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I came across two excellent ebook blogs which provide lots of sanatan e books. Links are here: http://hinduebooks.blogspot.com/ http://hinduebooks.wordpress.com/

http://www.archive.org/details/The_Aryabhatiya_of_Aryabhata_Clark_1930 The Aryabhatiya of Aryabhata (CE 476 to 500) is one of the most important texts in the history of Indian mathematics and astronomy. He composed this work at the age of 23. Here are some of his noted achievements that are found in Aryabhatiya: 1. Aryabhata asserted that the Moon and planets shine by reflected sunlight and that the orbits of the planets are ellipses. 2. He also correctly explained the causes of eclipses of the Sun and the Moon. 3. His value for the length of the sidereal year at 365 days 6 hours 12 minutes 30 seconds is only 3 minutes 20 seconds longer than the true value of 365 days 6 hours 9 minutes 10 seconds. 4. He estimated the value of 'Pi' as : "Add four to one hundred, multiply by eight and then add sixty-two thousand. The result is approximately the circumference of a circle of diameter twenty thousand. By this rule the relation of the circumference to diameter is given." In

A recent study reveals how human migrated from India to other part of world. http://evolutsioon.ut.ee/publications/Kivisild2000.pdf

Literature and Local Legends have continued to keep alive the image of Rama as a popular legendary hero, a righteous man, a noble King, a God. The conviction about the historicity of Rama, is based upon the ability to date Rama and the Rama Setu, to around 5200 BCE, ie 7200 years ago using traditional methods and validate the date scientifically too. Get the detailed information here. http://www.historicalrama.org/home.html

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This post have links about life and great work of Shri Tulasidas Ji. Short Biography https://sites.google.com/site/goswamitulsidasji/home http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsidas http://www.dharmakshetra.com/sages/Saints/tulasi%20das%20goswami.html Work http://wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8 http://sanskritdocuments.org/hindi/tulasi/

http://www.hindupedia.com/en/Stotra Vedanta Library http://www.celextel.org/ Strotras and Shruti http://stotraratna.awardspace.com/index.html

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A good website on Sanatan Stories. http://www.indolink.com/Kidz/mythology.html

Look at the page no 24 for Siddham Script in Japan and its resemblance with Devnagari script. http://www.hindueducation.org/resources/HinduInfluenceOnJapan.pdf Find more information and links at http://www.omniglot.com/writing/siddham.htm

कराग्रे वसते लक्ष्मी, करमध्य सरस्वती। करमूले तु गोविन्द:, प्रभाते कर दर्शनम्।। समुद्र वसने देवि, पर्वत स्तन मण्डले। विष्णु पत्नी: नमस्तुभ्यम्, पाद स्पर्शम् क्षमस्व मे।।

Online tutorial on elementary vedic maths. http://www.vedicmaths.org/Introduction/Tutorial/Tutorial.asp Books on Advanced Vedic Mathematics. गणित-शास्त्र के विकास की भारतीय परम्परा http://pustak.org/bs/home.php?bookid=4545 http://pustak.org/bs/home.php?bookid=7 http://pustak.org/bs/home.php?bookid=2557 http://pustak.org/bs/home.php?bookid=2558 References http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~moorthy/vm/index.html http://www.vedamu.org/home.asp

These links explore the biography of the one of the greatest Statesmen Chanakya . His two major works are the Arthashastra and the Nitishastra . The Arthashastra lays the rules of governance and gives a detailed account of the state of affairs and polity at that time. The Nitishastra speaks more of morals, principles and observance of austerity in all walks of life. http://www.philosophy.ru/library/asiatica/indica/authors/kautilya/canakya_niti_sastra.html http://projectsouthasia.sdstate.edu/Docs/history/primarydocs/Arthashastra/ http://www.worldofbiography.com/9046-Chanakya/ http://www.freeindia.org/biographies/greatpersonalities/chanakya/index.htm http://www.hindutemplesc.org/balagokulam/BGDownloads/Chanakya.pdf http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/chanakya.html http://www.indiavideo.org/text/chaanakya-1074.php?pg=34 Hindi TV serial on Biography of Chanakya http://www.veoh.com/collection/Kautilya/watch/v16822254kXBzEamb #

This website is dedicated to the Great Saint Late Swami Ramsukhdas Ji Maharaj. http://www.swamiramsukhdasji.org/ A tribute to Swami Ramsukhdas (an obituary) from Organiser magazine. http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=90&page=17 And one more blog on Swamiji http://sanatanavenkat.blogspot.com/2008/03/swamy-ramsukhdas-rishi-extraordinary.html This news posted on rediff when He was alive. http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/jan/08swami.htm

A vast collection of rare Sankrit Documents. http://sanskritdocuments.org/ Vedic mathematics and science http://www.vedamu.org/home.asp