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3,111 texts on 133 shelves. The same text sits on more than one — a Kavacham to Durgā is both a kavacha and a Durgā text — so pick whichever question you are actually asking.

By Deity

Grouped the way the tradition groups itself — by sampradāya, the stream of worship a text belongs to.

Gāṇapatya

Scriptures & Long Works

The scriptures themselves, and the stotras drawn out of them.

By Form of Text

What kind of text it is — the shape the devotion takes, whatever the deity.

Saints & Acharyas

Composed by, or sung to, the teachers and sant-poets.

Sects

The lines of transmission — who a teacher stands in succession to.

By Author

Who wrote it — a fourth axis the corpus already carried and nothing asked for. Śaṅkara's hundred-and-fourteen works are a Śiva stotra, a Devī stotra and a Vedānta primer side by side, related by nothing but the hand that wrote them.

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By Language

Verse composed in the language of its region — not Sanskrit rendered in another script. Every text on this site is already readable in nine scripts.

By Festival

What is read on the day, in the order it is read. Each page names the tithi rather than a date — the date is a pañchāṅga reckoning and differs by region.

नवरात्रि Navratri

Navaratri · Durga Puja · Sharad Navratri

महाशिवरात्रि Maha Shivaratri

Mahashivratri · Shivratri · Shivaratri

गणेश चतुर्थी Ganesh Chaturthi

Ganesh Utsav · Vinayaka Chaturthi · Ganeshotsav

दीपावली Diwali

Deepavali · Lakshmi Puja · Dhanteras

श्रीकृष्ण जन्माष्टमी Krishna Janmashtami

Janmashtami · Gokulashtami · Krishna Jayanti

श्रीराम नवमी Rama Navami

Ram Navami · Sri Rama Navami

हनुमान जयंती Hanuman Jayanti

Hanuman Jayanthi · Anjaneya Jayanti · Hanumath Jayanti

गुरु पूर्णिमा Guru Purnima

Vyasa Purnima · Guru Poornima

वसंत पंचमी Vasant Panchami

Basant Panchami · Saraswati Puja · Sri Panchami

स्कन्द षष्ठी Skanda Shashti

Kanda Sashti · Soorasamharam · Subrahmanya Shashti

दत्त जयंती Datta Jayanti

Dattatreya Jayanti · Datta Jayanthi

होली Holi

Holika Dahan · Phalguna Purnima · Rangapanchami

नाग पंचमी Nag Panchami

Naga Panchami · Nagula Chavithi

रथ सप्तमी Ratha Saptami

Magha Saptami · Surya Jayanti · Makar Sankranti

एकादशी Ekadashi

Vaikuntha Ekadashi · Nirjala Ekadashi · Devshayani Ekadashi

वट सावित्री Vat Savitri

Vat Purnima · Vata Savitri Vrat · Savitri Brata

अय्यप्प मण्डल पूजा Ayyappa Mandala Puja

Sabarimala Season · Mandala Kalam · Makaravilakku

By Intent

What a text is traditionally recited for. Each page leads with the works the tradition names for the purpose.

For Study

For reading beneath the translation: texts with every word of every verse separated out, transliterated and glossed, and a few that go on into grammar and metre.

New to the reading depths? How to read a stotra here.

Everything Else

Shelves that belong to no single axis.

Every Shelf, A–Z

All 133 collections, including the cantos, chapters and forms nested inside the ones above.

Looking for one text by name? Try the A–Z indexor the 500 most chanted.