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Data and reference sources
| Source | Licence | Attribution |
|---|---|---|
| Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, Religious affiliation in Australia, Table 4 | CC-BY-4.0 | Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, 'Religious affiliation in Australia' (Table 4), CC BY 4.0. |
| Art Institute of Chicago | CC0-1.0 | Art Institute of Chicago, public-domain image (CC0) |
| The Queen of Sheba and Her Only Son Menyelek (Kebra Nagast), tr. E. A. Wallis Budge (1922), Internet Archive scans | PD | The Queen of Sheba & Her Only Son Menyelek: A Complete Translation of the Kebra Nagast, by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge (London: The Medici Society, 1922). Public domain. Text read from scans of the 1922 printing on the Internet Archive (University of California Libraries; Oxford Oriental Institute copy digitized by Google). |
| Bird-Parliament, tr. Edward FitzGerald, in Letters and Literary Remains vol. 2 (1889), Internet Archive scans | PD | “A Bird's-Eye View of Farid-uddin Attar's Bird-Parliament,” by Edward FitzGerald, in Letters and Literary Remains of Edward FitzGerald, ed. William Aldis Wright, vol. 2 (London: Macmillan, 1889). Public domain. Text read from scans on the Internet Archive (University of Toronto; University of California Libraries). |
| Masnavi i Ma'navi, tr. and abridged by E. H. Whinfield, 2nd ed. (1898), Internet Archive scan | PD | Masnavi i Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-'d-Dín Muhammad i Rúmí, translated and abridged by E. H. Whinfield, 2nd edition (London: Trübner, 1898). Public domain. Text read from the Princeton Theological Seminary Library copy on the Internet Archive. |
| Berean Standard Bible | PD | The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible, BSB. Dedicated to the public domain. |
| CIA World Factbook (final edition, via the factbook/factbook.json archive) | PD | Source: Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook (edition of 2026-01-22; public domain). Archived copy: github.com/factbook/factbook.json. |
| Cleveland Museum of Art | CC0-1.0 | The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0) |
| Wikimedia Commons: The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930).pdf | PD | Scan of the 1930 first printing (digitized by the Internet Archive), via Wikimedia Commons; OCR by Wikisource's OCR service (Google, Tesseract) and the scan's Internet Archive text layer. |
| The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS) | CC-BY-4.0 | Sanskrit text: Oliver Hellwig, The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS), 2010–2024. CC BY 4.0. |
| JPS Tanakh 1917 (eBible.org) | PD | The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text: A New Translation (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1917). Public domain. Electronic text courtesy of eBible.org; it departs from the 1917 printing in places. |
| King James Version (eBible.org) | PD | The Holy Bible, King James Version (Authorized Version), standard text of 1769; electronic text courtesy of eBible.org and the CrossWire Bible Society. Public domain outside the United Kingdom. In the UK, rights in the Authorized Version are vested in the Crown under Letters Patent, administered by Cambridge University Press. |
| World English Bible (eBible.org) | PD | World English Bible (2020 stable text), public domain, courtesy of eBible.org. "World English Bible" is a trademark of eBible.org; the wording is reproduced unchanged (footnotes and introductions omitted). |
| Project Gutenberg | PD | Public-domain text transcribed by Project Gutenberg volunteers. |
| The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers, tr. Roberts, Donaldson and Crombie, Project Gutenberg #77576 | PD | The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers, translated by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and Frederick Crombie, Ante-Nicene Christian Library vol. 1 (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1870). Public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg eBook #77576; the editors' introductions and notes, the longer and Syriac recensions of Ignatius and the spurious Ignatian letters omitted. |
| The Book of Mormon, Project Gutenberg #17 | PD | The Book of Mormon (first published 1830), in the standard chapter and verse division of 1879. Public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg eBook #17. |
| The Babylonian Legends of the Creation, E. A. Wallis Budge (1921), Project Gutenberg eBook #9914 | PD | The Seven Tablets of Creation, translated by E. A. Wallis Budge, in The Babylonian Legends of the Creation and the Fight between Bel and the Dragon (London: British Museum, 1921). Public domain. Transcription by Project Gutenberg volunteers (eBook #9914), corrected against the 1921 printing. |
| The Babylonian Story of the Deluge, E. A. Wallis Budge (1920), Project Gutenberg eBook #7096 | PD | The Eleventh Tablet of the Epic of Gilgamish (the Deluge), translated by E. A. Wallis Budge, in The Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamish (London: British Museum, 1920). Public domain. Transcription by Project Gutenberg volunteers (eBook #7096), corrected against the 1920 printing. |
| The Confessions of St. Augustine, tr. E. B. Pusey, Project Gutenberg #3296 | PD | The Confessions of St. Augustine, translated by Edward Bouverie Pusey (Oxford, 1838). Public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg eBook #3296. |
| Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland, tr. John Martin Crawford (1888), Project Gutenberg eBook #5186 | PD | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland, translated by John Martin Crawford (New York: John B. Alden, 1888). Public domain. Transcription by Project Gutenberg volunteers (eBook #5186), corrected against the 1888 printing. |
| A Prose English Translation of Vishnupuranam, tr. Manmatha Nath Dutt (1896), Project Gutenberg #66208 | PD | Manmatha Nath Dutt (tr.), A Prose English Translation of Vishnupuranam, based on H. H. Wilson's translation (Calcutta: Elysium Press, 1896). Public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg (transcribed by James Simmons), checked against Internet Archive scans of the 1896 printing. |
| The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, tr. Kisari Mohan Ganguli (1883–96), Project Gutenberg #15474–15477 | PD | Kisari Mohan Ganguli (tr.), The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, published by Pratap Chandra Roy (Calcutta: Bharata Press, 1883–96). Public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg (transcription by John B. Hare, sacred-texts.com, with Mantra Caitanya), checked against Internet Archive scans of the 1884–94 printing and the 1965 reprint. |
| The Confessions of Al Ghazzali, tr. Claud Field, Project Gutenberg #58977 | PD | The Confessions of Al Ghazzali, translated by Claud Field (London: John Murray, Wisdom of the East, 1909). Public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg eBook #58977; Field's introduction and footnotes omitted. |
| Project Gutenberg #8547: The Sayings of the Jewish Fathers (Gorfinkle, 1913) | PD | The Sayings of the Jewish Fathers (Pirke Abot), translated by Joseph I. Gorfinkle (New York: Bloch, 1913). Public domain. Etext produced by Dan Dyckman for Project Gutenberg. |
| The Rámáyan of Válmíki, tr. Ralph T. H. Griffith (1870–74), Project Gutenberg #24869 | PD | Ralph T. H. Griffith (tr.), The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse, 5 vols. (London: Trübner; Benares: E. J. Lazarus, 1870–74). Public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg (Distributed Proofreaders), checked against Internet Archive scans of the 1870–74 volumes. |
| The Mabinogion, tr. Lady Charlotte Guest, Project Gutenberg eBook #5160 | PD | The Mabinogion, translated by Lady Charlotte Guest (first published 1838–1849). Public domain. Transcription by Project Gutenberg volunteers (eBook #5160), corrected against the printed editions of 1877 and 1913. |
| Poems from the Divan of Hafiz, tr. Gertrude Bell, Project Gutenberg #74883 | PD | Poems from the Divan of Hafiz, translated by Gertrude Lowthian Bell (London: Heinemann, 1897). Public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg eBook #74883; Bell's introduction and notes omitted. |
| The Holy Piby, by Robert Athlyi Rogers (1924), Project Gutenberg #61962 | PD | The Holy Piby, by Robert Athlyi Rogers (Newark, N.J., 1924). Public domain. Transcribed by Project Gutenberg volunteers (Distributed Proofreaders) from the Duke University Rubenstein Library copy. |
| Pistis Sophia, tr. George Horner (1924), Project Gutenberg #76266 | PD | Pistis Sophia, literally translated from the Coptic by George Horner, with an introduction by F. Legge (London: SPCK, 1924). Public domain. Transcribed by Project Gutenberg volunteers (Distributed Proofreaders). |
| The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890, James Mooney, Project Gutenberg #74335 | PD | James Mooney, “The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890,” Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, part 2 (Washington, 1896). Public domain (U.S. government work). Text from Project Gutenberg eBook #74335; Mooney's commentary and glossaries omitted. |
| The Secret Doctrine, H. P. Blavatsky, 3rd and revised ed. (1893), Project Gutenberg #54824 and #54488 | PD | H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, third and revised edition, vols. 1–2 (London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1893). Public domain. Transcribed by Project Gutenberg volunteers. |
