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27 editions

Dhammapada · en

Bhikkhu Sujato · English

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CC0 · Bhikkhu Sujato

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Dhammapada · en

F. Max Müller · historical edition

F. Max Müller · Gutenberg 2017

Historical translation; Gutenberg US public-domain record. Some adjacent verses are combined in the source and retain range identifiers.

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Quran · en

Marmaduke Pickthall · historical digital edition

Marmaduke Pickthall · Gutenberg 16955

Original translation published 1930; source printing unidentified. Gutenberg electronic text; four malformed reference headings repaired, with wording preserved.

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Bible · en

World English Bible · Protestant edition

World English Bible · ENGWEBP

Public-domain dedication by the WEB publisher. Preserve translation wording and edition name.

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Bhagavad Gita · en

K. M. Ganguli · historical prose edition

Kisari Mohan Ganguli · Gutenberg 15475

Historical translation, 1883–1896; excerpt from Book VI, sections XXV–XLII. Electronic chapter labels are editorial.

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Dao De Jing · en

James Legge · historical edition

James Legge · Gutenberg 216

Historical translation; Gutenberg US public-domain record. Digital source printing unidentified.

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Udāna · en

Bhikkhu Sujato · English

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CC0 · Bhikkhu Sujato

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Itivuttaka · en

Bhikkhu Sujato · English

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Therīgāthā · en

Walton & Sujato · English

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CC0 · Jessica Walton and Bhikkhu Sujato

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Early Buddhist discourses · en

Bhikkhu Sujato · English

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CC0 · Bhikkhu Sujato

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Tanakh · en

JPS 1917 · English

Jewish Publication Society of America, 1917; digital text courtesy of eBible.org

Public Domain

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Īśā Upanishad · en

F. Max Müller 1879 · English

F. Max Müller, The Upanishads, Part I, Sacred Books of the East I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879), Vâgasaneyi-samhitâ-upanishad, pp.311–314. Wikisource contributors, revision 10348698; compared with print scan and corrected as logged.

Historical printed translation public domain; Wikisource transcription reused with CC BY-SA 4.0 attribution and logged scan corrections

All 18 numbered translation paragraphs, including translator parentheticals; footnotes, prefatory matter and the unnumbered essay beginning on p.314 are outside this main-text edition.

Independent Sanskrit print edition and historical English translation. Side-by-side availability does not assert that Müller translated this exact printed witness or that every reading is equivalent; no verified correspondence mapping supplied. In verse 3 Roer reads asūryā, while Müller renders Asuras.

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Kena Upanishad · en

F. Max Müller 1879 · English

F. Max Müller, The Upanishads, Part I, Sacred Books of the East I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879), Talavakâra-upanishad, pp.147–153. Wikisource contributors, revision 11374414; all 35 body paragraphs scan-checked, two quotation-mark omissions restored.

Historical printed translation public domain; Wikisource transcription reused with CC BY-SA 4.0 attribution and logged scan corrections

All 35 numbered main-text paragraphs in four khaṇḍas (9/5/12/9). Translator footnotes, introductions and apparatus excluded; embedded parentheticals retained.

Independent Sanskrit witness and historical English translation; no automatic alignment. Müller II.1 explicitly omits words of the received Sanskrit (his p.148 footnote); IV.2 and IV.4–5 likewise reflect declared translation/editorial choices.

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Kaṭha Upanishad · en

F. Max Müller 1884 · English

F. Max Müller, The Upanishads, Part II, Sacred Books of the East XV (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1884), Kaṭha-upanishad, pp. 1–24. Wikisource contributors, revision 9500995; complete main-text scan review and 18 logged correction records in KATHA-ENGLISH-COLLATION.md.

Historical printed translation public domain; Wikisource transcription reused with CC BY-SA 4.0 attribution and logged scan corrections

All 120 numbered main-text paragraphs in six vallīs: 29/25/17/15/15/19. Includes the 119 core paragraphs and separately numbered final peace invocation VI.19. Translator footnotes and introductions excluded; embedded parentheticals retained. References use six vallīs numbered 1–6; in the two-adhyāya system, vallīs 4–6 are 2.1–2.3. English 6.19 is the closing invocation.

Independent historical translation and Sanskrit edition. Müller ends at VI.19 (peace invocation), Sanskrit GRETIL ends at VI.18; no verified correspondence table. Müller III.1 lacks the five-fires phrase in Sanskrit, faithfully retained as printed.

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Bible · en

World English Bible · Catholic Book Order

World English Bible Updated, Catholic Book Order. Published by eBible.org.

