Financial analysis and evaluation of various resource-technology combinations for rural domestic lighting is undertaken. The options include kerosene lamps, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and biogas lamps, solar photovoltaic lighting systems, and electric lamps. The figures of merit considered for financial comparison are the cost per hour of lighting and the cost per unit of useful energy for lighting. Sensitivity of these figures of merit to the uncertainties in the values of some of the input variables has also been studied.