Useful websites are numerous, and we try to keep up with updating the list. Do let us know of websites that we may have missed. Please note that the numbers do not correspond to ranks, as all these websites are equally useful, although in different ways.
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Books/e-books/e-texts
- www.acharya.org : among other things, this website hosts hundreds of scans of Śrīvaiṣṇava works. Extremely useful.
- pillai.koyil.org : you will find typed-out (in iTRANS) commentaries on the Tiruvāymoḻi, besides offering courses on various Śrīvaiṣṇava works, and videos of the completed ones can be accessed from here, and they include vyākhyānas, rahasyagranthas, and so forth.
- www.dravidaveda.org: this is a database that has the while Divya Prabandham typed-out, along with PB Annangaracharya’s (PBA) commentaries. The website is a little unstable, and also contains many typos and broken links, but is still very useful for a quick check.
- www.sadagopan.org: this database contains hundreds of ebooks of Śrīvaiṣṇava works with translations and/or explanations.
- thiruvonum.wordpress.com: This blog contains typed-out texts of many vyākhyānas, rahasyagranthas, and so forth, but often, along with the transcription of the oral explanations by Śrīvaiṣṇava teachers such as Velukkudi Krishnan and M.A. Venkatakrishnan. Typos abound, but still very useful.
- srivaishnavan.com: This is the website of the Jananyacharya Indological Research Foundation, which contains a few typed-out texts in Manipravala, but also a few English renderings, some of which is free, and some for a small fee. But their PDFs are not dwnloadable.
- srivaishnavagranthams.wordpress.com: this blog, linked to koyil.org mentioned above, contains information on Śrīvaiṣṇava literature, and hosts a few ebooks (/ebooks) in various scripts as well.
- guruparamparaitamil.wordpress.com/: This website contains hagiographic information on the Śrīvaiṣṇava Ācāryas, including the works that they have composed + a few taṉiyaṉ and maṅgala verses.
- http://www.srikainkaryasri.com contains explanations on Vedānta Deśika’s Rahasyatrasāram.
- http://vishnudut1926.blogspot.com: this website has many ebooks from various (Hindu) religious fields.
Videos
The following YouTube channels contain discourses, lectures, and talks on various Śrīvaiṣṇava topics, including Manipravala works.
- Velukkudi discourses: This channel contains talks on various topics, including Manipravala, often in a modern version of Manipravala.
- APN Swami’s channel: very similar to the above channel
- Dushyanth Sridhar’s channel: similar to the above channels
- Vaishnavism Department Alumni Association: This channel contains various talks given on various Śrīvaiṣṇavism-related topics.
Learning
- Yathiraja Medha Multiversity: This website provides free and paid courses on various Śrīvaiṣṇava, some of which include Manipravala works.
- Sampradaya manjari: this website fits many categories, as it offers classes to learn more on the Śrīvaiṣṇava sampradāya, but also Sanskrit and Tamil, etc. It also will soon contains e-books.
- velukkudi.tv: This website provides e-learning on various Śrīvaiṣṇava topics, including on works in Manipravala, and usually the teaching is done in a modern form of Manipravala by Velukkudi Krishnan and his son Velukkudi Ranganathan.
- Velukkudi discourses: This website allows you to buy traditional discourses (upanyāsam) and traditional lectures (kālakṣepam) of Śrīvaiṣṇava works, most of which are in Manipravala. Most teaching is done in a modern form of Manipravala (and sme in English) by Velukkudi Krishnan and his son Velukkudi Ranganathan.
More general websites
- The Madras Tamil Lexicon (MTL) contains an impressive number of Śrīvaiṣṇava Tamil words, hence the go-to website while reading a Manipravala text. You can use the Lexicon online here.
- Along with the MTL, a few other dictionaries can be searched in one place on this website.
- Knowing the meaning of Sanskrit words is just as important for understanding Manipravala texts, and this website contains in one place the dcitionaries of Monier-Williams, Apte, and so forth (which can also be consulted in other websites such as this website hosted by the Koeln University).
- Tamil Digital Library: This one contains scans of various books and manuscripts, including Manipravala ones.
- The same goes for the well-known archive.org.
- Project Madurai contains Tamil electronic texts, which includes the Nālāyira Divya Prabandham and Deśikaprabandham, very useful to have for those who work on the commentaries of these works.
- Aksharamukha: This converter allows one to switch from one script to another seamlessly.