine-read from the scanned edition; awaiting proofreading, which its page says.

  The edition is public domain; the transcription CC BY 4.0.

Nothing generated is presented as scripture. Where a verse has no held translation, only the Sanskrit is shown; any rendering HREEM adds is marked as HREEM's. How each source was aligned is written up in the method notes.