The Harvard Oriental Series

The Harvard Oriental Series is an impressive book series. The editorial work began in 1891 and currently the 93rd volume, Ritual Speech in the Himalayas: Oral Texts and Their Contexts, was published in 2018. The first 37 volumes were published during 1891 and 1934. They are now in the Public Domain and here I present the works I have been able to find from various sources. I am still searching for the rest of the books. Some of the books here below are scanned by hand others by the Google Book Project. The quality varies a lot, but the are all readable. I have deleted many empty pages and tried to compress the PDF-files in order to get the file sizes down without too much loss of quality. Still the largest files are more than 125 MB. Here is the official site of the project: Link. Wikipedia has a more in-depth article about the project here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Oriental_Series.

The works focuses on classical Buddhist and Hindu text, such as stories of Buddha’s former incarnations, Samkhya philosophy, The Vedas, The Upanishads and The Bhagavad Gita.

Download the first 39 books in The Harvard Oriental Series here:

1 The Jataka-Mala

2 Samkhya-Pravacana-Bhasya

3 Buddhism in Translations

4 Rajasekhara’s Karpuramanjari

5 The Brhad-devata attributed to Saunaka Part 1

6 The Brhad-devata attributed to Saunaka Part 2

7 Atharva Veda Samhita Part 1

8 Atharva Veda Samhita Part 2

9 Mrcchakatika by Shudraka

12 The Panchatantra of Purnabhadra Part 2

13 The Panchatantra of Purnabhadra Part 3

14 The Panchatantra of Purnabhadra Part 4

15 Kiratarjuniya of Bharavi

17 The Yoga-System of Patanjali

18 The Veda of the Black Yajus School Part 1

20 Rig-Veda Repetitions

21 Rama’s Later History or Uttara-Rama-Charita by Bhavabhuti

24 Rig-Veda Repetitions, Parts 2 and 3

25 Rigveda Brahmanas

26 Vikrama’s Adventures Part 1

27 Vikrama’s Adventures Part 2

29 Buddhist Legends Part 2

31 The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads Part 1

37 Buddha’s Teachings

38-39 The Bhagavad Gita