From ZYSK at EDU.NYU.ACFCLUSTER Tue Apr 16 18:30:25 1991 From: ZYSK at EDU.NYU.ACFCLUSTER (ZYSK at EDU.NYU.ACFCLUSTER) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 91 14:30:25 -0400 Subject: information Message-ID: <161227014983.23782.18206688008576252786.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> To all on the network: In am looking for any information pertaining to the Kamasastra text: Ratisastra by a certain Siddhanagarjuna Text is also known as Adisastra and Siddhavinoda It seems to have been a product of the Saiva tradition. Any data on this treatise would be greatly appreciated. --K.G. Zysk From madhav_deshpande at EDU.UMICH.CC.UM Wed Apr 17 13:30:18 1991 From: madhav_deshpande at EDU.UMICH.CC.UM (madhav_deshpande at EDU.UMICH.CC.UM) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 91 09:30:18 -0400 Subject: information Message-ID: <161227014985.23782.15548657595084663670.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> To Kenneth Zysk, In his History of Sanskrit Literature (p. 470), Keith refers to a Ratisastra ascribed to Nagarjuna. The footnote on that page refers to: Cf. Schmidt, WZKM. xxiii. 180ff. and on the comm., Smaratattva- prakasika of Revanaradhya, WZKM. xviii. 261 ff. From ZYSK at EDU.NYU.ACFCLUSTER Wed Apr 17 14:37:42 1991 From: ZYSK at EDU.NYU.ACFCLUSTER (ZYSK at EDU.NYU.ACFCLUSTER) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 91 10:37:42 -0400 Subject: information Message-ID: <161227014986.23782.14499937415813010684.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Many thanks for the information about Ratisastra. I am aware of both, but the real problem is tracking down a manuscript tradition. An info on that? K.G. Zysk From FALK at DE.UNI-FREIBURG.RUF.IBM Wed Apr 24 10:06:54 1991 From: FALK at DE.UNI-FREIBURG.RUF.IBM (falk) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 91 10:06:54 +0000 Subject: None Message-ID: <161227014988.23782.1802150881941428587.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> I am preparing a bibliography on the Ashokan inscriptions and have collected some 900 articles and books. There are a lot of Indian and other Journals which are not readily accessible at Freiburg. I would be glad if you could slip me a note whenever you find an article or a reference in a book dealing with the inscriptions which seems somewhat hidden. Harry Falk From ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL Thu Apr 25 10:22:56 1991 From: ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 91 11:22:56 +0100 Subject: Nagarjuna Message-ID: <161227014990.23782.11849626498229490331.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Ken, Regarding Naagaarjuna, see Granoff's fascinating article `Jain Biographies of Nagarjuna: Notes on the Composing of a Biography in Medieval India' in _Monks and Magicians: Religious Biographies in Asia_, edited by Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara (New York etc.: Mosaic Press, 1988). (Available from Riverrun Press Inc, 1170 Broadway, Suite 807, New York, NY 10001, distributed by Kampmann & Co., 9 East 40th Street, New York 10016.) See also her bibliography and refs., esp. the books by Walleser and Satchidananda Murty. It seems that Naagaarjuna wears "Saivite, Buddhist and Jain hats, to suit his audience. The Rasendrama"ngala seems to have elements that bind it to the Buddhist milieu ("Srii Paarvata, "Saalivaahana raaja, ref. to Praj~naapaaramitaa), but confusingly it starts with the "sloka natvaa rasendra.m "sivasaukhyadaayakam which looks awfully "saiva, unless `"siva' is taken in a purely adjectival sense, which seems strained to me. [Does anyone on INDOLOGY have a postal address (or even better, email) for Phyllis Granoff? Many thanks.] Best wishes, Dominik From ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL Thu Apr 25 11:48:38 1991 From: ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 91 12:48:38 +0100 Subject: the making of critical editions Message-ID: <161227014993.23782.17069075487947664630.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> I thought fellow INDOLOGISTs might be interested in the appended announcement of a program for making editions, since this must still rank as one of the centrally important tasks of our field. A subsidiary reason for sending this note is sheer lack of modesty. I have been collaborating for some time with John Lavagnino (Brandeis) in writing a program in the TeX macro language for formatting critical editions. As you will see below, the COLLATE program uses our program EDMAC for printing its output. But EDMAC is quite independent of COLLATE, and can be used separately. (In particular, EDMAC is not bound to the Macintosh, but runs on any machine that runs TeX, and in practice that means any machine on the market, with any printer or typesetter.) If you have a critical edition on your agenda I suggest you have a look at the capabilities of EDMAC (and COLLATE, perhaps). EDMAC provides unique facilities for creating up to five layers of footnote material (variants, testimonia, etc.), with each layer's format separately controllable (page-width, two columns, three columns, block paragraph of run-on notes, etc.), up to five sets of end-notes; automatic line numbering; note references to line numbers (not superscript footnote numbers), and much else. For a full description of EDMAC's capabilities, with examples (including a page of Sanskrit in Devanagari) see: John Lavagnino and Dominik Wujastyk, "An Overview of EDMAC: a plain TeX