List of historic Indian texts

This article attempts to capture in one place the names of books and other works written in ancient India. For the purpose of this list, we consider all books written in the Indian subcontinent up to and including the Mughal era as being 'ancient books'.

Collections
Each collection represents a set of books that are collectively known by the collection's name. In the list of books (shown below the table of collections), each book also refers to the collection it belongs to (if it does).

Key

 * Subject Area - subject area of the book
 * Topic - topic (within the subject area)
 * Collection - belongs to a collection listed in the table above
 * Date - date (year range) book was written/composed
 * Reign of - king/ruler in whose reign this book was written (occasionally a book could span reigns)
 * Reign Age - extent of the reign
 * Geographic Region - as it was known at the time of writing