| Luther's Small Catechism, tr. Robert E. Smith, Project Gutenberg #1670 | PD | Martin Luther, The Small Catechism (1529), translated by Robert E. Smith for Project Wittenberg (1994, revised 2004) and placed in the public domain by him. Text from Project Gutenberg eBook #1670. |
| Songs of Kabir, tr. Rabindranath Tagore (1915), Project Gutenberg #6519 | PD | Rabindranath Tagore (tr.), with Evelyn Underhill, Songs of Kabir (New York: Macmillan, 1915). Public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg, checked against Internet Archive scans of the 1915 printing. |
| Chuang Tzŭ: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer, tr. Herbert A. Giles (1889), Project Gutenberg #59709 | PD | Chuang Tzŭ: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer, translated by Herbert A. Giles (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1889). Public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg eBook #59709 (Distributed Proofreaders); Giles's arguments and comments omitted. |
| The Jātaka (ed. E. B. Cowell, 1895–1907), Internet Archive scans | PD | The Jātaka, or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births, translated from the Pāli by various hands under the editorship of E. B. Cowell, 6 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 1895–1907). Public domain. Text read from scans in the Internet Archive (Smithsonian Libraries, Cornell University Library, University of California Libraries and others). |
| The Doctrine and Covenants (Salt Lake City, 1891), Internet Archive | PD | The Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1891). Public domain. Read from two Internet Archive scans of that printing (doctrineandcove00saingoog, doctrinecovenantsmit), checked word by word against each other; the Lectures on Faith, index and footnotes are omitted. |
| The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, tr. Charles Johnston (New York, 1912), Internet Archive scan | PD | Charles Johnston (tr.), The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: "The Book of the Spiritual Man" (New York: Charles Johnston, 1912). Public domain. Sūtra text read from the Internet Archive scan of the Library of Congress copy (OCR, corrected). |
| Taoist Teachings from the Book of Lieh Tzŭ, tr. Lionel Giles (1912), Internet Archive | PD | Taoist Teachings from the Book of Lieh Tzŭ, translated by Lionel Giles (London: John Murray, Wisdom of the East, 1912). Public domain. Read from Internet Archive scans of the printed book (taoistteachingsf00lieh, taoistteachings00liehuoft, taoistteachingsf00liezrich), checked word by word against each other; Giles's notes omitted. |
| Buddhist Mahāyāna Texts (SBE 49), Internet Archive scans | PD | Buddhist Mahāyāna Texts, Sacred Books of the East vol. 49 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894): the Buddha-karita of Aśvaghoṣa, translated by E. B. Cowell; the Larger and Smaller Sukhāvatī-vyūha, the Vagrakkhedikā and the Pragñā-pāramitā-hṛdaya-sūtra, translated by F. Max Müller. Public domain. Text read from scans in the Internet Archive. |
| The Saddharma-puṇḍarīka (SBE 21), Internet Archive scans | PD | The Saddharma-puṇḍarīka, or the Lotus of the True Law, translated by H. Kern, Sacred Books of the East vol. 21 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1884). Public domain. Text read from scans in the Internet Archive. |
| The Questions of King Milinda (SBE 35–36), Internet Archive scans | PD | The Questions of King Milinda, translated from the Pāli by T. W. Rhys Davids, Sacred Books of the East vols. 35–36 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890–1894). Public domain. Text read from scans in the Internet Archive. |
| Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India, Census of India 2011, Table C-01 Population by religious community (with appendix) | ATTRIBUTION-TERMS | Source: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India, Census of India 2011, Table C-01 Population by religious community and its appendix, under the Government Open Data License – India. |
| The Chinese Classics, vol. 1, tr. James Legge, 2nd ed. (1893), via Project Gutenberg #4094 | PD | Translated by James Legge, The Chinese Classics, vol. 1: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning, and The Doctrine of the Mean, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1893). Public domain. E-text from Project Gutenberg (#4094), checked word by word against scans of the 1893 printing (Internet Archive). |
| The Tâo Teh King, tr. James Legge, Sacred Books of the East 39 (1891), via Project Gutenberg #216 | PD | Translated by James Legge, The Texts of Tâoism, Part I, Sacred Books of the East vol. 39 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1891). Public domain. E-text from Project Gutenberg (#216), checked word by word against scans of the 1891 printing (Internet Archive). |
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art | CC0-1.0 | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0) |
| Natural Earth | PD | Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data. |
| Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 (England and Wales), TS031 Religion (detailed) | ATTRIBUTION-TERMS | Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0 |
| Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (Westminster Leningrad Codex) | CC-BY-4.0 | Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb (CC BY 4.0). |
| Pantheon editorial team | ORIGINAL | Pantheon editorial (draft, pending expert review) |
| Gaina Sûtras, Part I: The Âkârânga Sûtra, The Kalpa Sûtra, translated by Hermann Jacobi (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 22, 1884) | PD | Gaina Sûtras, Part I: The Âkârânga Sûtra, The Kalpa Sûtra, translated by Hermann Jacobi. Sacred Books of the East, vol. 22, ed. F. Max Müller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1884). Public domain. Text read from the scan on Wikimedia Commons (digitised by the Internet Archive): English Wikisource's transcription where proofread, OCR elsewhere. |
| The Zend-Avesta, Part II: The Sîrôzahs, Yasts, and Nyâyis, translated by James Darmesteter (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 23, 1883) | PD | The Zend-Avesta, Part II: The Sîrôzahs, Yasts, and Nyâyis, translated by James Darmesteter. Sacred Books of the East, vol. 23, ed. F. Max Müller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1883). Public domain. Text read from the scan on Wikimedia Commons (digitised by the Internet Archive): English Wikisource's transcription where proofread, OCR elsewhere. |
| Pahlavi Texts, Part III: Dînâ-î Maînôg-î Khirad, Sikand-gûmânîk Vigâr, Sad Dar, translated by E. W. West (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 24, 1885) | PD | Pahlavi Texts, Part III: Dînâ-î Maînôg-î Khirad, Sikand-gûmânîk Vigâr, Sad Dar, translated by E. W. West. Sacred Books of the East, vol. 24, ed. F. Max Müller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1885). Public domain. Text read from the scan on Wikimedia Commons (digitised by the Internet Archive): English Wikisource's transcription where proofread, OCR elsewhere. |
| The Laws of Manu, translated by Georg Bühler (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 25, 1886) | PD | The Laws of Manu, translated by Georg Bühler. Sacred Books of the East, vol. 25, ed. F. Max Müller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1886). Public domain. Text read from the scan on Wikimedia Commons (digitised by the Internet Archive): English Wikisource's transcription where proofread, OCR elsewhere. |
| The Zend-Avesta, Part III: The Yasna, Visparad, Âfrînagân, Gâhs, and Miscellaneous Fragments, translated by L. H. Mills (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 31, 1887) | PD | The Zend-Avesta, Part III: The Yasna, Visparad, Âfrînagân, Gâhs, and Miscellaneous Fragments, translated by L. H. Mills. Sacred Books of the East, vol. 31, ed. F. Max Müller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1887). Public domain. Text read from the scan on Wikimedia Commons (digitised by the Internet Archive): English Wikisource's transcription where proofread, OCR elsewhere. |
| The Zend-Avesta, Part I: The Vendîdâd, translated by James Darmesteter, 2nd edition (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 4, 1895) | PD | The Zend-Avesta, Part I: The Vendîdâd, translated by James Darmesteter, 2nd edition. Sacred Books of the East, vol. 4, ed. F. Max Müller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895). Public domain. Text read from the scan on Wikimedia Commons (digitised by the Internet Archive): English Wikisource's transcription where proofread, OCR elsewhere. |
| Gaina Sûtras, Part II: The Uttarâdhyayana Sûtra, The Sûtrakritânga Sûtra, translated by Hermann Jacobi (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 45, 1895) | PD | Gaina Sûtras, Part II: The Uttarâdhyayana Sûtra, The Sûtrakritânga Sûtra, translated by Hermann Jacobi. Sacred Books of the East, vol. 45, ed. F. Max Müller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895). Public domain. Text read from the scan on Wikimedia Commons (digitised by the Internet Archive): English Wikisource's transcription where proofread, OCR elsewhere. |
| Pahlavi Texts, Part I: The Bundahis, Bahman Yast, and Shâyast Lâ-shâyast, translated by E. W. West (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 5, 1880) | PD | Pahlavi Texts, Part I: The Bundahis, Bahman Yast, and Shâyast Lâ-shâyast, translated by E. W. West. Sacred Books of the East, vol. 5, ed. F. Max Müller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1880). Public domain. Text read from the scan on Wikimedia Commons (digitised by the Internet Archive): English Wikisource's transcription where proofread, OCR elsewhere. |
| SBL Greek New Testament | CC-BY-4.0 | The SBL Greek New Testament, ed. Michael W. Holmes. Copyright 2010 Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software. CC BY 4.0. |
