About Sanatan Sindhu

Sanatan Sindhu is a growing, freely-readable reference for Sanātana Dharma — scripture, deities, philosophy, festivals, and living practice — written to be read by anyone curious about the tradition, from a first-time visitor to a longtime practitioner looking for a citation.

We try to hold two things at once: primary-source fidelity (verbatim Sanskrit, named commentators, cited texts) and plain, unpretentious English that doesn't assume prior familiarity. Where traditions disagree with each other — and they often do — we try to show that disagreement rather than flatten it into one "official" answer.

Most of the research behind this site's essays — cross-referencing verses, commentaries, and named scholars across traditions — is produced with substantial assistance from AI research tools. We use AI to move faster through a genuinely enormous body of source material: eighteen Purāṇas, two itihāsas, and centuries of commentary across multiple schools of thought.

Every piece is directed and reviewed by a human editor before it's published, and we cite primary sources and named commentators throughout, so claims can be checked against the tradition itself — not just against us.

We're telling you this plainly, upfront, rather than leaving you to guess. If you're the kind of reader who wants to know how something was made before you trust it, this is that answer.

We treat this as a living reference, not a finished book. If something on the site misquotes a verse, misattributes a commentary, or gets a name or date wrong, please tell us — we'll fix it, and where it matters, note the correction.

The site is fully readable in English, and most long-form essays, every story, and the reference/legal pages are also available in Hindi (हिन्दी) — use the language switcher in the header to change it. Spanish, Chinese and Arabic are planned, but not offered yet: we'd rather wait until a language is genuinely finished than put a thin, machine-translated shell in front of you.