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[विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)]

https://vishvasa.github.io/kalpAntaram/  इत्यत्रेतोऽप्य् अन्ये ग्रन्थास् तत्रत्या रक्षिताः।

स्वाधीत्यै मनुस्मृतेः मूलेन साकं मेधातिथिभाष्यं, तयोर् गङ्गानाथोपाध्यायकृतानुवादं, गङ्गानाथोपाध्यायटिप्पनीः, भारुचीयम्, बुह्लरार्यकृतानुवादं च संयोजितं किञ्चित्। यथाऽत्र - https://vishvasa.github.io/kalpAntaram/smRtiH/manuH/sarva-prastutiH/07/ । युष्माकम् अपि कदाचिद् उपयोगाय स्यात्। मनुः पिता सभृगुकुलः प्रीयताम्।

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From: विश्वासो वासुकेयः <vishvas...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 1:37 PM
Subject: {भारतीयविद्वत्परिषत्} UT Dharmaśāstra Resource Library in devanAgarI , CC license, open access publishing
To: भारतीयविद्वत्परिषत् <bvpar...@googlegroups.com>

It is so wonderful that this scholar has published his effort openly and freely under CC BY-SA license. Another leukospheric scholar, McComas Taylor completed his versified translation of the Viṣṇupurāṇa and published it open access at https://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n8264/pdf/book.pdf ! 

It is something Indian scholars and universities should learn from. I have sought digitized searchable versions of smRti-nibandha-s for my studies and practice (I know they exist in private collections of some Indian scholars) - the best I managed to get was "talk to the hand" or "it will be published one day, be patient" or "use my app" type response. Even where it is published, there is no guarantee that it will stay on the net (like that infamous tirupati corpus from last decade). Some (otherwise venerable) organizations are so stupid as to use outdated fonts and computer setups just to thwart data copying! No idea what is accomplished by such poverty/ scarcity mindset - but this is clearly inferior to the open access approach. Barring exceptions it is striking that western scholars contribute such text editions far in excess of their numbers.


For my studies (and potentially others), I've saved devanAgarI versions at https://vishvasa.github.io/kalpAntaram/smRti-chandrikA/ , https://vishvasa.github.io/kalpAntaram/smRtiH/yAjJNavalkyaH/ and https://vishvasa.github.io/kalpAntaram/smRtiH/manuH/medhAtithiH/ . You can get the content in various other scripts and get to/ edit the source using the buttons shown in the pic https://i.imgur.com/ar0lQdv.png . Feel free to use, correct and copy.

On Saturday, June 19, 2021 at 2:26:06 PM UTC+5:30 Nagaraj Paturi wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to inform you about a new repository of searchable electronic texts of Dharmaśāstra commentaries and digests, hosted at the University of Texas. During the pandemic, Patrick Olivelle has been hard at work transcribing several important texts (thousands of pages!), often comparing editions and providing text-critical notes. Although we intend to make these open texts (CC BY-SA) available later through a central repository such as GRETIL or SARIT, the proofreading process for texts of this size is time-consuming. Rather than wait, however, we wanted to share the initial transcriptions of six texts, portions of which have been checked. They are offered to the Indological community as Google docs which can be downloaded in various formats. That format may be slower to load, but it makes corrections by a group easy. In most cases, we have also been able to provide links to PDFs of standard editions of the same texts for easy cross-referencing. In any case, we hope the availability of these e-texts will facilitate future research on Dharmaśāstra.

Please join me in a public expression of thanks to Patrick for his typically tireless scholarly efforts to make these texts available. All inquiries, suggestions, etc. should be sent to me, but users are warned that the texts are offered as-is and that we are making continuous updates to the files.

http://sites.utexas.edu/sanskrit/resources/dharmasastra/

Best, 

Don Davis

Professor & Chair

Department of Asian Studies

University of Texas at Austin

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