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The Oxford Sanskrit Text Society

The Oxford Sanskrit Text Society is a global initiative to facilitate diffusion, dissemination, and appreciation of the corpus of Sanskrit texts from Vedic/Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain intellectual traditions, and the belles lettres, canonical or non-canonical, in the Sanskrit original and their modern translations, mainly in English and Hindi. The STS fosters and facilitates diffusion, dissemination, and appreciation of a wide-ranging corpus of Sanskrit texts from Vedic/Hindu, Bauddha, and Jaina intellectual traditions, canonical or non-canonical, in the Sanskrit original and their modern translations, mainly in English and in special cases also in major Asian languages such as Hindi.

Overview

Sanskrit Text Society (STS, संस्कृतविद्यासदनम्) is established at Oxford with the support of Sanskrit connoisseurs, enthusiasts, and scholars specializing in various traditional knowledge systems of India. The STS fosters and facilitates diffusion, dissemination, and appreciation of a wide-ranging corpus of Sanskrit texts from Vedic/Hindu, Bauddha, and Jaina intellectual traditions...

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Our Objective

For a deeper understanding of the Indic world, specifically pre-modern history, language, culture and society of India, it is necessary to read Sanskrit texts anew. For this purpose, it is desired that as many Sanskrit texts as possible are published in one series together with scholarly translations for the use of scholars, students, as well as informed non-specialists.

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Our History & Future

A little more than one and a half century ago, in 1865, Prof. Theodor Goldstücker had launched a Sanskrit Text Society in London, but after publishing four volumes of Sanskrit texts that society went into oblivion. It is time now to re-establish the Society for the study and research of Sanskrit texts of all genres and disciplines, and for their wider distribution. When it comes to the identification, study...

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Announcements

  • 📢 New Sanskrit Text Publication Coming Soon!
  • 📢 Online Webinar on Buddhist Philosophy - March 10, 2025
  • 📢 Summer School on Himalayan Culture - Registrations Open!

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