# Rig Veda & Sanskrit ## Translation Newest translation: Jamison & Brereton. Here's a free pdf: https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/093cT43HChzJ_SatEhyPVVqPA#s-jamison-j-brereton2014 or here: https://libgen.rocks/ads.php?md5=134bc4427fe7277b007cd2467155c02a They also wrote a book about it together. Here's a pdf: https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/0fahdzTFKE56xZJxSnk30ruWw#s-jamison-j-brereton2020 or here: https://libgen.rocks/ads.php?md5=71e091873670127fae5a3c73cc40bc73 ## Online Text https://vedaweb.uni-koeln.de/rigveda/view/id/1.1.1 - Click "Toggle Content", Only the following things are really worth toggeling, switch everything else off: - Van Nooten & Holland - Padapatha (show the lexical/unconjugated/undeclined version of each word) - Griffith - MacDonell - Oldenberg - Morphological Glossing - Dictionaries ## Grammars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit_grammar https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sanskrit_Grammar_(Whitney) https://sanskritstudio.wordpress.com/ Vedic sanskrit is very similar to Classical sanskrit, all the dictionaries and resrouces are for Classical except UT's site <https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol_toc/vedol>. That site says "Ancient Sanskrit was very different". You'll find that that is an overstatement. ## Dictionaries http://sanskrit.segal.net.br/ https://sanskrit.inria.fr/DICO/index.fr.html You can often simply search google for "wiktionary TERM" and it'll show up. Ex. "wiktionary vṛka" shows wiktionary's page on "वृक" as the second link down. Great for seeing the historical etymology. ## Misc - https://www.wisdomlib.org - The most popular transliteration scheme in academia is called "IAST" <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Alphabet_of_Sanskrit_Transliteration> - My website has some stuff you might find interesting: <https://indo-european.wiki/rv> - There is an overwhelming amount of Sanskrit literature, and a great deal more Vedic literature than you might think. Here's some guides: <https://www.google.com/search?q=vedic+texts+scriptures+list&tbm=isch> - Here's a cheap paperback collection to vedic literature with older translations: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541294718 - There are some very detailed parsed editions of sanskrit texts out there. Here's a couple: - <https://libgen.rocks/ads.php?md5=f66bd185ec62fb4158f5631f13bd3ed7> - <https://libgen.rocks/ads.php?md5=12bddd418d78489c02920d83e5e3a06b>