Thousands of authors have written books on the life, principles, works and influence of Maharshi Dayanand. He has been mentioned incidentally in thousands of other books. These books tell the views of these writers towards Maharshi Dayanand. Some works of Arya Samaji and other writers have been listed here.These available books can be downloaded from Arya Samaj’s online library
| S. No. | Language | Category | Book Title | Author | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | autobiography | Autobiography of Pandit Dayanand Saraswati for the Theosophist | Madame Blavatsky | “On the request of Colonel Alcott, Swamiji wrote his autobiography in Hindi to be published in “”Theosophist””. Its English translation, edited by Madame Blavatsky, was published in the English magazine “”Theosophist””. 1952″ |
| 2 | Urdu | autobiography | maharshi swami dayanand saraswati maharaj ka svajivan charitra | Dalpatrai | i.e. Khudnvisht Savanah Umri |
| 3 | Hindi | Biography | maharshi dayanand (kavita) | Akhilesh Sharma | Delhi Sahitya Mandal |
| 4 | Hindi | Biography | dayanand | Aurobindo Ghosh | Pondicherry |
| 5 | Hindi | Biography | adarshbrahmachari | Atmanand Swami | |
| 6 | Hindi | Biography | pyara rishi | Anand Swami | |
| 7 | Hindi | Biography | rishi dayanand janm sthan nirnay | Arya Samaj Bombay | |
| 8 | Hindi | Biography | ajmer aur rishi dayanand | Rishi Mela Committee Ajmer | |
| 9 | Hindi | Biography | maharshi dayanand | Indra | |
| 10 | Hindi | Biography | jivan charit | Prof. Kishori Lal | Aligarh resident |
| 11 | Hindi | Biography | shri swami dayanand saraswati ji ka jivan charitra (kavita) | Krishna (Swami Dhiranand) | |
| 12 | Hindi | Biography | arya missionary | Krishna Sharma | Tankara |
| 13 | Hindi | Biography | swami dayanand | Kedarnath Gupta | Prayag, student welfare book series |
| 14 | Hindi | Biography | jivanacharit | Keshoram Vishnuram Pandya | Handwritten in the library of Arya Samaj Lucknow |
| 15 | Hindi | Biography | hamare swami | Gangaprasad Upadhyay | Prayag, Tract Department, Arya Samaj Chowk |
| 16 | Hindi | Biography | shriyut swami dayanand saraswatiji maharaj ki kuch dincharya | Ganesh Prasad | |
| 17 | Hindi | Biography | dayanand digvijayark | Gopalrao Hari (Farrukhabad) | Agra, Bhargava Press, 1881 v. |
| 18 | Hindi | Biography | shrimaddayanand chitravali | Govindram Aryasevak | Calcutta, Govindram Hassanand |
| 19 | Hindi | Biography | gopal dayanand (tract) | Govindaram | |
| 20 | Hindi | Biography | dayanand ki mahanata (tract) | Govindram Hasanand | |
| 21 | Hindi | Biography | hamare swami | Chamupati | Lahore, Rajpal and Sons |
| 22 | Hindi | Biography | rishi ka chamatkar | Chamupati | |
| 23 | Hindi | Biography | jivanacharit | Munshi Chimmanlal | Tilhar, Shahjahanpur |
| 24 | Hindi | Biography | swami dayanand saraswati | Jankisharan Verma | |
| 25 | Hindi | Biography | dev dayanand darshan | Dr. Gyanchandra Arya Sevak | Children’s Mala – 14 |
| 26 | Hindi | Biography | rishi dayanand | Trilokchand | Arya Charitra Mala, No. 2 |
| 27 | Hindi | Biography | dayanand gungaan | ||
| 28 | Hindi | Biography | dayanand jivan | Colorful for Children | |
| 29 | Hindi | Biography | jivanacharit | Dayaram Tehsildar | |
