RLAR 737 - Topics in Asian Religions / Puranas

The Epic and Puranic Bibliography On-Line publishes the work of over a decade of the "Tübingen Purana-Project." The on-line bibliography contains all entries of the printed version Epic and Puranic Bibliography (up to 1985) annotated and with indexes (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1992) as well as the yet unpublished work of the second phase and the new entries which are now added to the more than 13,000 entries available from the first two phases.

Dr. Greg Bailey of La Trobe University has crafted the Oxford Bibliography of the Puranas. This bibliography provides an introduction and general overview of the Puranas, as well as detailing information on how to orient oneself to the Puranas via indices of subjects/names, editions, translations, the genre, methods of study, and reception.

For digitized versions of the Puranas in Sanskrit, there is GRETIL (Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages). For information on the various formats/encodings, please see the Introduction: http://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretinfo.htm

This is a digitized version of V. Mani's 1975 "Puranic encyclopaedia: a comprehensive dictionary with special reference to the epic and Puranic literature." Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass.
This text is provided by the Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies at Cologne University: http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/

This is a digitized version of V.R. Ramachandra Dikshitar's "The Puraṇa Index." Madras, Univ. of Madras, 1995 reprint.
This text is provided by the Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies at Cologne University: http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/

ARTSTOR is an image database that features images from museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists. A search for "Purana" yields digitized images of various episodes from the Puranas.

The Bibliography of Asian Studies is a good source for scholarly research on the Puranas. The database has citations from 1992 to present and is comprehensive for AAS publications from 1971-1991.

This database can be searched for scholarly work on the Puranas from 1949 to present.

A journal published since 1959 by the All India Kashiraj Trust . Volumes of this publication can be found at both Pitts Theology Library and the Woodruff Library. It is also available through inter-library loan (ILL).

Hathi Trust provides long-term preservation and access to content in the public domain and in copyright. It is a particularly helpful resource for translations of the Puranas from the nineteenth century.

Check Archive.org for open access to some translations of the puranas, such as the Devi Bhagavatam.

The AITM series is one of the most widely available resources for contemporary translations of the Puranas into English.

This is another resource for contemporary translations of the Puranas into English. For Puranas that are not in Emory's collection, please request via inter-library loan (ILL). Emory's ability to acquire texts from overseas via ILL varies from institution to institution.

This is another resource for contemporary translations of the Puranas into English. For Puranas that are not in Emory's collection, please request via inter-library loan (ILL). Emory's ability to acquire texts from overseas via ILL varies from institution to institution.

Brill's Groningen Oriental Series has a translation of the Skandapurana. Emory has some of this text in hardcopy and some via online access.