| Avot DeRabbi Natan, tr. David Kasher (2019), via Sefaria | CC-BY-3.0 | Avot DeRabbi Natan, translated by David Kasher (2019). CC BY. Text from Sefaria (sefaria.org). |
| Sefaria Community Translation, via Sefaria | CC0-1.0 | Sefaria Community Translation, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). |
| The Guide for the Perplexed, tr. M. Friedländer (1903), via Sefaria | PD | Moses Maimonides, The Guide for the Perplexed, translated by M. Friedländer, 2nd ed. (London: Routledge, 1904 [1903]). Public domain. Text from Sefaria (sefaria.org). |
| Hebrew texts (public domain editions), via Sefaria | PD | Public-domain Hebrew editions, digitized by Sefaria (sefaria.org). |
| Kitab al Khazari, tr. Hartwig Hirschfeld (1905), via Sefaria | PD | Judah Hallevi, Kitab al Khazari, translated by Hartwig Hirschfeld (London: Routledge, 1905). Public domain. Text from Sefaria (sefaria.org). |
| Path of the Just, tr. Rabbi Yosef Sebag, via Sefaria | CC-BY-3.0 | Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Path of the Just, translated by Rabbi Yosef Sebag. CC BY. Text from Sefaria (sefaria.org). |
| Midrash Rabbah, via Sefaria | CC-BY-3.0 | English: The Sefaria Midrash Rabbah (2022), CC BY. Hebrew: Torat Emet text, public domain. From Sefaria (sefaria.org). |
| Mishnah Yomit, tr. Dr. Joshua Kulp, via Sefaria | CC-BY-3.0 | Mishnah Yomit, translated by Dr. Joshua Kulp (Conservative Yeshiva, Jerusalem). CC BY. Text from Sefaria (sefaria.org). |
| Mishnah, ed. Romm, Vilna 1913, via Sefaria | PD | Mishnah, ed. Romm (Vilna, 1913). Public domain. Digital text from Sefaria (sefaria.org). |
| Pirkê de Rabbi Eliezer, tr. Gerald Friedlander (1916), via Sefaria | PD | Pirkê de Rabbi Eliezer, translated and annotated by Gerald Friedlander (London: Kegan Paul, 1916). Public domain. Text from Sefaria (sefaria.org); notes omitted. |
| Halakhic midrashim, tr. Rabbi Shraga Silverstein, via Sefaria | CC-BY-3.0 | Mechilta, Sifra and Sifrei, translated by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein. CC BY. Text from Sefaria (sefaria.org). |
| The Jerusalem Talmud, ed. and tr. Heinrich W. Guggenheimer, via Sefaria | CC-BY-3.0 | The Jerusalem Talmud, edition, translation and commentary by Heinrich W. Guggenheimer (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1999–2015). CC BY. Text from Sefaria (sefaria.org); commentary notes omitted. |
| Shabad OS Database | PD | Gurmukhi text of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji from the Shabad OS Database (release v5.0.0-next.0), digitised from Shabadaarth (SGPC, Sri Amritsar, 2009-2012). Identified by Shabad OS as public domain (Public Domain Mark 1.0). |
| Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population, Table 98-10-0342-01 Religion by visible minority and generation status: Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations with parts | ATTRIBUTION-TERMS | Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0342-01 Religion by visible minority and generation status: Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations with parts, released 2022-10-26. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product. |
| Stats NZ, 2018 Census totals by topic – national highlights, Religious affiliation (total responses) | CC-BY-4.0 | Source: Stats NZ, 2018 Census, licensed by Stats NZ for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. |
| SuttaCentral | CC0-1.0 | Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato, SuttaCentral (CC0) |
| SuttaCentral: Bhikkhu Brahmali's Vinaya translation | CC0-1.0 | Translated by Bhikkhu Brahmali. SuttaCentral, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). |
| Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka (Pāli), via SuttaCentral | PD | Pāli text: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka Buddhavasse 2500 (M.L. Maniratana Bunnag Dhamma Society Fund), as published by SuttaCentral. Public domain. |
| SuttaCentral: Bhikkhu Sujato's translations | CC0-1.0 | Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato. SuttaCentral, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). |
| Tanzil Project | ATTRIBUTION-TERMS | Quran text: Tanzil Project (tanzil.net), CC BY 3.0, reproduced verbatim. |
| The Vedânta-Sûtras with the Commentary by Saṅkarâkârya, tr. George Thibaut, SBE 34 and 38 | PD | The Vedânta-Sûtras with the Commentary by Saṅkarâkârya, translated by George Thibaut, Sacred Books of the East 34 and 38 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890, 1896). Public domain. Part I from Project Gutenberg eBook #16295, checked against Internet Archive scans (vedntasutrastr01bdar, mlbd.vedantasutras00vol-34.bada); Part II read from Internet Archive scans (vedntasutrastr02bdar, wg938, SacredBooksEast.varorsch.50VolumesWithIndexMaxMuller.Oxford.1879.1910). Thibaut's introduction and notes omitted. |
| Wikidata | CC0-1.0 | Data from Wikidata (CC0) |
| al-Arbaʿūn an-Nawawiyya, Arabic Wikisource | PD | Yaḥyā ibn Sharaf an-Nawawī (d. 1277), al-Arbaʿūn an-Nawawiyya. Public domain. Arabic text from Arabic Wikisource, checked against an independent digital copy (fawazahmed0/hadith-api). |
| Nihongi, tr. W. G. Aston (1896), English Wikisource | PD | Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697, translated by W. G. Aston, Transactions and Proceedings of the Japan Society, London, Supplement I (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1896). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread by English Wikisource volunteers. |
| The Poetic Edda, tr. Henry Adams Bellows (1923), English Wikisource | PD | The Poetic Edda, translated by Henry Adams Bellows (New York: American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1923). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread by English Wikisource volunteers. |
| The Bhagavad-Gita, tr. Annie Besant, 4th ed. (1922), English Wikisource | PD | Sanskrit text and English translation from The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant, 4th edition (Madras: G. A. Natesan, 1922). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread by English Wikisource volunteers. |
| The Prose Edda, tr. Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur (1916), English Wikisource | PD | The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson, translated by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur (New York: American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1916). Public domain in the United States (published before 1931); the translator died in 1971, so it may still be protected in countries with longer terms. Transcribed and proofread by English Wikisource volunteers. |
| The Book of the Dead, tr. E. A. Wallis Budge, in Egyptian Literature (1901), English Wikisource | PD | The Book of the Dead according to the Theban Recension, translated by E. A. Wallis Budge, in Egyptian Literature, ed. Epiphanius Wilson (New York: Colonial Press, 1901). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread by English Wikisource volunteers; chapter numbers from Budge's The Book of the Dead: An English Translation (1901). |
| Kojiki, tr. Basil Hall Chamberlain (1882), English Wikisource | PD | “Ko-ji-ki,” or Records of Ancient Matters, translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. X, supplement (Yokohama, 1882). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread by English Wikisource volunteers. |
| Wikisource: The Book of Enoch (Charles, 1917) | PD | The Book of Enoch, translated by R. H. Charles, with an introduction by W. O. E. Oesterley (London: SPCK, 1917). Public domain. Transcription from English Wikisource, checked against the Internet Archive scan of the 1917 printing. |
| Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica, tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (Loeb, 1914; 1920 printing), English Wikisource | PD | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica, translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Loeb Classical Library (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1914; text of the 1920 printing). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread by English Wikisource volunteers; line numbers from Project Gutenberg eBook #348. |
| The Hymns of the Rigveda, tr. Ralph T. H. Griffith, 2nd ed. (1896–97), English Wikisource | PD | Ralph T. H. Griffith, The Hymns of the Rigveda, 2nd edition (Benares: E. J. Lazarus, 1896–97). Public domain. Text from English Wikisource, checked against Internet Archive scans of the 1896–97 printing. |
| The Sikh Religion, its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, by Max Arthur Macauliffe (1909), English Wikisource | PD | Max Arthur Macauliffe, The Sikh Religion, its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, vol. 1 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909). Public domain. Text from English Wikisource's transcription of the scan, checked word by word against Internet Archive scans (thesikhreligion01macauoft, in.ernet.dli.2015.85504); Macauliffe's notes omitted. |
| Wikisource: The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930) | PD | Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930). Text of the 1930 edition, transcribed by Wikisource contributors; remaining pages read by OCR from the Wikimedia Commons scan. |
| The Upanishads, tr. F. Max Müller, Sacred Books of the East vols. 1 (1879) and 15 (1884), English Wikisource | PD | Translated by F. Max Müller, The Upanishads, Sacred Books of the East vols. 1 (1879) and 15 (1884), Oxford: Clarendon Press. Public domain. Transcribed by English Wikisource volunteers. |
