The Ancient City of Ujjain

Ujjain is a lesser known ancient city of India. Like Varanasi it is one of the oldest cities in India. It is mentioned in the Mahabharata as the city where Lord Krishna and Balarama came to study under their guru. It was also an important capital in King Ashoka's Mauriyan Empire. It houses one of the oldest astronomical observatory built by King Raj Singh in the 1700's yet despite its rich history it is seldom a destination of the international tourist throngs. It's tourists are mainly pilgrims who come from all over India to imbibe in the many ancient temples and history of this town. There is only one website on this important city to Hinduism  www.ujjain.nic.in put up by the its government which is very unassuming but does the job good enough to plan a trip to this ancient city.

Ayurvedic Scripture Online: Charaka Samhita

If you are a student of ayurveda, the traditional Indian science of good health and healing you will have heard of the Sage Charaka. His treatise on medicine, the healing arts and doctoring is contained as part of Vedic Scripture in the Charaka Samhita and is the basis of ayurvedic science. A very simple online version of the Charaka Samhita is available at www.charakasamhita.com. The website is very simple and is based on 54 basic questions about ayurveda, its philosophy, understanding of the bodies physiology and cures. The questions lead are links to pages with brief answers excerpted (though not referenced) from the Charaka Samhita. If you are looking for a quick glance or overview of the Charaka Samhita, this is a good website to browse.

Shiva Temple of Tamilnadu–One of the best site available

If you are looking for website that has the best information on Shiva Temples of Tamilnadu, especially temples that the Saivite Saints had sung about, this website shivatemples.com is the place to look. Organized according to the geography of ancient Tamil Kingdoms such as Kongai Nadu, Pandiya Nadu etc., the site provides excellent information about these temples, many of which are hard to find on other sites. Indeed nowhere in India is there such density of Hindu temples as in the Land of Temple, the state of Tamilnadu in India. It is great to have such a well organized site dedicated to Shiva temples. Hats off to the creators of this website who obviously did much research and organized the site in meaningful terms for Saivite pilgrims especially of Tamil origin. I hope they will venture into temple of other deities that are abundant in Tamilnadu–such as the temples of Lord Ganesha, Lord Murugan, Goddess Amman and Lord Vishnu. The site also has a Tamil version to it. Hindusearchengine.com has absorbed the links of this website into its database.

Sanskritdocuments.org is a rudimentary yet comprehensive online collection point for Sanskrit scriptural texts. It allows these texts to be downloaded as documents in various versions such as Post Script, PDF, ITX and so forth. Most of these texts are scriptural or liturgical, some with translations or transliterations in english or other languages. If you are looking to maintain your own library or looking for original sanskrit verses for use this is certainly the place to look. It has three main categories to choose from: Scriptures, Deities and Miscellaneous. They also maintain a resource list of scanned books and audio files on other site. This entire site is now available for search on HinduSearchEngine.com.