| 30 | Hindi | Biography | maharshi dayanand saraswati ka jivan ghatna parichay | Prof. Dayashankar Pathak | Jaipur |
| 31 | Hindi | Biography | dayanand ka uddeshya | Darshananand Swami | tract |
| 32 | Hindi | Biography | dayanand ka lakshya | Darshananand Swami | tract |
| 33 | Hindi | Biography | maharshi darshan | Diwan Chand | |
| 34 | Hindi | Biography | jivanacharit | Durgadas | resident of lahore |
| 35 | Hindi | Biography | adarsh sudharak dayanand | Devendranath Mukhopadhyay | Translated from Bengali to Hindi by Swami Anubhavananda |
| 36 | Hindi | Biography | dayanand charitra | Devendranath Mukhopadhyay | Translated from Bengali to Hindi by Pt. Ghasiram |
| 37 | Hindi | Biography | dayanand kaun | Devendranath Mukhopadhyay | tract |
| 38 | Hindi | Biography | maharshi dayanand saraswati ka jivan charit bhag – 2 | Devendranath Mukhopadhyay | Translated from Bengali to Hindi by Pt. Ghasiram, Shrimaddayanand Nirvana half-centenary edition, Ajmer, Arya Sahit Mandal, 1990. |
| 39 | Hindi | Biography | swami dayanand | Nandkumardev Sharma | Omkar Adarsh Charit Mala No. 2 |
| 40 | Hindi | Biography | divya dayanand | Narayan Goswami | |
| 41 | Hindi | Biography | dev dayanand | Miss Pushpa Singhal | Bharatvarshiya Arya-Kumar Parishad |
| 42 | Hindi | Biography | amrit vani | Baburam Gupta | Ludhiana |
| 43 | Hindi | Biography | dayanand digdarshan | Brahmamuni | |
| 44 | Hindi | Biography | bharat ka ek rishi | tract | |
| 45 | Hindi | Biography | dayanand kaal me rail marg | Maulvi Maheshprasad | Kashi |
| 46 | Hindi | Biography | maharshi ka apoorv bhraman | Maulvi Maheshprasad | Kashi |
| 47 | Hindi | Biography | maharshi dayanand | Maulvi Maheshprasad | |
| 48 | Hindi | Biography | maharshi dayanand kab aur kahan | Maulvi Maheshprasad | |
| 49 | Hindi | Biography | sangit dayanand | Yashwant Singh Tohanki | |
| 50 | Hindi | Biography | maharshi dayanand ka bharatrvansh aur svasrvansh | Yudhishthir Mimamsak | |
| 51 | Hindi | Biography | rishi dayanand saraswati ke sthanantar me agaman pratigaman ki tithi aur tarikh | Yudhishthir Mimamsak | In the appendix to Rishi Dayanand’s letters and advertisements edition 2 |
| 52 | Hindi | Biography | maharshi dayanand ke jagmagate heere | Yogendra Pal | |
| 53 | Hindi | Biography | rishi dayanand ke punya sansmaran | Rajendra | Atrauli |
| 54 | Hindi | Biography | maharshi charitra | Radheshyam | Bareilly |
| 55 | Hindi | Biography | dayanand chitravali | Ramgopal | |
| 56 | Hindi | Biography | aryadharmendrajivan | Ram Vilas Sharda | Featured Author – Atmaram Amritsari |
| 57 | Hindi | Biography | shri swami dayanand saraswati | Ramswaroop Vidyabhushan | |
| 58 | Hindi | Biography | bharat ka ek rishi | Romain Rolland | Translator – Raghunath Prasad Pathak |
| 59 | Hindi | Biography | rishi jivan katha | Lakshman Aryopadeshak | |
| 60 | Hindi | Biography | maharshi swami dayanand saraswati | Labbhuram Nayyad | |
| 61 | Hindi | Biography | swami dayanand ka jivan charit | Lajpatrai | Translation of Urdu into Hindi, which was published from Lahore under Vritant Series No. 4. |
| 62 | Hindi | Biography | rishiraj chalisa | Loknath | |
| 63 | Hindi | Biography | maharshi mahima | Loknath | |
