Languages

Explore India's literary heritage across 42 languages—each with its own tradition, style, and voice.

English

714 Works
A Bibliography of the Sanskrit Drama
Montgomery Schuyler Jr.
A brief history of the 3rd Battalion, 1st Punjab Regiment (formerly 76th Punjabis)
Anonymous
A Bottle in the Smoke: A Tale of Anglo-Indian Life
Rae, Janet Milne
+ 711 more

Sanskrit

208 Works
A Digest of Hindu Law: Inheritance, Partition, and Adoption
Raymond West, Georg Bühler
A Prose English Translation of Vishnupuranam: (Based on Professor H. H. Wilson's translation.)
Unknown
A Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary
Arthur Anthony Macdonell
+ 205 more

Hindi

27 Works
1. Bhikshu-pratimoksha, 2. Bhikshuna Pratimoksha, 3. Mahabagga, 4. Chullabagga
Sanskrityan, Rahul
Atharvaveda (Saunaka Recension)
Visha Bandhu
Bharatendu Ke Nibandh (Essays of Bharatendu)
Bharatendu Harishchandra
+ 24 more

Bengali

17 Works
A Dictionary Of The Bengali Language
Carey, W.
Chaitanya's Life and Teachings
Jadunath Sarkar (translator/editor), Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmi (original author)
Girish Granthabali (Collected Plays)
Girish Chandra Ghosh
+ 14 more

Tamil

15 Works
Complete Poems of Subramania Bharati
Subramania Bharati
Kamba Ramayanam
Kambar
Kāñcippurāṇam
Civañāṇa Muṉivar, active 18th century
+ 12 more

German

9 Works
Bhagavadgītā – Des Erhabenen Sang
Leopold von Schroeder (translator)
Das Heim und die Welt
Tagore, Rabindranath
Der Gärtner
Tagore, Rabindranath
+ 6 more

Pali

9 Works
Buddhist Birth-Stories (Jataka Tales)
T.W. Rhys Davids, Caroline Rhys Davids
Buddhist Birth Stories; or, Jataka Tales Volume 1
V. Fausbøll (editor), T. W. Rhys Davids (translator)
Dhammapada (Path of Dharma)
The Buddha
+ 6 more

Kannada

8 Works
Epigraphia Carnatica
B. Lewis Rice, Mysore Department of Archaeology
Epigraphia Carnatica, Volume 4
Mysore Department of Archaeology, B. Lewis Rice
ಜೀವನದಿ (Jeevanadi)
A. N. Krishnarao
+ 5 more

French

8 Works
État civil, politique et commerçant du Bengale (Volumes 1-2)
William Bolts
La jeune Inde
Gandhi, Mahatma
Le jardinier d'amour
Tagore, Rabindranath
+ 5 more

Prakrit

7 Works
Acharanga Sutra (The First Jain Agama)
Mahavira
Epigraphia Indica, Volume 2
Archaeological Survey of India, Devadatta Ramakrishna Bhandarkar
Gommatsara Jīva-kāṇḍa (Volume 5)
Shri Nemichandra Siddhanta Chakravarti (10th century), Translated by J. L. Jaini
+ 4 more

Telugu

5 Works
Āndhra Mahābhāratamu (The Telugu Mahabharata)
Nannaya Bhattaraka
Raghudayamu (రఘూదయము)
Tripurana Venkata Suryaprasada Rayakavi, Edited by Purana Suryanarayana Tirtha
Sankirtan of Annamayya (Selected Compositions)
Annamayya, Annamacharya
+ 2 more

Persian

5 Works
A Grammar of the Persian Language
Sir William Jones
Riyaz-us-Salatin: A History of Bengal
Ghulam Husain Salim, tr. Maulavi Abdus Salam
Siraj-ul-Wahhaj (The Brilliant Lamp)
Sirajuddin Ali Khan Arzu
+ 2 more

Marathi

4 Works
Dasbodh (Spiritual Instruction to a Disciple)
Samarth Ramdas
Dnyaneshwari (Bhāvārtha Dīpikā)
Sant Dnyaneshwar
Tukārām Gāthā (Abhangas of Sant Tukaram)
Sant Tukaram
+ 1 more

Gujarati

4 Works
Devotional Poems of Mirabai
Mirabai
Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Home Rule (Hind Swaraj)
Mohandas K. Gandhi
+ 1 more

