Languages
Haribol offers Śrīla Prabhupāda’s books in English and 20 other languages. The reading language also sets the language of book and chapter titles and of the app’s interface.
Change the reading language
Section titled “Change the reading language”Select ⋮ › Language, then select a language. On a book’s pages, the list includes only the languages that book is available in.
Available languages
Section titled “Available languages”| Language | Content |
|---|---|
| English | All books. Bhagavad-gītā, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Caitanya-caritāmṛta in both the original and the edited edition. |
| Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian | 22 books each, machine-translated from the original editions. |
| German | Bhagavad-gītā and Kṛṣṇa from the published German editions. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Caitanya-caritāmṛta and The Nectar of Devotion machine-translated. Several further books translated from the edited editions. |
| Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian | The books published in each language, translated from the edited editions. |
The home page lists only the books available in the reading language; switch to English to see the complete library. Letters, talks, AI search and the Data sources page are in English only.
Translation labels
Section titled “Translation labels”A notice at the top of a page identifies text that is not a published translation of the original edition:
| Notice | Shown on |
|---|---|
| Machine translation (AI) — not a published translation of this book. | The Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese and Russian books; the German Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Caitanya-caritāmṛta and The Nectar of Devotion. |
| Edited edition: this text comes from the BBT’s edited edition; no text of the original edition is available for it. | Text translated from the later edited editions, in any language. |
Haribol uses a translation of the original edition wherever one exists and uses the edited edition only to fill gaps. Śrīla Prabhupāda’s own translation of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam ends at Canto 10, Chapter 13; the remainder, in English as well, comes from the edited edition and carries the notice.
Only English offers both editions with the Original, Edited and Compare views. See View options.
Download a language for offline use
Section titled “Download a language for offline use”The Android and Mac apps include the English library. Other languages are read from the server unless downloaded.
- Select ⋮ › Language.
- Select Download for offline use next to the language. The button shows the download size, typically about 100 MB.
When the download completes, the button becomes a check mark (Downloaded — available offline), and the language can be read and searched without a connection. A dot on the check mark means an update is available; select the check mark to Update download or Delete download.
Without a download or a connection, books are shown in English.
The web app downloads languages from the same list, and English is in that list too: there it is the English offline library. Each other language requires that library, which is included in the download size if it is not yet on the device. Deleting English also takes your other downloaded languages back online, so the app asks first. See Read without a connection.
Two languages side by side
Section titled “Two languages side by side”In a wide window, a second language can be shown beside the reading language. See View options.