| 64 | Hindi | Biography | dayanand charitamrit | Vidyananda | |
| 65 | Hindi | Biography | rishi gatha mahakavy | Vimalchandra Sharma Vimlesh | |
| 66 | Hindi | Biography | uttarakhand ke van parvaton me rishi dayanand | Vishvambharsahay Premi | Delhi, Universal Assembly, 1959 |
| 67 | Hindi | Biography | rishi bodh katha | Vedanand Swami | |
| 68 | Hindi | Biography | swami dayanand ki nirali baaten | Vedanand Swami | Delhi. Dayanand Veda Prachar Mandal, 2009, V. |
| 69 | Hindi | Biography | swami dayanand ji ki vichitra baaten | Vedanand Swami | Jalandhar, Arya Pratinidhi Sabha Punjab |
| 70 | Hindi | Biography | tatvavetta dayanand | Shraddhanand Swami | Delhi, Govindaram Hasanand |
| 71 | Hindi | Biography | dayanand | Santram | |
| 72 | Hindi | Biography | dayanand darshan | Satyadev Vidyalankar | |
| 73 | Hindi | Biography | jivanacharit | Santyavrat Sharma | Etawah |
| 74 | Hindi | Biography | shrimaddayanand prakash (asli chitrasahit) | Satyanand Swami | Seventh edition Delhi, Govindram Hassanand, 1950 |
| 75 | Hindi | Biography | maharshi dayanand jivan | Satyanand Swami | Delhi with pictures of Rishi and devotees |
| 76 | Hindi | Biography | bal dayanand charit | Prof. Sudhakar | Delhi, Sharda Temple |
| 77 | Hindi | Biography | dayanand charit gaan | Sushila Puri | Ambala Cantt, 1946 Tune Radheshyam Ramayan |
| 78 | Hindi | Biography | dayanand digvijay | Harishankar Sharma Kaviratna | |
| 79 | Hindi | Biography | dayanand | Harish Chandra | |
| 80 | English | Biography | Luther of India | Gokulchand Narang | With real pictures of Rishi |
| 81 | English | Biography | Glimpses of Dayanand | Chamupati | Delhi, Sharda Temple, 1937 |
| 82 | English | Biography | Life of Swami Dayanand | Prof. Tarachand Gajra | 1914 |
| 83 | English | Biography | Swami Dayanand Saraswati | Diwan Chand Sharma | |
| 84 | English | Biography | Maharshi Swami Dayanand Saraswati | Durga Prasad | |
| 85 | English | Biography | Swami Dayanand | Natson & Company, Madras, Eminent man of India series | |
| 86 | English | Biography | Swami Dayanand | T.L. Vaswani | Pune, Sita Publishing House |
| 87 | English | Biography | Torch bearer | T.L. Vaswani | |
| 88 | English | Biography | Swami Dayanand | B. M.Sharma | Lucknow |
| 89 | English | Biography | Life of Dayanand | Harbilas Sarda | Ajmer, Vedic Yantralay, 1946 |
| 90 | Sanskrit | Biography | dayanand-digvijay | Akhilanand Sharma | with hindi translation |
| 91 | Sanskrit | Biography | shri dayanand lahari | Akhilanand Sharma | |
| 92 | Sanskrit | Biography | municharitamrit | Dilipdutt Upadhyay | |
| 93 | Sanskrit | Biography | dayanand-digvijay | Medhavrat Kaviratna | with hindi translation |
| 94 | Sanskrit | Biography | maharshi dayanand-charitamrit | Vallabhdas Khatri Ganatra | prose-poetry |
| 95 | Sanskrit | Biography | maharshicharit | Satyavrat Vedavisharad | unpublished |
| 96 | Urdu | Biography | jivanacharit | Amichand Mehta | |
| 97 | Persian | Biography | svanah umari araf dayanand saraswati | Kalicharan | |
| 98 | Urdu | Biography | tatvavetta rishi ki katha | Kriparam Sharma (Swami Darshanananda) | |
| 99 | Urdu | Biography | dayanand anand sagar | Chamupati | verse |
