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• Hindu literature ... (The Colonial Press, 1900), by Epiphanius Wilson, Monier Monier-Williams, Edwin Arnold, and Toru Dutt (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Prose English Translation of Vishnupuranam: (Based on Professor H. H. Wilson's translation.), trans. by Manmatha Nath Dutt and H. H. Wilson (Gutenberg ebook)

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• The Iliad of the East; a selection of legends drawn from Valmīki's Sanscrit poem the Ramayāna (John Lane;, 1908), by Frederika Macdonald and Vālmīki (page images at HathiTrust)

• The mediaeval vernacular literature of Hindustan : with special reference to Tul'sī Dās. (s.n., 1889), by George Abraham Grierson (page images at HathiTrust)

• De Vidûsaka in het Indisch tooneel.... (P. Noordhoff, 1897), by Johan Huizinga (page images at HathiTrust)

• An outline of the religious literature of India (H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1920), by J. N. Farquhar (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Little Clay Cart (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1905), by Sudraka, trans. by Arthur W. Ryder (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• The Marcaṇdeya Purāṇa, in the original Sanskrit (Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1862), by Krishna Mohana Banerjea (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Mahâbhârata a paper read before the Hamilton Association, Hamilton, Canada, Dec. 7th, 1887 (s.n.], 1887), by H. B. Witton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bhagavadgītā (multiple editions)
• From the Upanishads (Portland, ME: Thomas R. Mosher, ca. 1899), ed. by Charles Johnston (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa (18 books, published 1883-1896), trans. by Kisari Mohan Ganguli (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Matsya Puranam (2 volumes reprinted from a collection of Sacred Books of the Hindus; originally published 1916-1917), trans. by A Taluqdar of Oudh, contrib. by Srisa Chandra Vasu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Permanent History of Bharata Varsha (2 volumes in 3, in English with Sanskrit quotations; Trivandrum: Printed for the author at the Bhaskara Press, 1915-1918), by K. Narayana Aiyar
  • Volume 1 and Volume 2 Part 1: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume 2 Part 1 (1959 reprint): PDF files in India
  • Volume 2 Part 2: TIFF page images in India
• The Rig Veda, trans. by Ralph T. H. Griffith
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • HTML at hinduwebsite.com
• The Satapatha Brahmana (5 volumes, 1882-1900), trans. by Julius Eggeling (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Upanishads, trans. by F. Max Müller (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Upanishads (with commentary), trans. by Swami Paramananda (Gutenberg text)
• The Vedic Experience, ed. by Raimon Panikkar (HTML at himalayanacademy.com)
• Vedic Hymns (2 volumes, 1896-1897), trans. by F. Max Müller and Hermann Oldenberg
  • Part I: HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • Part II: HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
• The Yoga Upanishads, With the Commentary of Sri Upanishad-Brahma-Yogin (in Sanskrit, with English foreword; Chennai: Published for the Adyar library (Theosophical Society), 1920), ed. by Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, contrib. by Upaniṣadbrahmayogi
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • PDF at lukashevichus.info
• The Tattuva-Kattalei, Siva-Gnâna-Pōtham, and Siva-Pirakâsam: Treatises on Hindû Philosophy, Translated From the Tamil, With Introductions and Notes (New Haven: B. L. Hamlen, 1854), ed. by Henry Richard Hoisington (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sacred books of the East described and examined: Hindu series. (Christian Literature Society for India, 1898), by Christian Literature Society for India (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anandasrama Sanskrit series. (Anandasrama Press., in the 19th century) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ēṇiyēr̲r̲am (Vaijayanti Piras, 1913) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Śrī Pakavatkītaiyin̲ Tamil̲ viyākyān̲am (Es. Ji. Aiyar aṇṭu Kampen̲i, 1900), by Vi Kuppucāmi Ayyar and Si. Vi Veṅkiṭarāmayyar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Saṅkśēparāmāyaṇāti sarkasaṅkraham (Kalāratnākara Mutrākṣaracālai, 1923), by Ten̲maṭam Raṅkācāryar and Ciṅkaperumāḷkōvil Irāmān̲ujācāryar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Irāmāyaṇak kummi (Vittiyāratnākara Accukkūṭam, 1905), by Ku Irāmakiruṭṭiiṇkkōn̲ār (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Taittaríya and Aittaréya Upanishads, with the commentary of Sankara Achárya and the gloss of Ananda Giri, and the Swétáswatara Upanishad with the commentary of Sankara Achárya (Printed by J. Thomas, 1850), by Edward Röer, Śaṅkarācārya, and Ānandagiri (page images at HathiTrust)
• From the Upanishads (Whaley, 1896), by Charles Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bhagavadgîtâ, with the Sanatsugâtîya and the Anugîtâ (Clarendon Press, 1882), by Kashinath Trimbak Telang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book of devotion (Aryan Theosophical Press, 1913), by William Quan Judge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Srīmat Kamparāmāyaṇam : teyvīkaṁ poruntiya kaviccakravarttiyākiya kampanāṭṭāl̲vā raruḷicceytatu mutavāvatu pālakaṇtam (880-03 Cen̲n̲ai : Vittiyāratnākar Accukkūṭattir̲ patippikkappaṭṭatu, 1911., 1911), by A. Cuntaranātampiḷḷai Avarkaḷal and active 9th century Kampar (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Prose English Translation of Vishnupuranam: (Based on Professor H. H. Wilson's translation.), trans. by Manmatha Nath Dutt and H. H. Wilson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Bhagavad-Gita: Herrens Sång (in Swedish), trans. by Hjalmar Johannes Runeberg (Gutenberg ebook)
• Bhagavadgita — Des Erhabenen Sang: Religiöse Stimmen der Völker: Die Religion des alten Indien II (in German), trans. by Leopold von Schroeder (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Bhăgvăt-gēētā, or, Dialogues of Krĕĕshnă and Ărjŏŏn (Reprinted for G.P. Philes, 1867), by Charles Wilkins and East India Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Permanent history of Bharata Varsha (Trivandrum], 1915), by K. Narayanaswami Aiyar (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Rig-Veda and Vedic religion : with readings from the Vedas (Christian Literature Society for India, 1913), by A. C. Clayton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Stories for young children from Hindu sacred books. (Central Hindu College, 1907) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020), by Shankar Nair (JSTOR ebook)

