📜 Puranas Dataset (Cleaned CSV Format)
This repository contains cleaned and structured CSV datasets of major Hindu Puranas, originally sourced from the
GRETIL – Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages.
🔗 Original Source: https://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretil.html
The raw Sanskrit texts were extracted from GRETIL and processed into machine-readable CSV format for research, NLP, and data science applications.
📚 About the Source
GRETIL (Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages)
Maintained by the University of Göttingen, Germany.
GRETIL provides digitized classical Indian texts, primarily in transliterated Sanskrit (IAST format).
This repository does not claim ownership of the original texts.
It only provides cleaned and structured versions for research purposes.
🧹 Data Cleaning & Processing Steps
The following preprocessing steps were applied:
- Removed header and footer metadata
- Cleaned encoding inconsistencies
- Standardized verse formatting
- Removed special characters and irregular spacing
- Normalized verse numbering
- Structured text into tabular format
- Added Devanagari script (where applicable)
- Exported into CSV format
📂 Available Puranas
The dataset includes cleaned CSV files for:
- Agni Purana
- Bhagavata Purana
- Brahmanda Purana
- Brahma Purana
- Devi Bhagavata
- Garuda Purana
- Kurma Purana
- Markandeya Purana
- Matsya Purana
- Narada Purana
- Narasimha Purana
- Shiva Purana (Books 1 & 7)
- Skanda Purana (Reva Khanda)
- Vamana Purana (Saromahatmya)
- Vayu Purana (Revakhanda)
- Vishnu Purana
🎯 Possible Use Cases
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Sanskrit language modeling
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Knowledge graph construction
- Topic modeling
- Semantic search systems
- Digital humanities research
- Comparative scriptural studies
⚠️ Disclaimer
- The original texts are sourced from GRETIL.
- This repository provides cleaned and structured data for educational and research purposes only.
- Please refer to GRETIL for the original and authoritative versions.
📌 Citation
If you use this dataset in academic or research work, please cite:
GRETIL – Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages
https://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretil.html
and reference this repository accordingly.
👤 Maintainer
Maintained by: dataspoof
For issues, improvements, or collaboration, feel free to open an issue or pull request.