Public domain by the publisher’s dedication. World English Bible is a trademark of eBible.org. The translation wording is preserved.

73 books, including seven deuterocanonical books and the longer Greek forms of Esther and Daniel.

A Catholic book set and order in the World English Bible translation family. The publisher identifies the edition by its canon. Numbering follows this edition, including its Greek Esther and Daniel.

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Dhammapada · pli

Mahāsaṅgīti · Pali

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Public domain · Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka Buddhavasse 2500

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Udāna · pli

Mahāsaṅgīti · Pali

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Public domain · Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka Buddhavasse 2500

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Itivuttaka · pli

Mahāsaṅgīti · Pali

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Public domain · Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka Buddhavasse 2500

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Therīgāthā · pli

Mahāsaṅgīti · Pali

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Public domain · Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka Buddhavasse 2500

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Early Buddhist discourses · pli

Mahāsaṅgīti · Pali

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Public domain · Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka Buddhavasse 2500

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Bible · he

WLC · Hebrew / Aramaic Old Testament

Westminster Hebrew Institute, Philadelphia; eBible.org; contributor United Bible Societies

Public Domain

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Bible · grc

SBLGNT · Greek New Testament

Copyright 2010 Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software

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Quran · ar

Tanzil Uthmani · Arabic

Copyright (C) 2007-2026 Tanzil Project

CC BY 3.0 with publisher verbatim-copy conditions; text modification prohibited

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Tanakh · he

UXLC · Hebrew

Unicode/XML Leningrad Codex: UXLC 2.6 (27.7), Tanach.us Inc., West Redding, CT, USA, Oct 2026

Publisher permission: all biblical Hebrew text in any format may be viewed or copied without restriction

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Īśā Upanishad · sa

Roer 1850 · Sanskrit mūla (IAST)

E. Roer (ed.), Bibliotheca Indica VIII (Calcutta, 1850), pp.4–27; scan: Asiatic Society/Digital Library of India, via Internet Archive. Normalized IAST transcription prepared for this project, using the Sansknet/GRETIL Īśa mūla as a comparison scaffold. GRETIL, SUB Göttingen, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Changes and scan-page references documented in UPANISHAD-CANDIDATE-REVIEW.md.

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 for the adapted digital text; Roer 1850 print itself is public domain

All 18 numbered mūla verses; excludes Śaṅkara/Ānandagiri commentary, preliminary invocation, and apparatus. Normalized IAST: word spacing, nasal signs, post-r consonant doubling, punctuation and line breaks normalized; the print witness is Devanagari.

Independent Sanskrit print edition and historical English translation. Side-by-side availability does not assert that Müller translated this exact printed witness or that every reading is equivalent; no verified correspondence mapping supplied. In verse 3 Roer reads asūryā, while Müller renders Asuras.

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Kena Upanishad · sa

Roer 1850 · Sanskrit mūla (IAST)

E. Roer (ed.), Bibliotheca Indica VIII (Calcutta: J. Thomas, Baptist Mission Press,1850), Kena/Talavakāra mūla, printed pp.32–71; scan: Asiatic Society/Digital Library of India via Internet Archive. Fresh visual transcription for this project; normalization and source-reading notes retained. No modern Sanskrit e-text used as transcription input.

Public-domain historical print; fresh normalized IAST transcription prepared from the scan for this project

All 34 numbered main-text passages in four khaṇḍas (8/5/12/9). Invocations, chapter colophons and commentary are excluded. Sanskrit is shown in normalized IAST. Passage 4.4 retains the printed itīti; in 4.6 a visible dot is represented as yaṃ. Whether that dot is type or an ink blemish is uncertain.

The editions use different divisions. Roer’s passage 1.3 combines material numbered 1.3–1.4 by Müller, giving eight Sanskrit passages and nine English paragraphs in the first chapter. No automatic alignment is asserted.

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Kaṭha Upanishad · sa

GRETIL Sanskrit · IAST, edited readings

Vienna University Student Team (SoSe 2016), Sanskrit input/proofreading based on Patrick Olivelle, The Early Upaniṣads: Annotated Text and Translation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 374–402; GRETIL, SUB Göttingen, TEI version 2020-07-31, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Three project orthographic corrections and one declared variant choice supported by E. Roer (ed.), Bibliotheca Indica VIII (Calcutta, 1850), logged in UPANISHAD-CANDIDATE-REVIEW.md.

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; includes four explicitly documented text adaptations (three orthographic corrections, one variant choice). Noncommercial use only; share adaptations under the same license.