| 100 | Urdu | Biography | maharshi darshan | Tilok Chand Mahroom | verse |
| 101 | Urdu | Biography | dayanand chitravali maya mukammal jivan charit | Mahananda | |
| 102 | Urdu | Biography | maharshi swami dayanand aur unki taalim | Radhakrishna Mahata | |
| 103 | Urdu | Biography | bachchon ke liye maharshi dayanand saraswati | Ramswaroop Kaushal | |
| 104 | Urdu | Biography | nishkalank dayanand | Laxman | |
| 105 | Urdu | Biography | maharshi dayanand saraswati aur unka kaam | Lajpatrai | |
| 106 | Urdu | Biography | maharshi swami dayanand saraswati ji maharaj ka jivan charitra | lekhram | Lahore Arya Pratinidhi Sabha, 1897 |
| 107 | Gujarati | Biography | jhandadhari | Jhevarchand Ji Meghani, Shri Kothari Kakal Bhai | |
| 108 | Gujarati | Biography | swami dayanand na janm sthan aadi | Nanalal Dalpatrai | |
| 109 | Gujarati | Biography | swami dayanand nu jivan charit | Balabhai Jamnadas | Ahmedabad |
| 110 | Gujarati | Biography | maharshi no jivan parichay | Bhadrasen Acharya | Translator – Jagjivan Harishankar Thakur |
| 111 | Gujarati | Biography | swami dayanand nu charitr | Ratansingh Deepsingh Parmar | |
| 112 | Gujarati | Biography | krantikari dayanand | Satyavrat Vedavisharad | |
| 113 | Marathi | Biography | maharshi dayanand va tyanchi kaamgiri | Hari Sakharam Nungar | |
| 114 | Bangla | Biography | dayanand charitra | Devendranath Mukhopadhyay | |
| 115 | Hindi | Correspondence | rishi dayanand ke patr aur vigyapan | Bhagavadatta | Amritsar, Ramlal Kapoor Trust |
| 116 | Hindi | Correspondence | swami dayanand ka patra vyavahar pratham bhag | Munshiram Jigyasu (Swami Shraddhananda) | Gurukul Kangri, Saddharma Pracharak Yantralay |
| 117 | Hindi | Correspondence | swami dayanand ka patra vyavahar dvitiya bhag | Chamupati | Dean Gurukul Kangri, Gurukul Yantralay |
| 118 | Hindi | Correspondence | rishi dayanand ke patr aur vigyapanon ke parishisht | Yudhishthir Mimamsak | Amritsar, Ramlal Kapoor Trust |
| 119 | Hindi | Correspondence | dayanand lekhavali bhag 1 | Ramal | Swami Dayanand’s Sanskrit letters with translation |
| 120 | Hindi | comparative study | bhagawan shankar aur dayanand | Anand Swami | |
| 121 | Hindi | comparative study | rammohan, keshavachandrasen, dayanand | Gangaprasad Upadhyay | Prayag, Kala Press |
| 122 | Hindi | comparative study | shankar, ramanuj, dayanand | Gangaprasad Upadhyay | Prayag, Kala Press |
| 123 | Hindi | comparative study | maharshi dayanand aur mahatma gandhi | Dharmadev Vidyavachaspati | |
| 124 | Hindi | comparative study | maharshi dayanand aur raja ram mohan roy | Bhavanilal Bhartiya | Agra Arya Prakash Library |
| 125 | Hindi | comparative study | maharshi dayanand aur anya bharatiya dharmacharya | Bhavanilal Bhartiya | Jodhpur, Aryasamaj Nagar |
| 126 | English | comparative study | Bankim, Tilak and Dayanand | Aurobindo Ghosh | Pondicherry, Arvind Ashram |
| 127 | English | comparative study | Social reconstruction by Buddha and Dayanand | Gangaprasad Upadhyay | Prayag, Kala Press, 1956 |
| 128 | English | comparative study | Plato, Aristotle and Dayanand | Prof. D. Tikamdas Gajra | |
| 129 | English | comparative study | Shankar and Dayanand | Harbilas Sarda | |
| 130 | Hindi | doctrine and action | ishwaropasak dayanand | Usharbudh | tract |
