Sanatana Vedika
సనాతన వేదిక · the platform of the eternal
A reading library of the sacred texts — the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gita, both epics and the Puranas — in Telugu, Sanskrit, Kannada and English, on a phone, without a network.
What this is
Sanatana Vedika holds the canon as a reader actually approaches it: by shelf, by book, by chapter and verse. Every passage carries its own reference, is stored separately in four languages, and can be read with the device in flight mode.
It exists because that shelf is scattered. The texts are online, but spread across academic archives in transliteration schemes a lay reader cannot read, print editions long out of print, and apps that carry a single book each. A Telugu reader who wants the Rigveda in their own script, with the citation intact, has had nowhere to go.
Why it matters
Every verse is taken from an established scholarly edition and checked against its canonical structure before it is added. No scripture here was written by a machine — a plausible-sounding invented sloka is far worse than a missing one.
Telugu and Kannada verses are exact, deterministic transliterations of the Sanskrit — the same syllables in another script, so they can still be chanted. Script and meaning are kept strictly apart.
Search runs inside the verses themselves and returns a real reference —
Bhagavad Gita 2.47 — whether you searched in Devanagari, Telugu,
transliteration or the English meaning.
A downloaded book reads and plays with no connection at all — on a pilgrimage, in a temple town, on a train. The panchangam is computed on the device rather than fetched.
Reference material — festivals, temples, gotras, genealogies, the pantheon — is authored in Telugu and Kannada alongside English, not machine-translated from an English original.
Buddha or Balarama in the ninth avatara; which seven rishis for which manvantara. Variants are shown as variants instead of one reading being quietly chosen.
The corpus
| Shelf | Books | Passages |
|---|---|---|
| Puranas | 50 | 143,771 |
| Itihasas — the epics | 49 | 140,249 |
| Upapuranas | 39 | 55,793 |
| Vedas | 40 | 18,917 |
| Tantras | 16 | 13,558 |
| Upanishads | 108 | 8,237 |
| Sahasranamas | 18 | 2,778 |
| Bhagavad Gita | 1 | 701 |
| Stotras | 23 | 366 |
| Learn the languages | 60 | 309 |
| Kavachams | 11 | 198 |
| Suktas | 20 | 189 |
| Avatars | 15 | 179 |
| Temples (reference) | 10 | 83 |
| Genealogies | 8 | 78 |
| Gotras | 12 | 57 |
| Rishis | 8 | 56 |
| Festivals | 18 | 54 |
| Vratas | 13 | 52 |
| Pooja vidhis | 14 | 42 |
| Chants & Japa | 3 | 38 |
| Agamas | 30 | not yet sourced |
What is not finished Of the 566 books on the shelves, 79 are catalogued but not yet filled — the title is listed, the text has still to be sourced from an authoritative edition. The largest single gap is the Agama shelf (30 books, empty in full); the rest are scattered — parts of the Upapuranas (15) and Itihasas (10), some Tantras (9), and a handful of Suktas, Kavachams, Puranas, Sahasranamas and one Veda whose editions we have not yet located. Empty books read as empty inside the app rather than being hidden. Separately, prose meanings exist for 26,018 passages, roughly 7% of the corpus; the rest carry the verse in four scripts with no commentary yet. Every gap is stated inside the app too, not papered over.
The application
One pada per line, adjustable type, and an auto-advance timer from five seconds to five minutes so a path can be read hands-free. Any verse can be shared as a typeset image.
A drik panchangam from your own location — tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana, Rahu kalam and the festivals of the year, with no network call at any point.
An illustrated introduction to the pantheon — from Brahman through the Trimurti to the ganas, the five elements and the fourteen lokas — with a diagram per god showing family, forms and avataras as a tree.
Recitation audio where it exists, whole books downloadable for offline reading, and verse-level search across the entire corpus.
Every temple browsable by deity and by country — 40 countries in all — each with its location on a map, a sourced description of its origin and significance, and where the record has them, the year built and the canonical set it belongs to (the twelve jyotirlingas, the Char Dham, the Arupadai Veedu). Drawn from Wikidata and Wikipedia, never invented.
Reference
com.sanatanavedika.spiritualIdentity
The crest carries the śūla and the dhanus with the bāṇa nocked flanking the Sudarshana chakra — the third eye opened at its hub, the ॐ beneath it, the whole standing on a three-tiered vedika. The ॐ is a true glyph outline rather than a hand-drawn approximation.
The application icon drops the two standards. At forty-eight pixels five symbols collapse into one another, so the launcher is given the chakra and the ॐ alone — a resolution budget, not a simplification of the idea.