Websites with text downloads

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> I am looking for websites where I could download scriptural texts either

> in original script of any Indian language (be it Sanskrit, Bengali,

> Telugu, or whatever else) or their transliteration and/or translations in

> any language. File format of the text files doesnt matter.

 

Well, you might start at the Gaudiya Grantha Mandira. This is an ambitiosu

project by Nitai dasa and Jagadananda dasa.

 

Here is the blurb (from Jagat's posting about it):

 

 

Dear friends and prabhus,

For some time now, Neal Delmonico (Nitai Das) and I have been working on an

ambitious project to make all Gaudiya Vaishnava Sanskrit works available in

various formats on the Internet.

 

The site, Gaudiya Grantha Mandir has been up for a while and new texts are

constantly being posted. Indeed, we have quite a number of texts backed up

that need to be proofread and converted into other formats for posting.

 

Already available are Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhakti-rasamrita-sindhu,

Narada-bhakti-sutra, Sandilya-bhakti-sutra, Prameya-ratnävali, Navaratna,

Brahma-samhita, Gopala-tapani Upanishad, a large number of stotras from

Stavali (including Vraja-vilasa-stava and Vilapa-kusumanjali) and Stavamala

(including Utkalika-vallari and Karpanya-panjika), Krishna-karnamrita,

Mukunda-mala, Uddhava-sandesa, Hamsaduta, Megha-duta (by Kalidas),

Amaru-sataka, Padyavali, Sankalpa-kalpa-druma by Jiva Goswami,

Caitanya-candramrita by Prabodhananda. Jayadeva's Gitagovinda.

 

Some chapters of other books have also been posted, such as Murari Gupta's

Caitanya-charitamrita, Kavikarnapur's Ahnika-kaumudi, Vishwanath's

Krishna-bhavanamrita, etc. Several chapters of the Bhagavad-gita

commentaries of Sridhar, Baladeva and Vishwanath.

 

Finished but not posted are Jiva Goswami's six sandarabhas (all six are

complete), Bhakti-rasamrita-sesa, Radha-krishnarchana-dipika, and commentary

to Brahma-samhita. Rupa Goswami's Ujjvala-nilamani, Nataka-candrika,

Laghu-bhagavatamrita, and Dana-keli-kaumudi; Raghunath's Mukta-carita,

Visvanath's Sankalpa-kalpa-druma; Prabodhananda's Radha-rasa-sudha-nidhi and

Nikunja-rahasya-stava, several chapters of Hari-bhakti-vilasa,

Dhyanachandra's Paddhati, Baladeva's Kavya-kaustubha. The second and third

centuries of Krishna-karnamrita, Stotra-ratna by Yamunacharya,

Bhaktivinoda's Godruma-bhajanopadesa and Sva-niyama-dvadasakam,

Radha-premamritam.

 

Works that have been started and at various stages of completion include--

 

Sadukti-karnamrita,

Subhashita-ratna-kosha,

Dasa-rupakam

Sringara-tilaka

Sahitya-darpana

Rasarnava-sudhakara.

Karnapur's Alankara-kaustubha

 

Brihad-bhagavatamrita

Vrindavana-mahimamrita

Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika

Caitanya-candrodaya

Caitanya-carita-mahakavya,

Gopala-campu,

Sadhana-dipika,

Gauranga-lila-smarana-mangala-stotra by Bhaktivinoda,

Govinda-lilamrita,

Pancatantram

Ascarya-rasa-prabandha by Prabodhananda.

Lalitamadhava

Vidagdhamadhava

 

....and many more.

 

 

As you can see from this list, we are not restricting ourselves exclusively

to Gaudiya works, though we are giving precedence to them.

 

What we really need is some help!!! Anyone out there with a little time on

his or her hands who knows how to read Sanskrit in either Bengali or

Devanagari scripts and who can type in any transliteration system, or is

capable of proofreading already completed texts, and would like to render a

service to the Vaishnava community for all eternity, is invited to

communicate with either Nitai (ndelmonico (AT) cableone (DOT) net) or myself

(janbrz (AT) videotron (DOT) ca).

 

If someone wants to help managing the website by uploading finished or

updated files, etc., that might also be a possibility.

 

Thank you! Jaya Radhe!!