| 131 | Hindi | doctrine and action | swami dayanand aur ved | tract | |
| 132 | Hindi | doctrine and action | maharshi ke mishan ko bachao | tract | |
| 133 | Hindi | doctrine and action | maharshi dayanand aur unka karya | tract | |
| 134 | Hindi | doctrine and action | dayanand siddhant bhaskar | Krishnachandra Virmani | |
| 135 | Hindi | doctrine and action | jagadguru dayanand ka sansar par jadoo | Jaimini Mehta | |
| 136 | Hindi | doctrine and action | prabhu bhakt dayanand tatha unke adhyatmik updesh | Bhadrasen | |
| 137 | Hindi | doctrine and action | rishi dayanand ka rashtravad | Bhavanilal Bhartiya | Jaipur, Arya Sahitya Prakashan |
| 138 | Hindi | doctrine and action | maharshi dayanand ke siddhant | Ravi Verma | tract |
| 139 | Hindi | doctrine and action | swami dayanand saraswati aur unka kaam | Ram Chandra | Ambala city, 1952 |
| 140 | Hindi | doctrine and action | maharshi dayanand ji ki drishti me yajya | Shivpujan Kushwaha | tract |
| 141 | Hindi | doctrine and action | maharshi dayanand tatha arya samaj ko samajhne me pauranikon ka bhram | Shivpujan Kushwaha | tract |
| 142 | Hindi | doctrine and action | rashtrawadi dayanand | Satyadev Vidyalankar | |
| 143 | English | doctrine and action | Dayanand, the man and his work | Aurobindo Ghosh | |
| 144 | English | doctrine and action | Swami Dayanand and his activities | Arya Samaj Malawar | |
| 145 | English | doctrine and action | Land marks of Swami Dayanand’s teachings | Gangaprasad Upadhyay | Prayag Kala Press, 1174 |
| 146 | English | doctrine and action | Swami Dayanand on the formation and function of state | Gangaprasad Upadhyay | Prayag, Arya Samaj Chowk, |
| 147 | English | doctrine and action | Philosophy of Dayanand | Gangaprasad Upadhyay | Prayag Kala Press 1638 |
| 148 | English | doctrine and action | Swami Dayanand’s Contribution to Hindu solidarity | Gangaprasad Upadhyay | Prayag, Arya Samaj Chowk, 1939 |
| 149 | English | doctrine and action | Ten Commandments of Dayanand | Chamupati | Lahore, Rajpal |
| 150 | English | doctrine and action | Life and teachings of Swami Dayanand Saraswati | Chhajjusingh | |
| 151 | English | doctrine and action | An interpretative Dayanand | Prof. D. Tikamdas Gajra | |
| 152 | English | doctrine and action | Advent of RishiDayanand | Prof. Tarachand Gajra | 1911 |
| 153 | English | doctrine and action | Swami Dayanand on Bhakti | Prof. Tarachand Gajra | 1912 |
| 154 | English | doctrine and action | Tributes to Rishi Dayanand and Satyarth Prakash | Dharmadev Vidyavachaspati | |
| 155 | English | doctrine and action | General survey of the life and teachings of Swami Dayanand | Nand Kishore | |
| 156 | English | doctrine and action | Interpretation of Dayanand | T.L. Vaswani | |
| 157 | English | doctrine and action | Life and teachings of Swami Dayanand | Vishwaprakash | Prayag Kala Press, 1935 |
| 158 | English | doctrine and action | Swami Dayanand Saraswati, his life and teachings | Shivanandan Prasad Kulyar | |
| 159 | English | doctrine and action | Critical study of the philosophy of Dayanand | Satya Prakash | |
| 160 | English | doctrine and action | Dayanand, his life and work | Suryabhan | Jalandhar, Arya Pradeshiya Sabha, 1956 |