| The Yî King, tr. James Legge, Sacred Books of the East 16 (1882), English Wikisource | PD | Translated by James Legge, The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism, Part II: The Yî King, Sacred Books of the East vol. 16 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1882). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread from the scan by English Wikisource volunteers. |
| The Sacred Books of China, Part I (Shû King, Shih King, Hsiâo King), tr. James Legge, Sacred Books of the East 3 (1879), English Wikisource | PD | Translated by James Legge, The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism, Part I, Sacred Books of the East vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread from the scan by English Wikisource volunteers. |
| Atharva-Veda Saṁhitā, tr. W. D. Whitney, ed. C. R. Lanman, Harvard Oriental Series 7–8 (1905), English Wikisource | PD | William Dwight Whitney (tr.), Atharva-Veda Saṁhitā, revised and edited by Charles Rockwell Lanman, Harvard Oriental Series 7–8 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 1905). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread from the scans by English Wikisource volunteers; translation only (critical notes omitted). |
| Chinese Wikisource (維基文庫) | PD | Chinese text from Chinese Wikisource (zh.wikisource.org), transcribed by Wikisource volunteers. Public domain. |
Texts in the library
| Work | Edition | Licence | Attribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Enoch | The Book of Enoch, tr. R. H. Charles (1917) English · R. H. Charles, 1917 | PD | The Book of Enoch, translated by R. H. Charles, with an introduction by W. O. E. Oesterley (London: SPCK, 1917). Public domain. Transcription from English Wikisource, checked against the Internet Archive scan of the 1917 printing. |
| Abhidhamma Piṭaka | Abhidhamma Piṭaka (Pāli, Mahāsaṅgīti) Pāli | PD | Pāli text: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka Buddhavasse 2500 (M.L. Maniratana Bunnag Dhamma Society Fund), as published by SuttaCentral. Public domain. Pāli text: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka, via SuttaCentral. Public domain. |
| Ācārāṅga Sūtra | Âkârânga Sûtra, tr. Hermann Jacobi English · Hermann Jacobi, 1884 | PD | Gaina Sûtras, Part I: The Âkârânga Sûtra, The Kalpa Sûtra, translated by Hermann Jacobi. Sacred Books of the East, vol. 22, ed. F. Max Müller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1884). Public domain. Text read from the scan on Wikimedia Commons (digitised by the Internet Archive): English Wikisource's transcription where proofread, OCR elsewhere. |
| Atharva Veda | Atharvaveda, Śaunaka (Sanskrit, IAST) Sanskrit (romanised) | CC-BY-4.0 | Sanskrit text: Oliver Hellwig, The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS), 2010–2024. CC BY 4.0. Sanskrit text from The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS) by Oliver Hellwig, 2010–2024, https://github.com/OliverHellwig/sanskrit, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Changes: sentence parts joined per verse; only verses the DCS numbers within Whitney's verse count are included (3522). |
| Atharva Veda | Atharva Veda, tr. William Dwight Whitney English · William Dwight Whitney, 1905 | PD | William Dwight Whitney (tr.), Atharva-Veda Saṁhitā, revised and edited by Charles Rockwell Lanman, Harvard Oriental Series 7–8 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 1905). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread from the scans by English Wikisource volunteers; translation only (critical notes omitted). |
| Avot DeRabbi Natan | Avot DeRabbi Natan (Hebrew, Vilna 1883) Hebrew · 1883 | PD | Public-domain Hebrew editions, digitized by Sefaria (sefaria.org). |
| Avot DeRabbi Natan | Avot DeRabbi Natan, tr. David Kasher (2019) English · David Kasher, 2019 | CC-BY-3.0 | Avot DeRabbi Natan, translated by David Kasher (2019). CC BY. Text from Sefaria (sefaria.org). English translation: Avot DeRabbi Natan, translated by David Kasher (2019), via Sefaria (sefaria.org).
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Changes: footnotes and HTML formatting removed. |
| Bhagavad Gita | Bhagavad Gītā (Sanskrit) Sanskrit | PD | Sanskrit text and English translation from The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant, 4th edition (Madras: G. A. Natesan, 1922). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread by English Wikisource volunteers. |
| Bhagavad Gita | Bhagavad Gita, tr. Annie Besant English · Annie Besant, 1922 | PD | Sanskrit text and English translation from The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant, 4th edition (Madras: G. A. Natesan, 1922). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread by English Wikisource volunteers. |
| Book of Documents | 尚書 (維基文庫校訂本，底本) Classical Chinese | PD | Chinese text from Chinese Wikisource (zh.wikisource.org), transcribed by Wikisource volunteers. Public domain. |
| Book of Documents | The Shû King, tr. James Legge English · James Legge, 1879 | PD | Translated by James Legge, The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism, Part I, Sacred Books of the East vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread from the scan by English Wikisource volunteers. |
| Brahma Sūtras | The Vedānta-Sūtras with Śaṅkara's commentary, tr. George Thibaut English · George Thibaut, 1890 | PD | The Vedânta-Sûtras with the Commentary by Saṅkarâkârya, translated by George Thibaut, Sacred Books of the East 34 and 38 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890, 1896). Public domain. Part I from Project Gutenberg eBook #16295, checked against Internet Archive scans (vedntasutrastr01bdar, mlbd.vedantasutras00vol-34.bada); Part II read from Internet Archive scans (vedntasutrastr02bdar, wg938, SacredBooksEast.varorsch.50VolumesWithIndexMaxMuller.Oxford.1879.1910). Thibaut's introduction and notes omitted. |
| Buddhacarita | The Buddha-karita of Aśvaghoṣa, tr. E. B. Cowell English · E. B. Cowell, 1894 | PD | Buddhist Mahāyāna Texts, Sacred Books of the East vol. 49 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894): the Buddha-karita of Aśvaghoṣa, translated by E. B. Cowell; the Larger and Smaller Sukhāvatī-vyūha, the Vagrakkhedikā and the Pragñā-pāramitā-hṛdaya-sūtra, translated by F. Max Müller. Public domain. Text read from scans in the Internet Archive. Buddhist Mahāyāna Texts, Sacred Books of the East 49 (1894). Public domain. Read from scans of the printed edition: every word was checked against three or four independent scans of the same printing and corrected where they agree; footnotes, running heads and page numbers are left out. Diacritics the OCR could not read are not reproduced. |
| Bundahishn | Bundahishn, tr. E. W. West English · E. W. West, 1880 | PD | Pahlavi Texts, Part I: The Bundahis, Bahman Yast, and Shâyast Lâ-shâyast, translated by E. W. West. Sacred Books of the East, vol. 5, ed. F. Max Müller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1880). Public domain. Text read from the scan on Wikimedia Commons (digitised by the Internet Archive): English Wikisource's transcription where proofread, OCR elsewhere. |
| Chandogya Upanishad | Chāndogya Upaniṣad (Sanskrit, IAST) Sanskrit (romanised) | CC-BY-4.0 | Sanskrit text: Oliver Hellwig, The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS), 2010–2024. CC BY 4.0. Sanskrit text from The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS) by Oliver Hellwig, 2010–2024,
https://github.com/OliverHellwig/sanskrit, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Changes: sentence parts joined per verse; in the
Kaṭha Upaniṣad, 1.2.15–16 rejoined to follow the standard verse numbering. |
| Chandogya Upanishad | Chāndogya Upaniṣad, tr. F. Max Müller English · F. Max Müller, 1879 | PD | Translated by F. Max Müller, The Upanishads, Sacred Books of the East vols. 1 (1879) and 15 (1884), Oxford: Clarendon Press. Public domain. Transcribed by English Wikisource volunteers. |
| Classic of Filial Piety | 孝經 Classical Chinese | PD | Chinese text from Chinese Wikisource (zh.wikisource.org), transcribed by Wikisource volunteers. Public domain. |
| Classic of Filial Piety | The Hsiâo King, tr. James Legge English · James Legge, 1879 | PD | Translated by James Legge, The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism, Part I, Sacred Books of the East vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread from the scan by English Wikisource volunteers. |
| Classic of Poetry | 詩經 Classical Chinese | PD | Chinese text from Chinese Wikisource (zh.wikisource.org), transcribed by Wikisource volunteers. Public domain. |
| Classic of Poetry | The Shih King (selections), tr. James Legge English · James Legge, 1879 | PD | Translated by James Legge, The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism, Part I, Sacred Books of the East vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread from the scan by English Wikisource volunteers. |
| Confessions | Confessions, tr. E. B. Pusey English · E. B. Pusey, 1838 | PD | The Confessions of St. Augustine, translated by Edward Bouverie Pusey (Oxford, 1838). Public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg eBook #3296. |
| Deuterocanon / Apocrypha | World English Bible English · 2020 | PD | World English Bible (2020 stable text), public domain, courtesy of eBible.org. "World English Bible" is a trademark of eBible.org; the wording is reproduced unchanged (footnotes and introductions omitted). |
| Dhammapada | Dhammapada (Pāli, Mahāsaṅgīti) Pāli | CC0-1.0 | Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato, SuttaCentral (CC0) |
| Dhammapada | Dhammapada, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato English · Bhikkhu Sujato, 2021 | CC0-1.0 | Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato, SuttaCentral (CC0) |