format for critical editions" in TUGboat 11(4), 1990, pp.623--643. The journal _TUGboat: Communications of the TeX Users Group_ is in most University (Computing dept.) libraries. For more information, email the TeX Users Group at TUG at math.ams.com A book documenting EDMAC in full, together with a disk holding the program itself will shortly be published by TUG. Dominik ------- Forwarded Message Date: Wed, 17 Apr 91 22:22:30 EDT From: Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear Subject: 4.1248 Collate -- SW for MSS Collation (1/88) To: Multiple recipients of list HUMANIST Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 1248. Wednesday, 17 Apr 1991. Date: Wed, 17 Apr 91 11:06 GMT From: PETERR at VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK (Peter Robinson) Subject: Collate 1.0 Version 1.0 of Collate -- a new program for the collation of large textual traditions -- is now available. About Collate ----------------- Collate aims to help scholars in the preparation of a critical edition based on many sources. It can collate simultaneously up to a hundred texts at once. It can deal with richly marked-up texts (with special treatment for editorial comments embedded in the text, location markers, editorial expansions and separate collation of punctuation). It provides powerful facilities to allow the scholar to tailor the collation and it can output in many different formats. Collate works interactively with the collation being written to a window as the scholar watches. The scholar may intervene at any point to alter the collation, using either of the tools RSet VariantS or RRegulariseS. RSet VariantS allows the scholar to over-rule the collation offered by Collate and impose his own collation, even writing a variant that does not appear in the sources into the collation. RRegulariseS enables the scholar to intervene to regularise any word or phrase in any source at any point. The regularisation can be set for a particular word at every point in every source, or for that word only at that place in that source, or various other combinations. Collate will record all variants set and every regularisation made and remember them next time it runs. The scholar can adjust the collation in other ways, switching the base text, suppressing agreements with the base text and collating punctuation tokens separately. The collation may be output in various critical apparatus forms (including several formats recommended by the Text Encoding Initiative), or scholars may dictate their own format. Through an interface to the EDMAC macros, developed by John Lavagnino of Brandeis University and Dominik Wujastyk of the Wellcome Institute for the production of complex critical editions with the typesetting language TeX, editions with up to five levels of apparatus can be created direct from the output of Collate. The EDMAC macros and an implementation of TeX (OzTeX) are provided with the program. Automatic generation of hypertext electronic editions from the output is also possible. Texts Collate can Process - ----------------------------- The length of texts Collate can process is limited only by the storage capacity of the computer. The only requirement is that the text be divided into blocks containing no more than 32768 words each. Collate works on both prose and verse and has been tested successfully on texts in many languages (including Malay, Sanskrit, Latin, Middle English and Old Norse). A set of Guidelines for Transcription, provided with the program, explains the format transcription files should have so that they can be processed by Collate. The transcription files must be plain ASCII files and can be prepared on any computer. A simple word-processor, Transcribe, is also provided with Collate: this includes various functions specially designed to help transcription. The History of Collate - -------------------------- Collate has been developed as part of the Computers and Manuscripts Project, funded for three years from 1st September 1989 by the Leverhulme Trust at the Oxford University Computing Service with support from Apple Computer. Collate has been written by the Research Officer for the Project, Peter Robinson (PETERR at AC.UK.OX.VAX). The Project Director is Susan Hockey. Program Availability and Requirements - ---------------------------------------------- Collate 1.0 runs only on Macintosh computers (Classic or higher) and requires one megabyte of memory to operate. A hard disc is recommended. It can be ordered from: The Computers and Manuscripts Project Oxford University Computing Service 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN England. (Phone: 0865 273200; fax 0865 273275; email PETERR at AC.UK.OX.VAX). The program costs #20 pounds UK, 40 dollars US. Cheques should be made payable to the Oxford University Computing Service; cheques in pounds must be drawn on a British bank. Documentation, sample files, Transcribe (version 1.1) and the OzTeX implementation of TeX for the Macintosh, together with the EDMAC macros, are provided with the program. ------- End of Forwarded Message From ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL Sat Apr 27 07:54:27 1991 From: ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Sat, 27 Apr 91 08:54:27 +0100 Subject: Granoff's address received with thanks Message-ID: <161227014995.23782.7811652303204804729.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Many thanks to the INDOLOGISTs who have sent me Phyllis Granoff's email and post address. Dominik