| 161 | English | doctrine and action | Dayanand Commemoration Volume | Harbilas Sarda | Ajmer, Vedic Yantralay, 1933 |
| 162 | Bangla | doctrine and action | adarsh sudharak dayanand | Devendranath Mukhopadhyay | |
| 163 | Hindi | contextual mention | bharatiya sanskriti ka vikas : vaidik dhara | Mangaldev Shastri | Banaras, Council of Social Sciences, 1956 on page 317 |
| 164 | Hindi | contextual mention | vaidik sahitya | Ramgovind Tripathi | Kashi, Bharatiya Jnanpith, 1950, pages 368 – 400 as Rigveda commentator, page 403 as Yajurveda commentator. |
| 165 | Hindi | contextual mention | sanskriti ke chaar adhyay | Ramdhari Singh Dinkar | Delhi, Rajkamal, 1956 Hints at 27 places |
| 166 | Hindi | contextual mention | dhyanayogaprakash | Yogi Laxmanananda | |
| 167 | English | contextual mention | Indian Renaissance | C.F.Andrews | |
| 168 | English | contextual mention | Builders of New India | Annie Besant | 1942 |
| 169 | English | contextual mention | From the caves and jungles of India | Madame Blavatsky | |
| 170 | English | contextual mention | Indian Social reform | V.Y Chintamani | 1901 |
| 171 | English | contextual mention | New India | Henry Cotton | |
| 172 | English | contextual mention | Social back ground of Indian nationalism | A.R. Desai | Bombay, Popular Book Depot,1954. |
| 173 | English | contextual mention | Modern religious movements in India | J. N. Farquhar | New York, Macmillan, 1915 |
| 174 | English | contextual mention | Encyclopedia of religious | Hastings | |
| 175 | English | contextual mention | History of nationalism in East | Kohn Hans | 1929 |
| 176 | English | contextual mention | Brahmo Samaj and the Arya Samaj | F. Lillington | |
| 177 | English | contextual mention | Awakening of India | J. Ramsey MacDonald | |
| 178 | English | contextual mention | History of political thought from Raja Ram Mohan Roy to Dayanand | B.Majumdar | 1934 |
| 179 | English | contextual mention | Raja Ram Mohan Roy and progressive monuments in India | B.Majumdar | 1941 |
| 180 | English | contextual mention | Real Hinduism | Gokul Chand Narang | Lahore, New Book Society, 1947 |
| 181 | English | contextual mention | New spirit in India | H W Navinson | |
| 182 | English | contextual mention | Saints and sages of India | Pritam Singh | New Delhi, New Book Society of India, 1948 |
| 183 | English | contextual mention | Contemporary Indian philosophers | Benoy Gopal Ray | Allahabad, Kitabistan, 1947 |
| 184 | English | contextual mention | Peoples of India | Herbert Risley | |
| 185 | English | contextual mention | Prophets of the New India | Romin Rolland | 1930 |
| 186 | English | contextual mention | Hinduism through the ages | D. S. Sarma | Bombay, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1956 |
| 187 | English | contextual mention | Sciences of India | J. A. Spender | |
| 188 | English | contextual mention | Social renaissance in India | K. C. Vyas | Bombay, Vora & Co. 1957 |
| 189 | English | contextual mention | Renascent India | H.C.E.Zacharians | 1933 |
This list is incomplete. If anyone has information about books other than these, please send it to thearyasamaj@gmail.com