| Diamond Sūtra | The Vagrakkhedikā (Diamond-cutter), tr. F. Max Müller English · F. Max Müller, 1894 | PD | Buddhist Mahāyāna Texts, Sacred Books of the East vol. 49 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894): the Buddha-karita of Aśvaghoṣa, translated by E. B. Cowell; the Larger and Smaller Sukhāvatī-vyūha, the Vagrakkhedikā and the Pragñā-pāramitā-hṛdaya-sūtra, translated by F. Max Müller. Public domain. Text read from scans in the Internet Archive. Buddhist Mahāyāna Texts, Sacred Books of the East 49 (1894). Public domain. Read from scans of the printed edition: every word was checked against three or four independent scans of the same printing and corrected where they agree; footnotes, running heads and page numbers are left out. Diacritics the OCR could not read are not reproduced. |
| Enuma Elish | Enuma Elish, tr. E. A. Wallis Budge English · E. A. Wallis Budge, 1921 | PD | The Seven Tablets of Creation, translated by E. A. Wallis Budge, in The Babylonian Legends of the Creation and the Fight between Bel and the Dragon (London: British Museum, 1921). Public domain. Transcription by Project Gutenberg volunteers (eBook #9914), corrected against the 1921 printing. |
| Heart Sūtra | The Pragñā-pāramitā-hṛdaya-sūtra, tr. F. Max Müller English · F. Max Müller, 1894 | PD | Buddhist Mahāyāna Texts, Sacred Books of the East vol. 49 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894): the Buddha-karita of Aśvaghoṣa, translated by E. B. Cowell; the Larger and Smaller Sukhāvatī-vyūha, the Vagrakkhedikā and the Pragñā-pāramitā-hṛdaya-sūtra, translated by F. Max Müller. Public domain. Text read from scans in the Internet Archive. Buddhist Mahāyāna Texts, Sacred Books of the East 49 (1894). Public domain. Read from scans of the printed edition: every word was checked against three or four independent scans of the same printing and corrected where they agree; footnotes, running heads and page numbers are left out. Diacritics the OCR could not read are not reproduced. |
| I Ching | 周易 Classical Chinese | PD | Chinese text from Chinese Wikisource (zh.wikisource.org), transcribed by Wikisource volunteers. Public domain. |
| I Ching | The Yî King, tr. James Legge English · James Legge, 1882 | PD | Translated by James Legge, The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism, Part II: The Yî King, Sacred Books of the East vol. 16 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1882). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread from the scan by English Wikisource volunteers. |
| Isha Upanishad | Īśa Upaniṣad, tr. F. Max Müller English · F. Max Müller, 1879 | PD | Translated by F. Max Müller, The Upanishads, Sacred Books of the East vols. 1 (1879) and 15 (1884), Oxford: Clarendon Press. Public domain. Transcribed by English Wikisource volunteers. |
| Jātaka Tales | Jātaka verses (Pāli, Mahāsaṅgīti) Pāli | PD | Pāli text: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka Buddhavasse 2500 (M.L. Maniratana Bunnag Dhamma Society Fund), as published by SuttaCentral. Public domain. Pāli text: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka, via SuttaCentral. Public domain. The canonical Jātaka is the verses only; each verse is shown with the English stanza that translates it where the stanzas could be matched one to one, and after the English story otherwise. |
| Jātaka Tales | The Jātaka, ed. E. B. Cowell English · E. B. Cowell (ed.), R. Chalmers, W. H. D. Rouse, H. T. Francis, R. A. Neil, 1895 | PD | The Jātaka, or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births, translated from the Pāli by various hands under the editorship of E. B. Cowell, 6 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 1895–1907). Public domain. Text read from scans in the Internet Archive (Smithsonian Libraries, Cornell University Library, University of California Libraries and others). The Jātaka, or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births, ed. E. B. Cowell, 6 vols. (Cambridge, 1895–1907). Public domain. Read from scans of the printed edition: every word was checked against three or four independent scans of the same printing and corrected where they agree; footnotes, running heads and page numbers are left out. Diacritics the OCR could not read are not reproduced. |
| Kalpa Sūtra | Kalpa Sûtra, tr. Hermann Jacobi English · Hermann Jacobi, 1884 | PD | Gaina Sûtras, Part I: The Âkârânga Sûtra, The Kalpa Sûtra, translated by Hermann Jacobi. Sacred Books of the East, vol. 22, ed. F. Max Müller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1884). Public domain. Text read from the scan on Wikimedia Commons (digitised by the Internet Archive): English Wikisource's transcription where proofread, OCR elsewhere. |
| Katha Upanishad | Kaṭha Upaniṣad (Sanskrit, IAST) Sanskrit (romanised) | CC-BY-4.0 | Sanskrit text: Oliver Hellwig, The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS), 2010–2024. CC BY 4.0. Sanskrit text from The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS) by Oliver Hellwig, 2010–2024,
https://github.com/OliverHellwig/sanskrit, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Changes: sentence parts joined per verse; in the
Kaṭha Upaniṣad, 1.2.15–16 rejoined to follow the standard verse numbering. |
| Katha Upanishad | Kaṭha Upaniṣad, tr. F. Max Müller English · F. Max Müller, 1884 | PD | Translated by F. Max Müller, The Upanishads, Sacred Books of the East vols. 1 (1879) and 15 (1884), Oxford: Clarendon Press. Public domain. Transcribed by English Wikisource volunteers. |
| Kebra Nagast | Kebra Nagast, tr. E. A. Wallis Budge English · E. A. Wallis Budge, 1922 | PD | The Queen of Sheba & Her Only Son Menyelek: A Complete Translation of the Kebra Nagast, by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge (London: The Medici Society, 1922). Public domain. Text read from scans of the 1922 printing on the Internet Archive (University of California Libraries; Oxford Oriental Institute copy digitized by Google). |
| Kena Upanishad | Kena Upaniṣad, tr. F. Max Müller English · F. Max Müller, 1879 | PD | Translated by F. Max Müller, The Upanishads, Sacred Books of the East vols. 1 (1879) and 15 (1884), Oxford: Clarendon Press. Public domain. Transcribed by English Wikisource volunteers. |
| Kojiki | Kojiki, tr. Basil Hall Chamberlain English · Basil Hall Chamberlain, 1882 | PD | “Ko-ji-ki,” or Records of Ancient Matters, translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. X, supplement (Yokohama, 1882). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread by English Wikisource volunteers. |
| Larger Sukhāvatīvyūha | The Larger Sukhāvatī-vyūha, tr. F. Max Müller English · F. Max Müller, 1894 | PD | Buddhist Mahāyāna Texts, Sacred Books of the East vol. 49 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894): the Buddha-karita of Aśvaghoṣa, translated by E. B. Cowell; the Larger and Smaller Sukhāvatī-vyūha, the Vagrakkhedikā and the Pragñā-pāramitā-hṛdaya-sūtra, translated by F. Max Müller. Public domain. Text read from scans in the Internet Archive. Buddhist Mahāyāna Texts, Sacred Books of the East 49 (1894). Public domain. Read from scans of the printed edition: every word was checked against three or four independent scans of the same printing and corrected where they agree; footnotes, running heads and page numbers are left out. Diacritics the OCR could not read are not reproduced. |
| Liezi | Taoist Teachings from the Book of Lieh Tzŭ, tr. Lionel Giles (1912) English · Lionel Giles, 1912 | PD | Taoist Teachings from the Book of Lieh Tzŭ, translated by Lionel Giles (London: John Murray, Wisdom of the East, 1912). Public domain. Read from Internet Archive scans of the printed book (taoistteachingsf00lieh, taoistteachings00liehuoft, taoistteachingsf00liezrich), checked word by word against each other; Giles's notes omitted. |
| Lotus Sūtra | The Lotus of the True Law, tr. H. Kern English · H. Kern, 1884 | PD | The Saddharma-puṇḍarīka, or the Lotus of the True Law, translated by H. Kern, Sacred Books of the East vol. 21 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1884). Public domain. Text read from scans in the Internet Archive. The Saddharma-puṇḍarīka, or the Lotus of the True Law, tr. H. Kern, Sacred Books of the East 21 (1884). Public domain. Read from scans of the printed edition: every word was checked against three or four independent scans of the same printing and corrected where they agree; footnotes, running heads and page numbers are left out. Diacritics the OCR could not read are not reproduced. |
| Mainyo-i-Khard | Dînâ-î Maînôg-î Khirad (Mainyo-i-Khard), tr. E. W. West English · E. W. West, 1885 | PD | Pahlavi Texts, Part III: Dînâ-î Maînôg-î Khirad, Sikand-gûmânîk Vigâr, Sad Dar, translated by E. W. West. Sacred Books of the East, vol. 24, ed. F. Max Müller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1885). Public domain. Text read from the scan on Wikimedia Commons (digitised by the Internet Archive): English Wikisource's transcription where proofread, OCR elsewhere. |
| Masnavi | Masnavi, tr. E. H. Whinfield (abridged) English · E. H. Whinfield, 1898 | PD | Masnavi i Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-'d-Dín Muhammad i Rúmí, translated and abridged by E. H. Whinfield, 2nd edition (London: Trübner, 1898). Public domain. Text read from the Princeton Theological Seminary Library copy on the Internet Archive. |
| Mekhilta de-Rabbi Yishmael | Mekhilta d'Rabbi Yishmael, tr. Shraga Silverstein English · Shraga Silverstein | CC-BY-3.0 | Mechilta, Sifra and Sifrei, translated by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein. CC BY. Text from Sefaria (sefaria.org). English translation: Mekhilta d'Rabbi Yishmael, translated by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein, via Sefaria (sefaria.org).
