Texts
Scriptures, epics, treatises and inscriptions.
46 entries
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- AbhijnanashakuntalamA Sanskrit play in seven acts by the poet Kalidasa, dramatizing the courtship, separation, an…
- Adhyātma RāmāyaṇaThe Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇa is a Sanskrit retelling of the epic embedded in the Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa, w…
- Adhyātmarāmāyaṇaṃ KiḷippāṭṭuThe Adhyātmarāmāyaṇaṃ Kiḷippāṭṭu is Ezhuttacchan's Malayalam version of the Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇa…
- Ānanda RāmāyaṇaThe Ānanda Rāmāyaṇa is a late Sanskrit retelling ascribed to Vālmīki, probably of the fifteen…
- Araṇya KāṇḍaThe Araṇya Kāṇḍa is the third book of the Rāmāyaṇa, covering the years in the Daṇḍaka forest,…
- Ashokan edictsThe Ashokan edicts are inscriptions on rocks and pillars across the subcontinent issued by th…
- Ayodhyā KāṇḍaThe Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa is the second book of the Rāmāyaṇa, in which Kaikeyī's two boons send Rāma…
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- Dasam GranthThe Dasam Granth is a collection of compositions associated with Guru Gobind Singh, whose aut…
- Dasaratha JātakaThe Dasaratha Jātaka is the Pāli birth-story in which the Bodhisatta is born as Rāma-paṇḍita,…
- Devi MahatmyaThe Devi Mahatmya is a Sanskrit text of roughly 700 verses embedded in the Markandeya Purana,…
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- Jain AgamasThe Jain Agamas are the scriptural canon of the Svetambara order, held to derive from the tea…
- Japji SahibThe Japji Sahib is Guru Nanak's principal composition, placed at the opening of the Guru Gran…
- Jataka talesThe Jatakas are stories of the Buddha's previous births, numbering some 547 in the Pali colle…
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- Kakawin RāmāyaṇaThe Kakawin Rāmāyaṇa is the Old Javanese version of the epic, composed in central Java in abo…
- Kalpa SutraThe Kalpa Sutra is a Svetambara Jain text giving the lives of the tirthankaras and the rules…
- Kiṣkindhā KāṇḍaThe Kiṣkindhā Kāṇḍa is the fourth book of the Rāmāyaṇa, in which Rāma allies with the exiled…
- Kṛttivāsī RāmāyaṇaThe Kṛttivāsī Rāmāyaṇa is the Bengali retelling composed by Kṛttibās Ojhā in the fifteenth ce…
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- MahabharataThe Mahabharata is a Sanskrit epic of ancient India, traditionally ascribed to the sage Vyasa…
- Milinda PanhaThe Milinda Panha is a Pali dialogue between the Greek king Menander and the monk Nagasena, i…
- Mul MantarThe Mul Mantar is the opening statement of the Guru Granth Sahib, a short formula setting out…
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- Pali CanonThe Pali Canon is the scriptural collection of Theravada Buddhism, the only early Buddhist ca…
- PaumacariyaThe Paumacariya is Vimalasūri's Prakrit retelling of the Rāmāyaṇa from a Jain standpoint, in…
- Phra Lak Phra LamPhra Lak Phra Lam is the Lao Rāmāyaṇa, named for Lakṣmaṇa before Rāma, told as a birth-story…
- PuranasThe Puranas are a body of Sanskrit smriti literature — eighteen major texts and numerous mino…
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- RamakienThe Ramakien is the Thai national version of the Rāmāyaṇa, whose fullest text was composed un…
- RāmāyaṇaThe Rāmāyaṇa is the Sanskrit epic attributed to Vālmīki, in seven books, telling how Rāma of…
- RāmcaritmānasThe Rāmcaritmānas is Tulsīdās's retelling of the Rāmāyaṇa in Awadhi, begun at Ayodhyā in 1574…
- Raṅganātha RāmāyaṇaThe Raṅganātha Rāmāyaṇa is the earliest full Telugu retelling of the epic, composed in the dv…
- ReamkerThe Reamker is the Khmer Rāmāyaṇa, known from manuscripts of the sixteenth century onward and…
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- Tattvartha SutraThe Tattvartha Sutra is a concise Sanskrit summary of Jain doctrine composed by Umasvati, and…
- Torave RāmāyaṇaThe Torave Rāmāyaṇa is the best-known Kannada retelling of the epic, composed in the sixteent…
- TripitakaThe Tripitaka is the threefold division of the Buddhist canon into discipline, discourses and…