Shastra Vault
A painting in the old Gujarati manuscript style: a lamp-lit stone doorway opening onto shelves of manuscripts wrapped in red cloth, a peacock on the threshold.
Rare Indian texts

Opened
verse by verse.

शास्त्रकोशः

We open rare Indian texts that few people have read, from Sanskrit śāstras to Tamil Siddha works, and tell their stories straight from the original language, with every claim tied to a verse you can check.

Two young wrestlers kneel and touch the red earth of an akhāṛā in salute at dawn, an old teacher watching under a banyan tree.
Now reading · Season 1

Mallapurāṇa मल्लपुराणम्

A medieval Sanskrit manual of wrestling, in which Krishna hands the science to a young scholar. Body types, training, diet, the coach's forty-one arts, and a promise of mokṣa.

18 chapters1964 Baroda editionFree translation
I Episode 1 · Adhyāyas I–II Krishna Gave His Wrestling to a Scholar, Not a King All 78 surviving verses, Sanskrit and English, with every variant and doubt →
How we work

A story you can check.

Our videos are made to be gripping. Our pages are made to be checked. Neither invents anything.

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Every claim has a verse

Each line we narrate points to a verse number, shown on screen and listed here.

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Gaps stay gaps

Where pages are missing, we show the hole. We never fill it with guesses.

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Our words are marked

When we add commentary, we say it's ours. Doubtful readings are flagged as doubtful.

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Honest about tools

Translations are AI-assisted and checked against the printed original. Voices and paintings are AI-made.

On the shelf

Seasons we're preparing.

Each season is one book. These are next in line; we start a season only once its text is in hand.

PlannedA royal cook stirs a great brass vessel over a fire among baskets of spices.

Mānasollāsa

मानसोल्लासः

A king's encyclopedia of royal life, from his kitchen to his pastimes.

PlannedAn archer in a deep stance draws a long bamboo bow toward a bird.

Dhanurveda

धनुर्वेदः

The science of the bow: stances, training and the warrior's craft.

PlannedA gardener pours water at the root of a flowering mango tree in a walled garden.

Vṛkṣāyurveda

वृक्षायुर्वेदः

The āyurveda of trees: how to plant, feed and heal a garden.

Follow the reading as it happens.

New episodes on YouTube, short stories from the verses on Instagram.