Religious studies - Hinduism. 1. Useful links

As I embark on swimming the oceans of Hindu religious texts, it's useful to take an important tool along for this journey. That tool is knowledge of the Sanskrit language, which I unfortunately am lacking in. Thankfully my native language Telugu has a close relationship with Sanskrit, and thus I'm able to figure out quite a few simple words, however for the heavy ones I have no choice but to rely on dictionaries.

Here's a useful site that I found for the purpose:
http://spokensanskrit.org

About the site 

(This copy below has been obtained from the site itself, happy to delete this should the site owners have an objection to the same)

This is VERSION 2.1 of a hypertext Sanskrit-English / English-Sanskrit Dictionary for Spoken Sanskrit.


spokensanskrit.de, now spokensanskrit.org, was founded in 2005 as a nonprofit enterprise in Cochin, India, by Sri Chidambaram Narayanaswami († 2016) and Klaus Glashoff with the support of many voluntary contributors. 

Responsible:

Klaus Glashoff, Lugano (Switzerland)

Content:

Sam Mohan, Boston (USA)

Webdesign:

Doris Eckstein, Lugano (Switzerland)

Database design:

Julian Glashoff, Hamburg (Germany)

Program version 2 (2017)

Klaus Glashoff,Lugano (Switzerland)

Alessandro Gallo, Torino (Italy)

Green and Latin roots

Here's a link to PDF that has a list of Greek and Latin roots to the English language, another tool that may come in handy:   Greek and Latin roots   Source: Oakton community college


PDF Sources  

The following are some links where I have found and downloaded some PDFs which I hope to read. Co-mingled are a few other interesting links. Now as I write this, I don't remember what each specific link is particularly about. However, as I go through them, I'll update this post with more detail and also reference them as I share more posts following this.  

The first book that I'm currently reading is:
Hindu Dharma  (clicking on this link will result in the PDF download)

from the site vedamu.org. 
 
Other links that I hope to follow with soon are listed here. 
http://www.vedamu.org/CreationVideos.aspx
http://www.vedamu.org/LearnSanskrit.aspx

http://upanishads.jnanajyoti.com/
http://www.cakravartin.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/vedas.pdf
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/mesaas/languages/sanskrit/resources.html
http://www.indian-heritage.org/alangaram/kolams/kolams.htm
http://www.scipress.org/journals/forma/pdf/2201/22010031.pdf
http://www.srisathyasai.org.in/pdf/upanishad_vahini.pdf
https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol/vedol/00https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol_english_meaning_index/vedol/7
https://www.ancient.eu/The_Vedas/
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/hindu2/2016/03/vedas-the-4-vedas-in-hindi-english-telugu-pdf-download/
https://www.vedicbooks.net/
http://www.trinity-health.org/documents/Ethics/4%20Religious%20Traditions/Hinduism/Hindu.pdf


Happy reading!

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