Scriptural
Sources in shruti, smriti, puranic, and sacred-historical traditions.
Agni Purana
Edition or translation of the Agni Purana, an encyclopedic Purana covering cosmology, ritual, iconography, kingship, and sacred practice.
encyclopedic purana
ritual
sacred knowledge
Aitareya Upanishad
English edition or translation of the Aitareya Upanishad, highlighting creation, consciousness, and the identity of the self with ultimate reality.
creation doctrine
consciousness
atman
Bhagavata Purana
Edition or translation of the Bhagavata Purana, a major Vaishnava Purana centered on Krishna, bhakti, cosmology, and liberation.
krishna bhakti
bhakti theology
puranic narrative
Brahma Purana
Edition or translation of the Brahma Purana, creation narratives, sacred geography, pilgrimage, ritual life, and dynastic lore.
cosmology
sacred geography
dynastic lore
Brahmanda Purana
Edition or translation of the Brahmanda Purana, cosmology, cycles of time, genealogies, and later devotional theology.
cosmology
cyclical time
genealogies
Brhadaranyak Upanishad
English edition or translation of the Brhadaranyak Upanishad, highlighting selfhood, negation, sacrifice, and the search for brahman.
atman
brahman
negation
Chandogya Upanishad
English edition or translation of the Chandogya Upanishad, highlighting meditation, sacred speech, ritual symbolism, and the teaching of tat tvam asi.
meditation
tat tvam asi
sacred speech
Garuda Purana
Edition or translation of the Garuda Purana, afterlife teachings, funerary rites, ethics, cosmology, and Vaishnava doctrine.
afterlife
funerary rites
vaishnava doctrine
Geography of the Puranas
Edition or translation of the Geography of the Puranas, a Purana text combining mythology, cosmology, ritual observance, and sacred geography.
MA Ali
sacred geography
puranic worldview
pilgrimage space
Harivansha Purana
Edition or translation of the Harivansha Purana, Krishna lineage narratives and cosmological material closely tied to the Mahabharata tradition.
krishna lineage
mahabharata appendix
mythic genealogy
Isha Upanishad
English edition or translation of the Isha Upanishad, highlighting renunciation, action, inner self, and the relation between knowledge and world-engagement.
renunciation
action and knowledge
atman
Katha Upanishad
English edition or translation of the Katha Upanishad, highlighting death, the self, disciplined choice, and liberation through insight.
death dialogue
self knowledge
liberation
Kena Upanishad
English edition or translation of the Kena Upanishad, highlighting the limits of ordinary cognition and the grounding of mind and speech in brahman.
brahman
limits of cognition
revelation
Kurma Purana
Edition or translation of the Kurma Purana, cosmology, pilgrimage, dharma, and sectarian theology in dialogic form.
pilgrimage
dharma
sectarian theology
Linga Purana
Edition or translation of the Linga Purana, Shaiva theology of the linga alongside cosmology, vows, and sacred geography.
shaiva theology
linga symbolism
sacred geography
Maitrayaniya Upanishad
English edition or translation of the Maitrayaniya Upanishad, highlighting self-knowledge, mind, time, cosmology, and yogic discipline.
mind
time
yogic discipline
Mandukya Upanishad
English edition or translation of the Mandukya Upanishad, highlighting Om, waking-dream-sleep states, and the non-dual fourth state.
om
states of consciousness
non dualism
Markandeya Purana
Edition or translation of the Markandeya Purana, mythic and ethical narrative best known for the Devi Mahatmya and broader cosmological material.
devi mahatmya
mythic narrative
cosmology
Matsya Purana
Edition or translation of the Matsya Purana, the flood myth together with temple, iconographic, genealogical, and pilgrimage material.
flood myth
iconography
temple lore
Mundaka Upanishad
English edition or translation of the Mundaka Upanishad, highlighting higher and lower knowledge, brahman, renunciation, and liberation.
higher knowledge
renunciation
brahman
Narada Purana
Edition or translation of the Narada Purana, ritual, devotion, pilgrimage, and religious observance in a Purana compendium format.
devotional practice
pilgrimage
ritual observance
Padma Purana
Edition or translation of the Padma Purana, creation, pilgrimage, dharma, sacred places, and large Vaishnava devotional sections.
pilgrimage
vaishnava devotion
sacred places
Prashna Upanishad
English edition or translation of the Prashna Upanishad, highlighting six questions on prana, cosmology, Om, and the inner self.
question dialogue
prana
om
Shiva Purana
Edition or translation of the Shiva Purana, myths, worship, cosmology, and theology centered on Shiva.
shaiva mythology
devotional worship
cosmology
Skanda Purana
Edition or translation of the Skanda Purana, a vast pilgrimage-oriented Purana organized around sacred geography and regional mahatmyas.
pilgrimage cycles
regional mahatmya
sacred geography
Taittiriya Upanishad
English edition or translation of the Taittiriya Upanishad, highlighting the sheaths of the self, brahman as bliss, and the transmission of Vedic learning.
five sheaths
brahman as bliss
vedic education
Vamana Purana
Edition or translation of the Vamana Purana, mythic narrative, pilgrimage, and Vaishnava themes around the Vamana tradition.
vamana myth
pilgrimage
vaishnava theology
Varaha Purana
Edition or translation of the Varaha Purana, Vaishnava cosmology, ritual observance, pilgrimage, and the Varaha incarnation.
varaha avatar
vaishnava theology
pilgrimage
Vayu Purana
Edition or translation of the Vayu Purana, cosmology, genealogies, dynastic memory, and ancient sacred lore.
genealogies
dynastic memory
cosmology
Vishnu Purana
Edition or translation of the Vishnu Purana, creation, dynasties, avatara doctrine, cosmology, and dharma in a foundational Vaishnava Purana.
avatara doctrine
cosmology
dynastic history
