Languages and Texts
General Language and Lexographical Sites
  • Eden's Page
    http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/9594/
    [Charts of Indic scripts.]
  • Human Languages Page
    http://www.june29.com/HLP/
    [A major resource and linking site that connects to dictionaries, language lessons, and many other resources. Regrettably it includes no Indic languages on its search facility.]
  • Languages and Scripts of India
    http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/scripts.html
    [The best-developed site of its kind in English. Maintained by Yashwant K. Malaiya, Professor in the Computer Science Department at Colorado State University, USA.]
  • UK India
    http://www.ukindia.com/
    [Features "Learn to Read" pages for basic skill in Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, and Urdu.]
  • Yamada Web Guides
    http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides.html
    [Resources collected and organized by the Yamada Language Center at the University of Oregon. Indic language guides include Hindi-Urdu, Tamil, and Telegu. Each guide offers information concerning fonts, mailing lists, newsgroups, and web links.]
Language Training Support
  • Hindi Program at Penn
    http://philae.sas.upenn.edu/Hindi/hindi.html
    [A set of teaching resources, including audio files for practice, developed by Surendra Gambhir at the University of Pennsylvania.]
  • Internet Public Library: Hindi
    http://www.ipl.org/youth/hello/hindi.html
    [A very basic, friendly introduction to Hindi language with well-organized links to other sites.]
  • Devanagari Fonts -- for Computer and Web Browser
    http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/devafonts.htm
    [Links from Yashwant K. Malaiya's site (see above) to sites providing font software and plugins for web browsers.]
  • Freeware by Michael Best
    http://www.com.org/~mbest/freeware/
    [Some very useful Devanagari fonts and transliteration fonts for Windows and Apple computers. If your need is not met by these free files, you might check commercial sources such as Linguist Software or the wide range of language software and related products available through WorldLanguage.Com which rightly calls itself "the ultimate language store."]
Dictionaries and Lexicons
  • Capeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary
    http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/indologie/tamil/cap_search.html
    [Provided by the Institut für Indologie und Tamilistik (Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies) at the Universität zu Köln (University of Cologne), Germany. Approximately 50,000 main entries.]
  • Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon
    http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/indologie/tamil/mwd_search.html
    [Provided by the Institut für Indologie und Tamilistik (Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies) at the Universität zu Köln (University of Cologne), Germany.]
  • Your Dictionary.Com
    http://www.yourdictionary.com/
    [Links to a wide range of specialized dictionaries in various languages -- including Indic languages. Useful to get a sense of the diversity of languages and cultures.]
Classical Texts
  • Ashtavakra Gita
    http://www.southasianist.info/india/ashtgita.html
    [A public-domain English translation by John Richards.]
  • Bhagavad Gita
    http://members.aol.com/Jyotishi/gita2nd.html
    [English translation by Dr. Ramananda Prasad.]
  • Bhagavad Gita As It Is
    http://www.krsna.com/gita/
    [ISKCON translation into English by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami.]
  • Bhagavad Gita - Sanskrit Text
    http://www.iconsoftec.com/gita/
    [In PDF (Adobe Acrobat) and Postscript (GhostView) formats.]
  • Dhammapada
    http://www.edepot.com/religion.html
    [Translation into English from Pali by J. Richards.]
  • Heart Sutra
    http://cres.anu.edu.au/~mccomas/heartsutra/
    [Text in Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese, and English translation.]
  • Mahabharata
    http://web.utk.edu/~jftzgrld/MBh1Home.html
    [A resource page maintained by James Fitzgerald for his undergraduate university students.]
Text Collections
  • Buddhist Studies - Texts Input/Translation Projects
    http://members.aol.com/cdpatton/ETexts.html
  • Electronic Bodhidharma (Japan)
    http://www.iijnet.or.jp/iriz/irizhtml/irizhome.htm
    [Site maintained by the International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism in Kyoto. Claims the largest collection of Buddhist electronic texts on the Internet.]
  • Indology: Virtual E-Text Archive of Indic Texts
    http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgadkw/indnet-textarchive.html
  • Scriptures
    http://www.hindunet.org/scriptures/
    [Translated extracts from a range of traditional texts.]
  • Sanskrit Documents
    ftp://jaguar.cs.utah.edu/private/sanskrit/sanskrit.html
    [A source for Sanskrit-language texts, some of them directly relevant to study of Indic culture beyond the basic level.]
  • Selections from the Tipitaka
    http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/index.html
    [Introduction and English translations of sections of the Pali canon of Theravada.]
  • Tantrik Texts
    http://www.religiousworlds.com/mandalam/texts.htm
    [Sanskrit texts in PDF format requiring Adobe Acrobat Reader.]
  • The Vedic Experience
    http://www.himalayanacademy.com/books/vedic_experience/VEIndex.html
    [Online version of an anthology of texts in the Vedic tradition as translated by Raimudo Panikkar.]
  • Wings to Awakening - An Anthology from the Pali Canon
    http://world.std.com/~metta/lib/modern/wings/index.html
    [Online anthology of Pali texts, as translated and explained by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff).]
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