Wikisource Marathi

MH Specific

Public domain Marathi literature including 1,000+ books from Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha, classical texts (Dnyaneshwari, Dasbodh, Haripath), and historical documents

Build a Marathi literary text analyzer that studies writing styles and linguistic features across historical Marathi literature.

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Quick Start

# Marathi Wikisource: https://mr.wikisource.org/
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
url = 'https://mr.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:AllPages'
print(f"Browse Marathi Wikisource at: {url}")
# Use wikimedia API: https://mr.wikisource.org/w/api.php

Modality

Text (Marathi)

Size

1,000+ books, growing

License

CC BY-SA 4.0

Format

CSV/JSON

Language

Update Frequency

static

Organization

Wikimedia Foundation

Schema

Field	Type	Description
text	string	Marathi literary text from Wikisource
title	string	Title of the work
author	string	Author name

Build With This

Create a Marathi classic literature search engine with full-text search and semantic retrieval across Wikisource texts

Develop an old Marathi to modern Marathi text modernizer for making historical literature accessible to contemporary readers

Build a Marathi authorship attribution model trained on Wikisource texts to identify writing styles of different authors

AI Use Cases

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Last verified: 2026-03-07