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# 📜 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.

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## 📚 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.

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## 🧹 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

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## 📂 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  

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## 🎯 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

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## ⚠️ 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.

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## 📌 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.

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## 👤 Maintainer

Maintained by: **dataspoof**

For issues, improvements, or collaboration, feel free to open an issue or pull request.