
The Ramayana (रामायण) also known as Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as an Sanskrit epic) from ancient India, one of…

The Mahabharata (महाभारत) is one of the two major Smriti texts and Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Ramayaṇa. It narrates the events and…

Shiva Samhita (शिव संहिता) is a Sanskrit text on yoga, written by an unknown author. The text consists of five…

The Goraksha Shataka (गोरक्ष शतक) is an early text on Haṭha yoga text from the 11th-12th century, attributed to the sage Gorakṣa.…

The Hatha Yoga Pradipika (हठ योग प्रदीपिका) is a classic fifteenth-century Sanskrit manual on haṭha yoga, written by Swami Swatmarama, who connects the teaching’s lineage to…

The Bhagavad Gita (भगवद्गीता), often referred to as the Gita, is a 700-verse Hindu scripture, which is part of the epic Mahabharata. It forms the chapters…

The Yajnavalkya Smriti (याज्ञवल्क्य स्मृति) is one of the many Dharma-related texts of Hinduism composed in Sanskrit. It is dated between the 3rd to 5th-century…

Vishnu Smriti (विष्णु स्मृति) is one of the latest books of the Dharmaśāstra tradition in Hinduism and the only one which does not deal…

The Vamana Purana (वामन पुराण), is a medieval-era Sanskrit text and one of the eighteen major Puranas of Hinduism. The text is named after one of…