All 119 numbered GRETIL Sanskrit mūla segments in six vallīs; source normalized anusvāra/anunāsika and editorial corrections explicitly disclosed. References use six vallīs numbered 1–6; in the two-adhyāya system, vallīs 4–6 are 2.1–2.3. English 6.19 is the closing invocation.

Independent editions, no verified alignment. Sanskrit 1.1–6.18; Müller 1.1–6.19 includes peace invocation. Identical reference numbers do not prove identical underlying readings.

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Digital provenance

We preserve source wording and document transcription changes. Passage numbers and chapter divisions can differ between editions. A source match establishes faithful transcription, not agreement with a translation or interpretation.

Transcription notes and snapshot checksums

Original snapshots are preserved in the repository. Formatting whitespace is normalized. Four malformed Quran reference headings were repaired by their surrounding sequence: 0.033 → 017.033; 039.04 → 039.046; 04.032 → 045.032; 05.026 → 056.026. Translation wording is unchanged.

Dhammapada has nine combined verse pairs: these retain range identifiers. Ganguli’s prose is referenced by chapter and frozen paragraph; electronic chapter headings and end-of-lesson labels are editorial material.

Gutenberg public-domain records are US records. Edition-specific source and reuse evidence is retained; modern translations and annotations are not imported under an assumption that ancient works have no copyright.

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Snapshot checksums

quran.txt · 2026-10-31
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bible.zip · 2026-10-31
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gita.html · 2026-10-31
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tao.txt · 2026-10-31
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dhammapada.txt · 2026-10-31
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Hebrew Bible: composition across centuries ↗

Codex Sinaiticus ↗

The Gutenberg Bible ↗

WEB drafts distributed on eBible.org ↗

Commentarial narratives ↗

Müller’s Dhammapada in print ↗

Digital transcription ↗

Mawangdui tomb sealed ↗

Legge’s translation tradition ↗

Composition in the epic tradition ↗

Wilkins’s English translation ↗

Digital edition and chapter labels ↗

Birmingham parchment range ↗

Pickthall’s English translation ↗

Gutenberg electronic text ↗

Eight early Buddhist discourses in a bilingual digital publication ↗

The JPS English translation ↗

Kena in Roer’s Sanskrit volume ↗

Müller’s English translation in SBE I ↗

Müller’s Talavakāra translation ↗

Müller’s Kaṭha translation in print ↗

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Biblia latina · Mainz ↗

Biblia latina · Venice ↗

Biblia latina · Piacenza ↗

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Psalterium cum canticis [Greek and Latin] · Milan ↗

Psalterium latinum · Messina ↗

Psalterium Romanum · Paris ↗

Psalterium cum canticis · Zaragoza ↗

Psalterium cum canticis · Magdeburg ↗

Psalterium · Ghent ↗

Psalterium latinum · Leipzig ↗

Psalterium Romanum cum hymnis et antiphonis · Castano Primo ↗

Psalterium · Antwerp ↗

Psalterium Romanum · Florence ↗

A dated Qur’an copied in Isfahan ↗

The Great Isaiah Scroll from Cave 1 ↗

The garden and its loss ↗

Noah and the flood ↗

Abraham: departure, visitors and a test ↗

Joseph in Genesis ↗

Moses in Exodus ↗

Ruth and Naomi ↗

The birth of Jesus in Luke ↗

Baptism and temptation in Matthew ↗

The Samaritan and the injured traveller ↗

The father and two sons ↗

Passion and resurrection in Luke ↗

Yusuf in Surah 12 ↗

Musa in Surahs 28 and 20 ↗

Maryam and the birth of Isa ↗

Musa and the knowledgeable servant ↗

Sulayman and the queen of Saba ↗

Arjuna’s crisis ↗

The universal form ↗

The dialogue’s conclusion ↗

Bāhiya’s request ↗

Shelter from the storm ↗

Meghiya and the mango grove ↗

Who is most dear? ↗

The elephant and partial views ↗

Ubbirī’s grief ↗

Paṭācārā: water and a lamp ↗

Puṇṇikā and the bathing brahmin ↗

Isidāsī tells her story ↗

Rāhula and reflection on actions ↗

The Kālāmas’ uncertainty ↗

Sigālaka and the six directions ↗

Against the current ↗

The gods and the unknown presence ↗

Naciketas visits Death ↗

Death’s teaching to Naciketas ↗

Kisā Gotamī & the mustard seed ↗

Cakkhupāla: intention & harm ↗

Confucius asks Laozi about ritual ↗

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