• Dīpikā des Nivāsa (J. C. B. Mohr (P. Siebeck), 1916) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cāntōpatēcamañcari (Pen̲rōs Kampen̲i, 1918) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Śrīpadāmr̥tasamudra (Kalikātā Biśvabidyālaẏa, 1391), by Umā Rāẏa and active 18th century Rādhāmohana Ṭhākura (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tiruppullait tiripantāti (Matarās Rippan̲ Accukkūṭam, 1902), by Vēlāmūr Kiruṣṇamācāriyar, Vēlāl̲ar Kiruśṇamācāriyar, Vēlāmūr Kiruśṇamācāriyar, Ariyakkuṭi Cā. Ki Araṅkanātac Ceṭṭiyār, Ariyakkuṭi Le. Rāma Araṅkanātac Ceṭṭiyār, and Ariyakkuṭi Rāma. Cā Araṅkanātac Ceṭṭiyār (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ārtti pirapantam (Śrīnikētan̲a Mutrākṣaracālai, 1916), by Maṇavāḷa Māmun̲i, Piḷḷai Lōkācāryar, and Putuppaṭṭu Tiruvēṅkaṭācāri (page images at HathiTrust)

• Aristophanes (London : William Heinemann Ltd ; New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924., 1924), by Aristophanes and Benjamin Bickley Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Josephus. (Heinemann ;, 1926), by Flavius Josephus and H. St. J. Thackeray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sweden's best stories : an introduction to Swedish fiction : a selection of short stories by Topelius, Strindberg, Ahlgren, Geijerstam, Heidenstam, Levertin, Lagerlöf, Hallström, Molin, Söderberg, Bo Bergman, Engström, Nordström, Elgström, Siwertz, Sillén (American-Scandinavian Foundation :, 1928), by Charles Wharton Stork and Hanna Astrup Larsen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thomas the imposter; a story (D. Appleton and Co., 1925), by Jean Cocteau and Lewis Galantière (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cuneiform parallels to the Old Testament (Eaton & Mains, 1912), by Robert William Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Eclogues & Georgics of Virgil, translated into English verse by T.F. Royds. (J.M. Dent & Sons;, 1924), by Virgil, C. S. Lewis, and Thomas Fletcher Royds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hippocrates (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press ; London : W. Heinemann, 1923-2018., 1923), by Hippocrates, Heraclitus of Ephesus, Wesley D. Smith, Paul Potter, E. T. Withington, W. H. S. Jones, and M.D. Rare Book Collection of Rush University Medical Center at the University of Chicago Stanton A. Friedberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Assyrian and Babylonian literature; selected translations (D. Appleton and Company, 1901), by Robert Francis Harper (page images at HathiTrust)
• The writings of François Rabelais : 1495-1553 (Gibbings & Co., 1901), by François Rabelais, Peter Anthony Motteux, and Thomas Urquhart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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