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General resources of interest to indologists

• [Jambudvipa: Indology and Sanskrit Studies]

  Paulo Magnone's website, offering Sanskrit e-texts (subhasitas, Somadeva's Vetalapamsavimsati), and links to scholarly publications etc.

• [Bulgarian website on indological topics]

  By Peter Stankov.

• [Kamat's Potpourri]

• [Survey of Manuscripts in India]

• [List of Sanskrit and Indological Research Institutes in India]

  Originally provided by the [Himalayan Academy], but removed from their website in 2004.

• Report of the Sanskrit Commission 1956-57

  A defining moment in the history of Sanskrit. Government of India report on the language. The Report was removed from the Government of India's Department of Education website in 2003 or earlier. [For the Report of the Sanskrit Commission 1956-57 (archived version) follow this link, WayBackMachine].

• [Sacred Texts: Hinduism]

  A collection of indological e-texts (English), including Griffiths' RV, Samaveda, and Bloomfield's Yajurveda and Atharvaveda, and standard trs. of the Upanishads, Manu, Dharmasutras, Yogasutras, etc. Includes a Sanskrit dictionary (Skt-Eng).

• [Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies Bibliography], by Karl Potter

• [Danish Hinduism site]

• [Vedic Mathematics]

  Contemporary work inspired by Bharati Krishna Tirthaji's book Vedic Mathematics .

• [Archive of Indological Resources Online] maintained by [Gudrun Bühnemann]

• [Avesta - Zoroastrian Archives]

• [Full text of several Asian studies journals]

  Provided by the [Center for Buddhist Studies, National Taiwan University] A number of searchable full-text Asian studies journals (Philosophy E & W, ABORI, JRAS, JAOS, etc.) focussing broadly on articles related to Buddhist studies.

• [Internet Indian History Sourcebook]

  A remarkable project by [Paul Halsall] , which provides a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts.

• [Sanskrit grammatical declension training]

  by Michael Bunk.

• [The latest discoveries: Harappa 1995-98] by JM Kenoyer and RH Meadow.

• [Kerala Tourism site]

  A collection of informative information about Kerala past and present.

• [Indian Languages Web Site]

  A collection of links to magazines and other information presented in several of the scripts of South Asia. Nicely done, but its authors appear to believe it is the first site to present information in Indian scripts.

• [Eden Golshani's Indian Scripts page]

  A collection of parallel tables of Indian writing systems, and other script-related resources.

• [South Asia Net]

  The South Asia Search Engine: a collection of academic, commercial, and informational links relating to S. Asia. Its manifesto claims that,

  SouthAsia - the most under-valued, the most misunderstood region of the world - is about to make its mark on the world economy, the global culture and a new compassionate civilization where languages, people, colors, cultures meet and create a beautiful rainbow of bright future.

• [Circulation of fire in the Veda]

  An essay by A. Hayakawa on aspects of Agni in the RV.

• [1998 Kumbha Mela home page]

• [South Asian Diaspora Studies]

  from the University of California, Berkeley.

• [SARAI: South Asia Resource Access on the Internet]

  Maintained by David Magier and the Columbia University Area Studies department.

• [Languages and Scripts of India]

  by Y. Malaiya. A stunning Website devoted to the Languages and Scripts of India which includes links to several manuscript illustrations.

• [Gerard Huet's Indological pages]

  Includes his freely available Sanskrit-French Dictionary.

• [John Smith's Web Site]

  Includes revised versions of the Tokunaga Mahabharata and Ramayana e-texts (with a discussion of the issues facing a user of these e-texts), fonts and text processing utilities, as well as the text of the Rajasthani Pabuji epic, with accompanying illustrations.

• [Hindi teaching programme at the University of Pennsylvania]

• [ITRANS Song book]

• [Sanskrit Bharati Home Page]

  ``Not the Professor Higgins, author of Spoken Sanskrit?'' 
  --- Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion .
  An excellent update to these pages which emphasize the ``speak Sanskrit'' movement. Also a source of newly created graded Sanskrit teaching materials which use modern language-teaching methods.

• [The WWW Virtual Library: Asian Studies -- India]

  Includes links to everything Indian you can imagine.

• [Tamil.Net, a Tamil cybercommunity]

• [Electronic Tamil Library]

  Includes a library of downloadable Tamil texts, software, etc., and links to many other important sites.

• [Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialen (TITUS)]

  Notices of several projects and people involved in Indo-european studies, as well as lists of Sanskrit and other language e-texts (but apparently not the texts themselves).

• [Hindu Tantrik Home Page]

• [Dvaita Vedanta Home Page] by Shrisha Rao.

• [Advaita Vedanta Home Page] by S. Vidyasankar.

• [SiddhaMed]:

  This is a space for learning about Siddha medicine, both its history and contemporary practice. It is open to practitioners, scholars and researchers as well as people who are interested in receiving Siddha medicine treatments. This serves as a hub for resources about Siddha medicine including: writings, interviews, practitioner listings, a forum for discussion, bibliographic references, and links to websites.