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| Title | Author / year | Rights | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bhaktivedanta Vedabase: Srimad-Bhagavatam (en) | A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (tr.), BBT · 1975 | Copyrighted | Copyright Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, personal non-commercial use only. Use for verse numbers; never copy translations or purports, and note its Gaudiya Vaishnava standpoint. |
| Devi Bhagavata Purana, Book 3 (Wisdom Library, Swami Vijnanananda translation) unverified | — | Copyrighted | Book 3 chapters 4–6 (Manidvipa episode) returned HTTP 403 on wisdomlib and sacred-texts; content from search listings and encyclopedia snippets only. |
| Devi Mahatmya, chapter 1: the slaying of Madhu and Kaitabha — devimahatmya.com | — | Unknown | Translation site with verse numbers; rights not stated, treat as copyrighted. Dutt's 1896 Markandeya Purana is the public-domain alternative. |
| Garuda Purana (en) | Manmatha Nath Dutt (tr.) · 1908 | Public domain quotable | Public domain; afterlife material and the avatar list; quotable. |
| Hymns for the Drowning: Poems for Visnu by Nammalvar (en) | A. K. Ramanujan (tr.) · 1981 | Copyrighted | Copyrighted; Alvar devotion to Vishnu. Short attributed quotes only; the Tamil originals are free. |
| Hymns of the Rigveda (Griffith, 1896) — sacred-texts.com unverified | R. T. H. Griffith (tr.) · 1896 | Public domain quotable | Returned HTTP 403 during research (Wikisource 404); RV 1.154 verbatim beyond the lines quoted on Wikipedia is unverified. |
| Hymns of the Rigveda, tr. R. T. H. Griffith (1896) — sacred-texts unverified | R. T. H. Griffith (tr.) · 1896 | Public domain quotable | sacred-texts returned 403 and the Wikisource page 404'd; RV 1.114, 2.33, 7.46, 10.92 wording unverified. |
| Internet Archive / Digital Library of India (en) | venue | Unknown | Mixed rights; the 'Public Domain Mark' is applied by uploaders and is unreliable for 1950s Indian books. Use scans of genuinely public-domain works only. |
| Internet Sacred Text Archive (sacred-texts.com) (en) unverified | John Bruno Hare (venue) · 1999 | Unknown | Hosts public-domain translations; the underlying texts are quotable, the site claims its own HTML formatting. Returned 403 in parts of the research pass; verify pages before linking. |
| Linga Purana, chapter 17 — Origin of the Linga (Wisdom Library, J. L. Shastri translation) unverified | — | Copyrighted | Page returned HTTP 403 during research; chapter title confirmed from a search listing only. Chapter wording of the ketaki episode unverified. |
| Markandeya Purana (en) | Manmatha Nath Dutt (tr.) · 1896 | Public domain quotable | Public domain; Devi Mahatmya and the Anasuya material; quotable. |
| Other AITM Puranas (Bhagavata 1950, Padma 1951, Kurma 1951, Brahma 1955) (en) | Motilal Banarsidass (various translators) · 1955 | Unknown | Archive.org marks these public domain but later Motilal editions carry copyright notices; status uncertain, treat as copyrighted and use only for cross-checking. |
| Shiva Purana, Rudra Samhita 23.36-40 — siva.sh | — | Unknown | Verse-level text; rights of the translation not stated. |
| Shivayan (Shibayan) (bn) | Rameswar Bhattacharya; Calcutta University edition 1957 · 1750 | Public domain quotable | The c. 1750 Bengali poem is public domain and may be quoted in the original; the 1957 CU edition's introduction and apparatus are copyrighted. Render lines into English yourself. |
| Skanda Purana, Kashi-khanda chapter 31 — The Manifestation of Bhairava (Wisdom Library) unverified | — | Copyrighted | Page returned HTTP 403; chapter title from a search listing only. |
| Speaking of Siva (en) | A. K. Ramanujan (tr.) · 1973 | Copyrighted | Copyrighted; the Kannada vachanas are public domain but his English is not. Quote a line or two with credit at most; otherwise render the originals yourself. |
| Srimad Bhagavatam (Bhagavata Purana) (en) | Manmatha Nath Dutt (tr.) · 1896 | Public domain quotable | The only complete public-domain English Bhagavata; use it for Vamana and Bali, Narasimha, Dattatreya and the avatar list, quoting with translator and year. |
| Srimad-Bhagavatam (Bhaktivedanta Vedabase), cited by canto.chapter | A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (tr.) | Copyrighted | BBT copyright, personal non-commercial use; used for verse numbers and plot only, never purports. Locators: 3.12, 4.1.15, 7.10, 8.6, 8.7, 8.12, 10.88, 10.89. |
| Srimad-Bhagavatam 10.88 (Bhaktivedanta Vedabase) | A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (tr.) | Copyrighted | |
| Srimad-Bhagavatam 10.89 (Bhaktivedanta Vedabase) | A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (tr.) | Copyrighted | |
| Srimad-Bhagavatam 11.5.32 (Bhaktivedanta Vedabase) | A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (tr.) | Copyrighted | The Chaitanya identification is the Gaudiya commentary's reading, not the verse's plain text. |
| Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.12 (Bhaktivedanta Vedabase) | A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (tr.) | Copyrighted | |
| Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.20 (Bhaktivedanta Vedabase) | A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (tr.) | Copyrighted | BBT copyright; verse numbers only, Gaudiya standpoint; never copy purports. |
| Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.8 — Bhaktivedanta Vedabase | A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (tr.) | Copyrighted | BBT copyright; verse numbers only, never copy purports; Gaudiya standpoint. |
| Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.8 (Bhaktivedanta Vedabase) | A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (tr.) | Copyrighted | |
| Srimad-Bhagavatam 8.12 (Bhaktivedanta Vedabase) | A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (tr.) | Copyrighted | |
| Srimad-Bhagavatam 8.22 (Bhaktivedanta Vedabase) | A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (tr.) | Copyrighted | |
| Srimad-Bhagavatam 8.7 (Bhaktivedanta Vedabase) | A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (tr.) | Copyrighted | BBT copyright; verse numbers only, Gaudiya standpoint; never copy purports. |
| Srimad-Bhagavatam 8.8 (Bhaktivedanta Vedabase) | A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (tr.) | Copyrighted | |
| The Hymns of the Rigveda (en) | R. T. H. Griffith (tr.) · 1896 | Public domain quotable | Public domain; Vedic Vishnu and Rudra hymns, quotable but flag it as a dated translation. |
| The Linga Purana (2 parts) (en) unverified | J. L. Shastri, Motilal Banarsidass · 1951 | Copyrighted | Same status as the Siva Purana: paraphrase only. Linga origin stories and Shiva's 28 avatars. |
| The Linga Purana (2 parts), tr. J. L. Shastri — via Wisdom Library unverified | J. L. Shastri (tr.) · 1951 | Copyrighted | HTTP 403 during research; chapter 17 attribution unverified. |
| The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa (en) | Kisari Mohan Ganguli (tr.) · 1896 | Public domain quotable | 1883–96; the only complete English Mahabharata in the public domain. Quote epic episodes verbatim with credit; also on Wikisource. |
| The Mahabharata, tr. K. M. Ganguli (1883–96) — sacred-texts unverified | K. M. Ganguli (tr.) · 1896 | Public domain quotable | sacred-texts returned 403 during research; Vana/Shalya/Anushasana Parva passages cited via Wikipedia summaries. |
| The Ramayana and Mahabharata condensed into English verse (en) | Romesh C. Dutt · 1899 | Public domain quotable | Public domain abridged verse; short quotable lines with credit. |
| The Ramayana of Valmiki (verse) (en) | Ralph T. H. Griffith (tr.) · 1874 | Public domain quotable | 1870–74, public domain (Griffith d. 1906). Quotable Valmiki to set against Kamban, the Jain and the Southeast Asian tellings. |
| The Siva Purana (4 vols), tr. J. L. Shastri — via Wisdom Library unverified | J. L. Shastri (tr.) · 1950 | Copyrighted | wisdomlib.org returned HTTP 403 during research; samhita/khanda attributions rest on Wikipedia's summaries. Motilal copyright; archive.org PD mark unreliable. |
| The Siva Purana (4 vols, Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology 1–4) (en) | J. L. Shastri (tr./ed.), Motilal Banarsidass · 1950 | Copyrighted | Still sold under copyright; archive.org's 'Public Domain Mark' on 1950s Motilal volumes is uploader-applied and not reliable. Read for story order and detail, then write your own prose; also on wisdomlib.org (403 during research). |
| The Vishnu Purana, Book I ch. 2 — H. H. Wilson (1840) unverified | H. H. Wilson (tr.) · 1840 | Public domain quotable | sacred-texts.com returned HTTP 403 during the research pass; the golden-egg wording is uncited until checked. |
| The Vishnu Purana: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition (en) | H. H. Wilson (tr.) · 1840 | Public domain quotable | Public domain in India and the US (Wilson d. 1860). Quote at any length with translator and year; the footnotes cross-reference other Puranas. Also on archive.org (dli.ministry.24500). |
| Thiruvilaiyadal Puranam (Tamil e-text) (ta) | Paranjothi Munivar; Shaivam.org volunteers | Public domain quotable | The Tamil original is ancient and free to quote; the e-text is a volunteer transcription, so check readings against a printed edition before quoting. |
| Vishnu Puranam (en) | Manmatha Nath Dutt (tr.) · 1896 | Public domain quotable | Plain-prose alternative to Wilson, public domain in both countries (Dutt 1855–1912); quotable with credit. |
| Wikisource (en) | Wikimedia Foundation and contributors | Creative Commons quotable | Proofread public-domain texts with stable links; Wikisource's own additions are CC BY-SA. Preferred for verbatim Ganguli and Griffith. |
| Wisdom Library (wisdomlib.org) (en) unverified | venue | Unknown | Hosts both public-domain texts (Wilson) and copyrighted ones (Shastri, Mani) as free-to-read; check each item's rights and quote only the public-domain ones. Returned 403 during the research pass. |