Sanskrit Documents

books / courses:

Refer to a list of bookstores which is updated on more regular basis. The following list is a part of it and is provided here as it was prepared earlier. No preferential selection is intended

Divine Life Society - Numerous books for free online viewing and download - in PDF format (using Acrobat 3.0). Also check out the Home Pages and the various links for soothing words - "God has given us a great gift in the form of this human body. The only purpose of this human birth, which is very difficult to get, is to realize God ... May God bless you with unhampered spiritual progress and attainment of Bliss, Peace and Illumination".
ChinmayaAnanda - Chinmaya Mission was formed in 1953 in India after Swami Chinmayananda's first series of talks held in Madras, India by a group of devotees. Chinmaya means Bliss that is of the nature of Pure Knowledge. CHIT=Knowledge, MAYA=Pure/Full, ANANDA=Bliss = Pure Bliss of Knowledge. Bhagavada Gita & other Gita books, Upanishhads, general books, stotras & vedantic texts, mananam series, meditation, travelogue, biography, children's books.
Vedanta Society of Southern California - traces back to Swami Vivekananda's visit to Los Angeles in the late 1890s when he stayed with the Mead sisters in their South Pasadena home. Thirty years later, one of the sisters, Mrs. Carrie Mead Wyckoff, became acquainted with Swami Prabhavananda, a young monk sent to America by the Ramakrishna Order of India. During that time, Mrs. Wyckoff had a house tucked away in the Hollywood hills which she offered to the swami as a gift.
The Vedanta Catalog - Wide variety of books of yoga, vedanta, sanatana dharama, shankara, bhagavada Gita, the shastras, dictionaries, sanskrit and English books, sanskrit script books of scriptures in Indian / Western printings. Large collection of books on other major religions.
Sanskrit - Courses, Books and Hinduism.
DK Agencies - Books, journals, continuations, series, reports, seminar/conference proceedings, social sciences, humanities, science and technology, English, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Hindi and other vernaculars.
Eastern Book Corporation caters to the need of researchers and scholars on Indian Studies. It offers Books from India at cheapest prices on various subjects like Religion, Philosophy, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sanskrit, etc.
Many of the correspondence courses with links and details are listed in FAQ and learning_tools sections of the Sanskrit Documents site.
A list of institutions worldwide offering Sanskrit courses is available at http://imp.lss.wisc.edu/~gbuhnema/study.html. The list is compiled by Professor Gudrun Bühnemann of Madison, Wisconsin.