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Changes: footnotes and HTML formatting removed. |
| Mencius | 孟子 Classical Chinese | PD | Chinese text from Chinese Wikisource (zh.wikisource.org), transcribed by Wikisource volunteers. Public domain. |
| Midrash Rabbah | Midrash Rabbah (Hebrew, Torat Emet) Hebrew | PD | English: The Sefaria Midrash Rabbah (2022), CC BY. Hebrew: Torat Emet text, public domain. From Sefaria (sefaria.org). |
| Midrash Rabbah | The Sefaria Midrash Rabbah (2022) English · 2022 | CC-BY-3.0 | English: The Sefaria Midrash Rabbah (2022), CC BY. Hebrew: Torat Emet text, public domain. From Sefaria (sefaria.org). English translation: The Sefaria Midrash Rabbah, 2022, via Sefaria (sefaria.org).
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Changes: footnotes and HTML formatting removed. |
| Mundaka Upanishad | Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad, tr. F. Max Müller English · F. Max Müller, 1884 | PD | Translated by F. Max Müller, The Upanishads, Sacred Books of the East vols. 1 (1879) and 15 (1884), Oxford: Clarendon Press. Public domain. Transcribed by English Wikisource volunteers. |
| Nihongi | Nihongi, tr. W. G. Aston English · W. G. Aston, 1896 | PD | Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697, translated by W. G. Aston, Transactions and Proceedings of the Japan Society, London, Supplement I (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1896). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread by English Wikisource volunteers. |
| Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer | Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer (Hebrew) Hebrew | PD | Public-domain Hebrew editions, digitized by Sefaria (sefaria.org). |
| Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer | Pirkê de Rabbi Eliezer, tr. Gerald Friedlander (1916) English · Gerald Friedlander, 1916 | PD | Pirkê de Rabbi Eliezer, translated and annotated by Gerald Friedlander (London: Kegan Paul, 1916). Public domain. Text from Sefaria (sefaria.org); notes omitted. |
| Pistis Sophia | Pistis Sophia, tr. George Horner English · George Horner, 1924 | PD | Pistis Sophia, literally translated from the Coptic by George Horner, with an introduction by F. Legge (London: SPCK, 1924). Public domain. Transcribed by Project Gutenberg volunteers (Distributed Proofreaders). |
| Poems from the Divan of Hafiz | Poems from the Divan of Hafiz, tr. Gertrude Bell English · Gertrude Bell, 1897 | PD | Poems from the Divan of Hafiz, translated by Gertrude Lowthian Bell (London: Heinemann, 1897). Public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg eBook #74883; Bell's introduction and notes omitted. |
| Prashna Upanishad | Praśna Upaniṣad, tr. F. Max Müller English · F. Max Müller, 1884 | PD | Translated by F. Max Müller, The Upanishads, Sacred Books of the East vols. 1 (1879) and 15 (1884), Oxford: Clarendon Press. Public domain. Transcribed by English Wikisource volunteers. |
| Rig Veda | Ṛgveda (Sanskrit, IAST) Sanskrit (romanised) | CC-BY-4.0 | Sanskrit text: Oliver Hellwig, The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS), 2010–2024. CC BY 4.0. Sanskrit text from The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS) by Oliver Hellwig, 2010–2024, https://github.com/OliverHellwig/sanskrit, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Changes: sentence parts joined per verse; only verses the DCS numbers are included (8483 of the Ṛgveda's 10,552). |
| Rig Veda | Rig Veda, tr. Ralph T. H. Griffith English · Ralph T. H. Griffith, 1896 | PD | Ralph T. H. Griffith, The Hymns of the Rigveda, 2nd edition (Benares: E. J. Lazarus, 1896–97). Public domain. Text from English Wikisource, checked against Internet Archive scans of the 1896–97 printing. |
| Sefer Yetzirah | Sefer Yetzirah (Hebrew, Warsaw 1884) Hebrew · 1884 | PD | Public-domain Hebrew editions, digitized by Sefaria (sefaria.org). |
| Sefer Yetzirah | Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria Community Translation English | CC0-1.0 | Sefaria Community Translation, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). |
| Sifra | Sifra, tr. Shraga Silverstein English · Shraga Silverstein | CC-BY-3.0 | Mechilta, Sifra and Sifrei, translated by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein. CC BY. Text from Sefaria (sefaria.org). English translation: Sifra, translated by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein, via Sefaria (sefaria.org).
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Changes: footnotes and HTML formatting removed. |
| Sifrei on Deuteronomy | Sifrei Devarim (Hebrew) Hebrew | PD | Public-domain Hebrew editions, digitized by Sefaria (sefaria.org). |
| Sifrei on Deuteronomy | Sifrei Devarim, tr. Shraga Silverstein English · Shraga Silverstein | CC-BY-3.0 | Mechilta, Sifra and Sifrei, translated by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein. CC BY. Text from Sefaria (sefaria.org). English translation: Sifrei Devarim, translated by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein, via Sefaria (sefaria.org).
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Changes: footnotes and HTML formatting removed. |
| Sifrei on Numbers | Sifrei Bamidbar, tr. Shraga Silverstein English · Shraga Silverstein | CC-BY-3.0 | Mechilta, Sifra and Sifrei, translated by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein. CC BY. Text from Sefaria (sefaria.org). English translation: Sifrei Bamidbar, translated by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein, via Sefaria (sefaria.org).
