The Digital Library of India initiative has scanned and placed online, over 250,000 books on various subjects. They are available free of cost from two separate collections housed at IIIT and IISc. About 20,000 books touch upon Indology, Sanskrit literature and Hindu religious texts, including the Vedas and other scriptures. A lot of them are rare and not available elsewhere and come from many places like the TTD/RSVP Sanskrit university at Tirupati, Sringeri Math etc. PR Labs has been providing free software to easily find and download rare books from the DLI. One click install- One click downloads. You can directly get neatly formatted Adobe PDF books using this program.
DLI Downloader uses a smart downloading engine and has a number of new optimization, data integrity and fault tolerance features in order to cope with the servers of DLI sites.
For further details, visit http://dlidownloader.wordpress.com/ or http://www.dlidownloader.blogspot.com/
If you find any bugs, please email: dli.downloader[[at]]yahoo.com
Links to download DLI Downloader
www.sanskritdocuments.org/scannedbooks/dlidownloader OR from here
This blog is a terrific resource for anyone who wants to learn or work with Sanskrit. Thank you for putting this up. It has really helped me tremendously. Keep up the good work.
I Want to download Sanskrit Litrarure.
Surjeet,
You may follow the instructions given below.
1. Visit the blog http://dlidownloader.wordpress.com/ and download the software “DLI Downloader”.
2. Install it in your computer. Pl read the instructions given at the blog and also the manual carefully.
3. Now, you may go to Digital Library of India – Hyderabad centre (http://dli.iiit.ac.in/) or Bangalore centre (http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/index.html.en)
4. Search for the books by selecting your desired language, title, author’s name, etc.
5. Now, you may download with the DLI Downloader any book of your choice by copying and pasting the bar code and selecting the DLI Centre.
I hope this info is sufficient for your purpose.
I tried downloading a few sanskrit books with DLI downloader…but it was downloading it in the .tif (image) format instead of pdf and also it is downloading every single page separately. Please suggest me a way out.
thank you
Vijaya Krishna Rani,
DLI downloader downloads each pages as a TIFF image and then converts them into a single PDF in the end. Did you wait till the download was complete? If so, you would have seen this. The PDF is added to the destination folder of your choice. Please refer to the help file for details.
I am using a batch-download software to download the images and use Adobe Acrobat Pro to convert them into a single PDF. The DLI Server is containing only scanned images of each page of the book. So, there is no other way. When you use a software such as DLI Downloader, it does all the work. That is the only difference.
Namaskaram,
I am looking for samskritha essays or books on all Indian festivals’ (mahaatmeeyam).
Venkata Subramaniam,
I have sent you by email a book on Sanskrit essays. It is a copyrighted book. So, please do not share it publicly.
VS Apte’s “The Student’s Guide to Sanskrit Composition” is available online at http://www.payer.de/apte/apte00.htm
It will be very useful to you for improving your Sanskrit writing skill.
regards
shankara
please give me information regarding Ayurvedic literature.
http://is1.mum.edu/vedicreserve/
धन्यवाद .बहूत बड़ी सेवा की है आपने .
I need Sanskrit text Mahabharata with English translation
As far as I know, there are no such editions of Mahabharata with Sanskrit text and English translation in the open domain. And only open domain books can be shared in such blogs. But Sanskrit text and English translation are available separately at http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/maha/index.htm
Pranam
JAI MATA KI
I want ebook on Yoni Tantra. If somebody can help me.
Regards
Dr Sandeep Menon,
I have sent you link to its English translation. I could not find its Sanskrit text.
This blog is one of the Greatest Resources of Sanskrit Literature on the Internet. Thank you very much. Thanks.
urs books is very important for me
thank q
+3 2nd year arts(Hon)sanskrit book require
I am grateful to your effort. Dear sir can I find ” छान्दॊग्य ब्राह्मण” anywhere ?
Sharat Bhat,
Chandogya Brahmana is available at DLI (Digital Library of India) which has a very vast collection of Sanskrit books. Only problem is that the titles are wrongly spelt by the data entry workers. The meta data of the book is:
chhaandoogyabraahmand-amuu., 2990100072904. shrii durgaamoohanabhat’t'aachaaryaind-a. 1958. sanskrit. LANGUAGE. LINGUISTICS. LITERATURE. 256 pgs.
You could download it using DLI Downloader (which could be located through Google search). Please write to me if you find it difficulty to get the book the DLI.
धन्योऽस्मि ।
I am looking for e-sanskrit books sites for
downloading of ancient sanskrit astrologic
classics. Please help
many thanks
N.Balsubramanian
Balasubramanian,
The best and largest source is DLI (Digital Library of India). There are lots of astrology books at archive.org too. If you know the titles, you may search these two sites and download books to your content. You could make use of DLI Downloader for downloading books from DLI.