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| Text | Translator / editor | Language |
|---|---|---|
| Bhagavad Gita | Critical edition, digitized by M. Tokunaga | Sanskrit |
| Bhagavad Gita with 4 classical commentaries (Sridhara, Madhusudana, Visvanatha, Baladeva) | Gaudiya Grantha Mandira | Sanskrit |
| Bhagavad Gita with Ramanujacharya's commentary | A. Govindacharya, 1898 | English |
| Bhagavad Gita with Shankaracharya's commentary | A. Mahadeva Sastri, 1897 | English |
| Ramayan of Valmiki | Ralph T. H. Griffith, 1870–1874 | English |
| Sri Ramcharitmanas | Goswami Tulsidas, c. 1574 | Awadhi (Hindi) |
| Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita | Swami Swarupananda, 1909 | English |
| The Bhagavad Gita (with Sanskrit text) | Annie Besant & Bhagavan Das, 1905 | English |
| The Bhagavadgita (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 8) | Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882 | English |
| The Ramayana (prose) | Manmatha Nath Dutt, 1891–1894 | English |
| The Ramayana of Tulsi Das | F. S. Growse, 1883 | English |
| The Song Celestial (Bhagavad Gita) | Edwin Arnold, 1885 | English |
| Valmiki Ramayana | Critical edition, digitized by M. Tokunaga, rev. John Smith | Sanskrit |
| Valmiki Ramayana, Southern recension (Ayodhya Kanda) | Oliver Hellwig | Sanskrit |
| Adhyatma Ramayana (includes Ram Gita) | Lala Baij Nath, 1913 | English |
| Principal Upanishads (several with Shankara's commentary) | Various contributors | Sanskrit |
| The Upanishads, Part I (SBE 1) | F. Max Müller, 1879 | English |
| The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15) | F. Max Müller, 1884 | English |
| Thirty Minor Upanishads | K. Narayanasvami Aiyar, 1914 | English |
| Yoga Vasishtha | Vihari Lala Mitra, 1891–1899 | English |
| Harivamsa | Critical text, various scholars | Sanskrit |
| Harivamsa (prose) | Manmatha Nath Dutt, 1897 | English |
| Mahabharata (all 18 books) | Critical edition, digitized by M. Tokunaga, rev. John Smith | Sanskrit |
| Prem Sagar | Lallu Lal (Hindi), English tr., 1848 | English |
| Srimad Bhagavata Purana | Gaudiya Grantha Mandira | Sanskrit |
| Srimad Bhagavatam (prose) | Manmatha Nath Dutt, 1895–1896 | English |
| The Mahabharata (complete) | Kisari Mohan Ganguli, 1883–1896 | English |
| The Mahabharata (prose) | Manmatha Nath Dutt, 1895–1905 | English |
| Agni Purana | Manmatha Nath Dutt, 1903–1904 | English |
| Markandeya Purana (includes Devi Mahatmya) | F. E. Pargiter, 1904 | English |
| Puranas in Sanskrit: Agni, Brahma, Brahmanda, Garuda, Kurma, Linga, Markandeya, Matsya (1–176), Narada, Narasimha, Shiva (Books 1 & 7), Skanda (part), Vamana | Various contributors | Sanskrit |
| Srimad Devi Bhagavatam | Swami Vijnanananda, 1921–1922 | English |
| The Garuda Purana (selections) | Ernest Wood & S. V. Subrahmanyam, 1911 | English |
| The Vishnu Purana | H. H. Wilson, 1840 | English |
| Vishnu Purana | Critical text, Peter Schreiner | Sanskrit |
| Kamba Ramayanam | Kambar, 12th c. | Tamil |
| Rig Veda (Sanskrit, Devanagari + romanized) | Sanskrit | |
| The Hymns of the Atharvaveda | Ralph T. H. Griffith, 1895 | English |
| The Laws of Manu (SBE 25) | Georg Bühler, 1886 | English |
| The Rig Veda | Ralph T. H. Griffith, 1896 | English |
| The Sama Veda | Ralph T. H. Griffith, 1895 | English |
| The Texts of the White Yajurveda | Ralph T. H. Griffith, 1899 | English |
| The Yajur Veda (Taittiriya Samhita, Black) | Arthur Berriedale Keith, 1914 | English |
| The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali | Charles Johnston, 1912 | English |
| Vedanta Sutras with Ramanuja's commentary (SBE 48) | George Thibaut, 1904 | English |
| Vedanta Sutras with Shankara's commentary (SBE 34, 38) | George Thibaut, 1890, 1896 | English |
Digital text collections: GRETIL (University of Göttingen), Internet Sacred Text Archive, Internet Archive and Gita Supersite.
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