Rgvedasamhita

edited September 2021 in Releases

Rgvedasamhita (ഋഗ്വേദസംഹിത) is an excellent Malayalam translation of the ancient Indian scripture, Rgveda. This monumental work (with exhaustive annotation) by the poet, Vallathol Narayana Menon has entered public domain and Sayahna Foundation used the opportunity to digitise the content and release the same in different digital formats under the terms of Creative Commons By ShareAlike licence for public consumption with all freedoms allowed by the license.

TEI (P5) encoded XML:

https://books.sayahna.org/xml/rgvedasamhita-1.xml
https://books.sayahna.org/xml/rgvedasamhita-2.xml
https://books.sayahna.org/xml/rgvedasamhita-3.xml
https://books.sayahna.org/xml/rgvedasamhita-4.xml

HTML5:

https://books.sayahna.org/html/rgvedasamhita-1.html
https://books.sayahna.org/html/rgvedasamhita-2.html
https://books.sayahna.org/html/rgvedasamhita-3.html
https://books.sayahna.org/html/rgvedasamhita-4.html

PDF (standard book format):

https://books.sayahna.org/ml/pdf/rgvedasamhita-1.pdf
https://books.sayahna.org/ml/pdf/rgvedasamhita-2.pdf
https://books.sayahna.org/ml/pdf/rgvedasamhita-3.pdf
https://books.sayahna.org/ml/pdf/rgvedasamhita-4.pdf

Each of the suktams (സൂക്തം) are also available separately as individual standalone html pages to make the access easier on smart devices. A contents page that help navigate easily to any individual suktam in any mandala (മണ്ഡലം) or anuvaka (അനുവാകം) or ashtaka (അഷ്ടകം) or chapter (അദ്ധ്യായം) is also provided at:

https://books.sayahna.org/html/sfn-rgvedasamhita-cover.html

The PDF and XML have been generated from LaTeX sources using LuaTeX-dev (of course, L3 packages) and all the HTML pages have been generated from XML with a special XSLT stylesheet and the current version of Saxon Home Edition.

Comments and suggestions for improvement are welcome.
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