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

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