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Changes: footnotes and HTML formatting removed. |
| Smaller Sukhāvatīvyūha | The Smaller Sukhāvatī-vyūha, tr. F. Max Müller English · F. Max Müller, 1894 | PD | Buddhist Mahāyāna Texts, Sacred Books of the East vol. 49 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894): the Buddha-karita of Aśvaghoṣa, translated by E. B. Cowell; the Larger and Smaller Sukhāvatī-vyūha, the Vagrakkhedikā and the Pragñā-pāramitā-hṛdaya-sūtra, translated by F. Max Müller. Public domain. Text read from scans in the Internet Archive. Buddhist Mahāyāna Texts, Sacred Books of the East 49 (1894). Public domain. Read from scans of the printed edition: every word was checked against three or four independent scans of the same printing and corrected where they agree; footnotes, running heads and page numbers are left out. Diacritics the OCR could not read are not reproduced. |
| Songs of the Ghost Dance | Songs of the Ghost Dance (original languages) Original · 1896 | PD | James Mooney, “The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890,” Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, part 2 (Washington, 1896). Public domain (U.S. government work). Text from Project Gutenberg eBook #74335; Mooney's commentary and glossaries omitted. |
| Songs of the Ghost Dance | Songs of the Ghost Dance, tr. James Mooney English · James Mooney, 1896 | PD | James Mooney, “The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890,” Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, part 2 (Washington, 1896). Public domain (U.S. government work). Text from Project Gutenberg eBook #74335; Mooney's commentary and glossaries omitted. |
| Sri Guru Granth Sahib | Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji (Gurmukhi) Gurmukhi | PD | Gurmukhi text of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji from the Shabad OS Database (release v5.0.0-next.0), digitised from Shabadaarth (SGPC, Sri Amritsar, 2009-2012). Identified by Shabad OS as public domain (Public Domain Mark 1.0). |
| Sri Guru Granth Sahib | The Japji, Rahiras and Sohila, tr. Max Arthur Macauliffe (1909) English · Max Arthur Macauliffe, 1909 | PD | Max Arthur Macauliffe, The Sikh Religion, its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, vol. 1 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909). Public domain. Text from English Wikisource's transcription of the scan, checked word by word against Internet Archive scans (thesikhreligion01macauoft, in.ernet.dli.2015.85504); Macauliffe's notes omitted. |
| Sūtrakṛtāṅga | Sûtrakritânga, tr. Hermann Jacobi English · Hermann Jacobi, 1895 | PD | Gaina Sûtras, Part II: The Uttarâdhyayana Sûtra, The Sûtrakritânga Sûtra, translated by Hermann Jacobi. Sacred Books of the East, vol. 45, ed. F. Max Müller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895). Public domain. Text read from the scan on Wikimedia Commons (digitised by the Internet Archive): English Wikisource's transcription where proofread, OCR elsewhere. |
| Sutta Piṭaka | Sutta Piṭaka (Pāli, Mahāsaṅgīti) Pāli | PD | Pāli text: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka Buddhavasse 2500 (M.L. Maniratana Bunnag Dhamma Society Fund), as published by SuttaCentral. Public domain. Pāli text: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka, via SuttaCentral. Public domain. |
| Sutta Piṭaka | Sutta Piṭaka, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato English · Bhikkhu Sujato, 2018 | CC0-1.0 | Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato. SuttaCentral, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato (SuttaCentral), dedicated to the public domain via CC0. The translator respectfully requests that any use be in accordance with the values and principles of the Buddhist community. In particular, please do not use this work in AI training datasets, for the development of any AI model or algorithm, or in any AI-derived technologies. |
| Tao Te Ching | 道德經 (王弼本) Classical Chinese | PD | Chinese text from Chinese Wikisource (zh.wikisource.org), transcribed by Wikisource volunteers. Public domain. |
| Tao Te Ching | Tao Te Ching, tr. James Legge English · James Legge, 1891 | PD | Translated by James Legge, The Texts of Tâoism, Part I, Sacred Books of the East vol. 39 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1891). Public domain. E-text from Project Gutenberg (#216), checked word by word against scans of the 1891 printing (Internet Archive). |
| The Analects | 論語 Classical Chinese | PD | Chinese text from Chinese Wikisource (zh.wikisource.org), transcribed by Wikisource volunteers. Public domain. |
| The Analects | The Analects, tr. James Legge English · James Legge, 1893 | PD | Translated by James Legge, The Chinese Classics, vol. 1: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning, and The Doctrine of the Mean, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1893). Public domain. E-text from Project Gutenberg (#4094), checked word by word against scans of the 1893 printing (Internet Archive). |
| The Apostolic Fathers | The Apostolic Fathers, tr. Roberts, Donaldson and Crombie English · Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and Frederick Crombie, 1870 | PD | The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers, translated by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and Frederick Crombie, Ante-Nicene Christian Library vol. 1 (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1870). Public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg eBook #77576; the editors' introductions and notes, the longer and Syriac recensions of Ignatius and the spurious Ignatian letters omitted. |
| The Bible | SBL Greek New Testament Greek · Michael W. Holmes (editor), 2010 | CC-BY-4.0 | The SBL Greek New Testament, ed. Michael W. Holmes. Copyright 2010 Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software. CC BY 4.0. Greek New Testament text: The SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT), edited by Michael W. Holmes.
Copyright 2010 by the Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software.
Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Source: https://github.com/LogosBible/SBLGNT (v1.2). Changes: apparatus sigla (⸀ ⸁ ⸂ ⸃ ⸄ ⸅) removed; book titles moved to headings. |
| The Bible | Westminster Leningrad Codex (Hebrew) Hebrew | CC-BY-4.0 | Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb (CC BY 4.0). Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain), from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible.
Original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb
(Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Changes: lemma and morphology markup removed; morpheme separators removed; qere readings shown in [brackets]
after the ketiv, which is shown in (parentheses); petucha/setuma marks omitted; verses renumbered to English
versification (Psalm titles moved to headings). |
| The Bible | Berean Standard Bible English · 2022 | PD | The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible, BSB. Dedicated to the public domain. |
| The Bible | King James Version (1769 standard text) English · 1769 | PD | The Holy Bible, King James Version (Authorized Version), standard text of 1769; electronic text courtesy of eBible.org and the CrossWire Bible Society. Public domain outside the United Kingdom. In the UK, rights in the Authorized Version are vested in the Crown under Letters Patent, administered by Cambridge University Press. |
| The Book of Mormon | The Book of Mormon English · 1830 | PD | The Book of Mormon (first published 1830), in the standard chapter and verse division of 1879. Public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg eBook #17. |
| The Conference of the Birds | Bird-Parliament, tr. Edward FitzGerald English · Edward FitzGerald, 1889 | PD | “A Bird's-Eye View of Farid-uddin Attar's Bird-Parliament,” by Edward FitzGerald, in Letters and Literary Remains of Edward FitzGerald, ed. William Aldis Wright, vol. 2 (London: Macmillan, 1889). Public domain. Text read from scans on the Internet Archive (University of Toronto; University of California Libraries). |
| The Confessions of al-Ghazali | The Confessions of al-Ghazali, tr. Claud Field English · Claud Field, 1909 | PD | The Confessions of Al Ghazzali, translated by Claud Field (London: John Murray, Wisdom of the East, 1909). Public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg eBook #58977; Field's introduction and footnotes omitted. |
| The Doctrine and Covenants | The Doctrine and Covenants (1891) English · 1891 | PD | The Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1891). Public domain. Read from two Internet Archive scans of that printing (doctrineandcove00saingoog, doctrinecovenantsmit), checked word by word against each other; the Lectures on Faith, index and footnotes are omitted. |
| The Doctrine of the Mean | 中庸 Classical Chinese | PD | Chinese text from Chinese Wikisource (zh.wikisource.org), transcribed by Wikisource volunteers. Public domain. |
| The Egyptian Book of the Dead | The Book of the Dead, tr. E. A. Wallis Budge English · E. A. Wallis Budge, 1901 | PD | The Book of the Dead according to the Theban Recension, translated by E. A. Wallis Budge, in Egyptian Literature, ed. Epiphanius Wilson (New York: Colonial Press, 1901). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread by English Wikisource volunteers; chapter numbers from Budge's The Book of the Dead: An English Translation (1901). |
| The Epic of Gilgamesh | The Flood (Tablet XI), tr. E. A. Wallis Budge English · E. A. Wallis Budge, 1920 | PD | The Eleventh Tablet of the Epic of Gilgamish (the Deluge), translated by E. A. Wallis Budge, in The Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamish (London: British Museum, 1920). Public domain. Transcription by Project Gutenberg volunteers (eBook #7096), corrected against the 1920 printing. |
| The Forty Hadith of an-Nawawī | al-Arbaʿūn an-Nawawiyya (Arabic) Arabic | PD | Yaḥyā ibn Sharaf an-Nawawī (d. 1277), al-Arbaʿūn an-Nawawiyya. Public domain. Arabic text from Arabic Wikisource, checked against an independent digital copy (fawazahmed0/hadith-api). |
| The Forty Hadith of an-Nawawī | The Forty Hadith, Atlas translation (AI-assisted, draft) English · Atlas editorial (AI-assisted), 2026 | ORIGINAL | Pantheon editorial (draft, pending expert review) |
| The Great Learning | 大學 Classical Chinese | PD | Chinese text from Chinese Wikisource (zh.wikisource.org), transcribed by Wikisource volunteers. Public domain. |
| The Guide for the Perplexed | The Guide for the Perplexed, tr. M. Friedländer (1903) English · Michael Friedländer, 1903 | PD | Moses Maimonides, The Guide for the Perplexed, translated by M. Friedländer, 2nd ed. (London: Routledge, 1904 [1903]). Public domain. Text from Sefaria (sefaria.org). |
| The Holy Piby | The Holy Piby English · 1924 | PD | The Holy Piby, by Robert Athlyi Rogers (Newark, N.J., 1924). Public domain. Transcribed by Project Gutenberg volunteers (Distributed Proofreaders) from the Duke University Rubenstein Library copy. |
| The Homeric Hymns | The Homeric Hymns, tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White English · Hugh G. Evelyn-White, 1914 | PD | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica, translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Loeb Classical Library (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1914; text of the 1920 printing). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread by English Wikisource volunteers; line numbers from Project Gutenberg eBook #348. |
| The Jerusalem Talmud | Jerusalem Talmud, ed. Guggenheimer (Hebrew/Aramaic) Hebrew | CC-BY-3.0 | The Jerusalem Talmud, edition, translation and commentary by Heinrich W. Guggenheimer (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1999–2015). CC BY. Text from Sefaria (sefaria.org); commentary notes omitted. Hebrew/Aramaic text: The Jerusalem Talmud, edition by Heinrich W. Guggenheimer (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1999–2015), via Sefaria (sefaria.org).
