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+# 📜 Puranas Dataset (Cleaned CSV Format)
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+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.