- Norse SagasDownload .hermes · 32 books · 7.0 MB
The Icelandic and Norwegian saga corpus — family sagas, kings’ sagas, legendary sagas, and bishops’ sagas in classic English translations (Morris–Magnússon, Dasent, Laing, and others).
- Laozi — Tao Te ChingDownload .hermes · 5 books · 760 KB
The Tao Te Ching itself in five renderings — Chalmers (1868), Balfour, Legge — with the original Chinese text and a dual-text edition.
- Sun Tzu — The Art of WarDownload .hermes · 5 books · 1.1 MB
Sun Tzu's Art of War — the Calthrop and Lionel Giles translations, a plain-text Giles, the traditional Chinese text, and a dual-text edition.
- The RigvedaDownload .hermes · 3 books · 12.0 MB
The complete Rigveda in Ralph T. H. Griffith's translation — over a thousand hymns to Agni, Indra, Soma, and the dawn, the oldest scripture of India.
- The SamavedaDownload .hermes · 1 book · 318 KB
The Samaveda — the Veda of chants — in Griffith's translation: the verses of the Rigveda arranged for the singing priests at the Soma sacrifice.
- The YajurvedaDownload .hermes · 2 books · 1.5 MB
The Black and White Yajurveda — the Veda of sacrificial formulas — in the classic translations of Keith and Griffith.
- The UpanishadsDownload .hermes · 3 books · 2.6 MB
The principal Upanishads themselves — Müller's Sacred Books of the East translation, Paramananda's 1919 rendering, and the Sanskrit texts.
- The Pali CanonDownload .hermes · 10 books · 7.0 MB
The Pali Canon in the Sacred Books of the East translations — Dhammapada, Sutta-Nipâta, Vinaya, Dîgha Nikâya, the Questions of King Milinda, and more.
- AsvaghosaDownload .hermes · 2 books · 732 KB
Asvaghosa's Buddhacharita — the life of the Buddha in Sanskrit court verse — with the Saundarananda, in classic English renderings.
- The Later Sanskrit EpicsDownload .hermes · 3 books · 340 KB
The later Sanskrit court epics — Bharavi's Kirâtârjunîya, Magha's Shishupâla-vadha, and Bhatti's poem — in nineteenth-century English translations.
- Kabir — Collected WorksDownload .hermes · 3 books · 913 KB
The poems of Kabir — the Bijak in Ahmad Shah's translation, and the songs translated by Rabindranath Tagore, with the Hindi text.
- The Book of SindibadDownload .hermes · 3 books · 1.0 MB
The Book of Sindibad — the Persian and Arabic versions of the story-cycle of the Seven Sages, with the original Persian text.
Book packs install into the app builds (Android, Windows, Linux, iOS): download a pack, open Plato Scroll, tap the ＋ Install books button in the library toolbar, and pick the file. The Eastern packs shelve themselves under their own sections — The East: China, India, and Persia.