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Changes: footnotes and HTML formatting removed. |
| The Jerusalem Talmud | Jerusalem Talmud, tr. Heinrich W. Guggenheimer English · Heinrich W. Guggenheimer | CC-BY-3.0 | The Jerusalem Talmud, edition, translation and commentary by Heinrich W. Guggenheimer (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1999–2015). CC BY. Text from Sefaria (sefaria.org); commentary notes omitted. English translation: The Jerusalem Talmud, translation and commentary by Heinrich W. Guggenheimer (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1999–2015); commentary notes omitted, via Sefaria (sefaria.org).
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Changes: footnotes and HTML formatting removed. |
| The Kalevala | The Kalevala, tr. John Martin Crawford English · John Martin Crawford, 1888 | PD | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland, translated by John Martin Crawford (New York: John B. Alden, 1888). Public domain. Transcription by Project Gutenberg volunteers (eBook #5186), corrected against the 1888 printing. |
| The Kuzari | The Kuzari, tr. H. Hirschfeld (1905) English · Hartwig Hirschfeld, 1905 | PD | Judah Hallevi, Kitab al Khazari, translated by Hartwig Hirschfeld (London: Routledge, 1905). Public domain. Text from Sefaria (sefaria.org). |
| The Laws of Manu | The Laws of Manu, tr. Georg Bühler English · Georg Bühler, 1886 | PD | The Laws of Manu, translated by Georg Bühler. Sacred Books of the East, vol. 25, ed. F. Max Müller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1886). Public domain. Text read from the scan on Wikimedia Commons (digitised by the Internet Archive): English Wikisource's transcription where proofread, OCR elsewhere. |
| The Mabinogion | The Mabinogion, tr. Lady Charlotte Guest English · Lady Charlotte Guest, 1849 | PD | The Mabinogion, translated by Lady Charlotte Guest (first published 1838–1849). Public domain. Transcription by Project Gutenberg volunteers (eBook #5160), corrected against the printed editions of 1877 and 1913. |
| The Mishnah | Mishnah, ed. Romm, Vilna 1913 (Hebrew) Hebrew · 1913 | PD | Mishnah, ed. Romm (Vilna, 1913). Public domain. Digital text from Sefaria (sefaria.org). |
| The Mishnah | Mishnah Yomit, tr. Joshua Kulp English · Joshua Kulp | CC-BY-3.0 | Mishnah Yomit, translated by Dr. Joshua Kulp (Conservative Yeshiva, Jerusalem). CC BY. Text from Sefaria (sefaria.org). English translation: Mishnah Yomit by Dr. Joshua Kulp (Conservative Yeshiva, Jerusalem), via Sefaria (sefaria.org).
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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| The Path of the Just | Mesillat Yesharim (Hebrew) Hebrew | PD | Public-domain Hebrew editions, digitized by Sefaria (sefaria.org). |
| The Path of the Just | The Path of the Just, tr. Yosef Sebag English · Yosef Sebag | CC-BY-3.0 | Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Path of the Just, translated by Rabbi Yosef Sebag. CC BY. Text from Sefaria (sefaria.org). English translation: Path of the Just, translated by Rabbi Yosef Sebag, via Sefaria (sefaria.org).
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Changes: footnotes and HTML formatting removed. |
| The Poetic Edda | The Poetic Edda, tr. Henry Adams Bellows English · Henry Adams Bellows, 1923 | PD | The Poetic Edda, translated by Henry Adams Bellows (New York: American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1923). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread by English Wikisource volunteers. |
| The Prose Edda | The Prose Edda, tr. Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur English · Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, 1916 | PD | The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson, translated by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur (New York: American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1916). Public domain in the United States (published before 1931); the translator died in 1971, so it may still be protected in countries with longer terms. Transcribed and proofread by English Wikisource volunteers. |
| The Questions of King Milinda | The Questions of King Milinda, tr. T. W. Rhys Davids English · T. W. Rhys Davids, 1890 | PD | The Questions of King Milinda, translated from the Pāli by T. W. Rhys Davids, Sacred Books of the East vols. 35–36 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890–1894). Public domain. Text read from scans in the Internet Archive. The Questions of King Milinda, tr. T. W. Rhys Davids, Sacred Books of the East 35–36 (1890–1894). Public domain. Read from scans of the printed edition: every word was checked against three or four independent scans of the same printing and corrected where they agree; footnotes, running heads and page numbers are left out. Diacritics the OCR could not read are not reproduced. |
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| The Quran | The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (Pickthall, 1930) English · Marmaduke Pickthall, 1930 | PD | Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930). Text of the 1930 edition, transcribed by Wikisource contributors; remaining pages read by OCR from the Wikimedia Commons scan. |
| The Secret Doctrine | The Secret Doctrine: Stanzas of Dzyan with commentary English · 1893 | PD | H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, third and revised edition, vols. 1–2 (London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1893). Public domain. Transcribed by Project Gutenberg volunteers. |
| The Small Catechism | The Small Catechism, tr. Robert E. Smith English · Robert E. Smith, 2004 | PD | Martin Luther, The Small Catechism (1529), translated by Robert E. Smith for Project Wittenberg (1994, revised 2004) and placed in the public domain by him. Text from Project Gutenberg eBook #1670. |
| Theogony | Theogony, tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White English · Hugh G. Evelyn-White, 1914 | PD | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica, translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Loeb Classical Library (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1914; text of the 1920 printing). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread by English Wikisource volunteers; line numbers from Project Gutenberg eBook #348. |
| Uttarādhyayana Sūtra | Uttarâdhyayana Sûtra, tr. Hermann Jacobi English · Hermann Jacobi, 1895 | PD | Gaina Sûtras, Part II: The Uttarâdhyayana Sûtra, The Sûtrakritânga Sûtra, translated by Hermann Jacobi. Sacred Books of the East, vol. 45, ed. F. Max Müller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895). Public domain. Text read from the scan on Wikimedia Commons (digitised by the Internet Archive): English Wikisource's transcription where proofread, OCR elsewhere. |
| Vendidad | Vendîdâd, tr. James Darmesteter English · James Darmesteter, 1895 | PD | The Zend-Avesta, Part I: The Vendîdâd, translated by James Darmesteter, 2nd edition. Sacred Books of the East, vol. 4, ed. F. Max Müller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895). Public domain. Text read from the scan on Wikimedia Commons (digitised by the Internet Archive): English Wikisource's transcription where proofread, OCR elsewhere. |
| Vinaya Piṭaka | Vinaya Piṭaka (Pāli, Mahāsaṅgīti) Pāli | PD | Pāli text: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka Buddhavasse 2500 (M.L. Maniratana Bunnag Dhamma Society Fund), as published by SuttaCentral. Public domain. Pāli text: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka, via SuttaCentral. Public domain. |
| Vinaya Piṭaka | Vinaya Piṭaka, tr. Bhikkhu Brahmali English · Bhikkhu Brahmali, 2021 | CC0-1.0 | Translated by Bhikkhu Brahmali. SuttaCentral, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). Translated by Bhikkhu Brahmali (SuttaCentral), dedicated to the public domain via CC0. The translator respectfully requests that any use be in accordance with the values and principles of the Buddhist community. In particular, please do not use this work in AI training datasets, for the development of any AI model or algorithm, or in any AI-derived technologies. |
| Yashts | Yashts, tr. James Darmesteter English · James Darmesteter, 1883 | PD | The Zend-Avesta, Part II: The Sîrôzahs, Yasts, and Nyâyis, translated by James Darmesteter. Sacred Books of the East, vol. 23, ed. F. Max Müller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1883). Public domain. Text read from the scan on Wikimedia Commons (digitised by the Internet Archive): English Wikisource's transcription where proofread, OCR elsewhere. |
| Yasna | Yasna, tr. L. H. Mills English · L. H. Mills, 1887 | PD | The Zend-Avesta, Part III: The Yasna, Visparad, Âfrînagân, Gâhs, and Miscellaneous Fragments, translated by L. H. Mills. Sacred Books of the East, vol. 31, ed. F. Max Müller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1887). Public domain. Text read from the scan on Wikimedia Commons (digitised by the Internet Archive): English Wikisource's transcription where proofread, OCR elsewhere. |
| Zhuangzi | Chuang Tzŭ, tr. Herbert A. Giles (1889) English · Herbert A. Giles, 1889 | PD | Chuang Tzŭ: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer, translated by Herbert A. Giles (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1889). Public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg eBook #59709 (Distributed Proofreaders); Giles's arguments and comments omitted. |
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