Ardhamagadhi

3 Works
Acharanga Sutra (The First Jain Agama)
Mahavira
Kalpa Sutra (Scripture on Monastic Discipline and Sacred Biography)
Bhadrabahu
Sutrakritanga (The Second Jain Agama)
Mahavira

Arabic

3 Works
Alberuni's India (Kitab al-Hind)
Al-Biruni, Eduard Sachau (Translator)
The Travels of Ibn Battuta
Ibn Battuta, H.A.R. Gibb ()
The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume I
Sir William Jones

Italian

3 Works
Antiche relazioni dell'Indie e della China di due maomettani
Abu Zayd Hasan ibn Yazd al-Sirafi, Sulaymān al-Tājir, Eusèbe Renaudot
Storia do Mogor: Mogul India 1653-1708
Niccolò Manucci, ed. William Irvine
The Travels of Marco Polo: India Sections
Marco Polo, Henry Yule (Editor/)

Braj Bhasha

3 Works
Devotional Poems of Mirabai
Mirabai
Kavitavali
Tulsidas
Sursagar (Ocean of Sur) - Selected Compositions
Surdas

Ancient Greek

3 Works
Indica
Megasthenes
The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
Anonymous, tr. Wilfred H. Schoff
The Racial History of India
Chandra Chakraberty

Malayalam

2 Works
1829 Malayalam New Testament
Benjamin Bailey
Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇaṃ Kilipattu
Thunchath Ezhuthachan

Chinese

2 Works
A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms
Faxian (Fa-hien), James Legge (translator)
Si-yu-ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World
Xuanzang (Hsüan-tsang), tr. Samuel Beal

Urdu

2 Works
Islam in India, or The Qānūn-i Islām
Ja'far Sharīf, tr. G.A. Herklots
Kulliyat-e-Fani (Collected Poems)
Fani Badayuni

Dutch

2 Works
Journael van de Reysen naar Oost-Indien
Sir Thomas Roe
Sesde reys van de Engelsche Maatschappy na Oost-Indien
Sir Henry Middleton, Nicholas Downton

Greek

1 Work
A concordance to the Greek Testament : according to the texts of Westcott and Hort, Tischendorf, and the English revisers
Moulton, W. F. (William Fiddian), 1835-1898, Geden, Alfred Shenington, 1857-1932

Tibetan

1 Work
A Tibetan-English Dictionary
Heinrich August Jäschke

Chagatai Turkic

1 Work
The Bābur-nāma (Memoirs of Bābur)
Ẓahīr-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Bābur, tr. Annette Susannah Beveridge

Swedish

1 Work
Bhagavad-Gita: Herrens Sång
Unknown

Various

1 Work
Bibliotheca Indica, Volume 96
Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal

Manipuri (Meitei)

1 Work
Cheitharol Kumbaba (Royal Chronicle of Manipur)
Lairenmayum Ibungohal Singh

Rajasthani

1 Work
Devotional Poems of Mirabai
Mirabai

Spanish

1 Work
El libro de las tierras vírgenes
Kipling, Rudyard

Hindustani

1 Work
An Introduction to the Hindustani Language
John Shakespear

Portuguese

1 Work
Morte de Yaginadatta
Valmiki, Cândido de Figueiredo

Sanskrit with Hindi translation

1 Work
Nāradīya Śikṣā (Narada's Treatise on Phonetics and Musical Sound)
Attributed to Sage Narada, Edited by Dr. Keshavchaitanya Kunte

Awadhi

1 Work
Ramcharitmanas
Tulsidas

Odia

1 Work
Sarala Mahābhārata (The Odia Mahabharata)
Sarala Dasa

Punjabi

1 Work
The Sikh Religion: Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors (Six Volumes)
Max Arthur Macauliffe

Japanese

1 Work
Tateyō Indo (立てよ印度)
Yone Noguchi

Tulu

1 Work
Tulu-English and English-Tulu Dictionary
A. Maenner

Maithili

1 Work
Songs of Vidyapati (Bangiya Padabali)
Vidyapati

Sanskrit with English translation

1 Work
The Viṣṇudharmottara Purāṇa (Part III): Painting and Image-Making
Ancient text, Translated by Stella Kramrisch

Kashmiri

1 Work
Kashmiri Lyrics
J. L. Kaul (Translator)