From ZYSK at EDU.NYU.ACFCLUSTER Tue Sep 3 15:56:00 1991 From: ZYSK at EDU.NYU.ACFCLUSTER (ZYSK at EDU.NYU.ACFCLUSTER) Date: Tue, 03 Sep 91 10:56:00 -0500 Subject: Indian library addresses Message-ID: <161227015110.23782.10595340092206901998.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Some progress is being made in locating MSS of the Ratisastra a.k.a. Ratiramana,Siddhavinodana. A valuable contact located an incomplete MS at BHU. I should greatly appreciate it if members of this network could provide me with valuable contacts at the following libraries in India: Pune, Madras, Baroda, Thanjavur. I shall write the individual(s) requesting information about MSS of Ratisastra and would appreciate using your names as an introduction. Many thanks. Yours, Ken Zysk P.S. Contacts at others Indian libraries not mentioned above would also be most appreciated. KZ From madhav.deshpande at EDU.UMICH.CC.UM Tue Sep 3 18:47:38 1991 From: madhav.deshpande at EDU.UMICH.CC.UM (madhav.deshpande at EDU.UMICH.CC.UM) Date: Tue, 03 Sep 91 14:47:38 -0400 Subject: Indian library addresses Message-ID: <161227015111.23782.9573057043639970085.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Ken, If you need, you could use my name as introduction to write to folks at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute at Pune and Adyar ResearchLibrary and Centre, Madras. Write to Professor R.N. Dandekar at BORI, Pune, 411004, India, and to Kunjunni Raja at Adyar, Madras. With all the best, Madhav From ridgeway at EDU.WASHINGTON.HACC.BLACKBOX Wed Sep 4 16:50:57 1991 From: ridgeway at EDU.WASHINGTON.HACC.BLACKBOX (Thomas B. Ridgeway) Date: Wed, 04 Sep 91 09:50:57 -0700 Subject: F. Velthuis's nagari font now freely available Message-ID: <161227015113.23782.2989019787224423097.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> A (series of) forwarded messages follows, some members of list Indology will be very interested in this: our thanks to Frans Velthuis. Incidentally, despite the notice of june.cs.washington.edu directory ~ftp/edu below, I actually found the files devnag.zip and devnag.tar.Z in ~/tex on june. cheers --- Tom Forwarded message: > From mackay at cs.washington.edu Tue Sep 3 16:39:36 1991 > Date: Tue, 3 Sep 91 16:46:59 -0700 > From: mackay at cs.washington.edu > Message-Id: <9109032346.AA00421 at manta.cs.washington.edu> > To: texhax at cs.washington.edu, INFO-TeX at shsu.edu, > Ridgeway at blackbox.hacc.washington.edu > > elisabet at max.u.washington.edu > Subject: Devanagari fonts > > The enclosed message speaks for itself. The two files mentioned > are on june.cs.washington.edu, in the directory ~ftp/edu > I trust a LISTSERV site can be found for them also. Our > sincerest thanks to Frans Velthuis. > > Date: Mon, 26 Aug 91 16:00:35 METDST > From: velthuis at RUGRCX.RUG.NL (Frans J. Velthuis) > Subject: Devanagari fonts > > Dear Mr. Mackay, > > I developed a Devanagari font and software for use with TeX some time ago. > Thanks to a grant from my University it is public domain software now. > You can get the software with Anonymous FTP from rugrcx.rug.nl (129.125.4.12) > It is in the directory 'pub'. There is a devnag.zip for MSDOS and a devnag.tar.Z > for UNIX and other operating systems. I would appreciate it if you can put the > software on the University of Washington fileserver. I have no objections if > you want to add the software to the 'babel'-collection. > > Yours sincerely, > Frans Velthuis > > > > -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Thomas Ridgeway, Director, Humanities and Arts Computing Center/NorthWest Computing Support Center 35 Thomson Hall, University of Washington, DR-10 Seattle, WA 98195 phone: (206)-543-4218 * Ask me about * Internet: ridgeway at blackbox.hacc.washington.edu * Unix TeX * - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From TCOB at EARN.SLUMUS Thu Sep 5 20:24:49 1991 From: TCOB at EARN.SLUMUS (TCOB000) Date: Thu, 05 Sep 91 16:24:49 -0400 Subject: Indian library addresses Message-ID: <161227015115.23782.4441438732163504166.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Regarding contacts in Baroda, you may write Dr. R. T. Vyas, Director of the Oriental Institute, M.S. University of Baroda, Lokamanya Tilak Road, Vadodara 390 002, mentioning that you are writing at my suggestion. Good luck. Tom Coburn From peg!paua at ORG.IGC Thu Sep 12 13:25:28 1991 From: peg!paua at ORG.IGC (peg!paua at ORG.IGC) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 91 06:25:28 -0700 Subject: soc.culture.india Message-ID: <161227015118.23782.272005982210375645.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Can anyone on this list supply me with information or good sources on _Ananda Marga_ and its (possible) links with current Hindu Revivalism, especially organisations such as the BJP, RSS, VHP, and individuals such as Sakar ? Adam Bogacki. Domain: paua at peg.pegasus.oz.au Internet: paua at peg.apc.org From D87 at EARN.DHDURZ1 Thu Sep 12 10:20:28 1991 From: D87 at EARN.DHDURZ1 (Thomas Malten ) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 91 10:20:28 +0000 Subject: soc.culture.india Message-ID: <161227015117.23782.17635638553589603438.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> i would like to have a look at a list called ?soc.culture.india on usenet, but don't know how to reach it. i also dug out from the old logs on the indology list references to a Sanskrit Text Archive and would like to know the state of affairs. we are collecting materials for a Tamil Text Archive and could profit from previous experience (i have seen the report on the STA conference 1988). Thomas Malten, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg From ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL Thu Sep 12 19:01:44 1991 From: ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 91 19:01:44 +0000 Subject: soc.culture.india Message-ID: <161227015120.23782.1775777464119929164.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> > : i would like to have a look at a list called soc.culture.india on usenet, but don't know how to reach it. Dear Thomas, There are hundreds of subject-wise discussion groups available through the Usenet system. Also known as Netnews. As far as I know, this is only accessible if you have an account on a networked Unix machine. Unix has some utilities for reading this news, which appears to the user a bit like email. If you have a Unix account, try the commands "rn" (for "read news") or "nn" (net news). If you don't have a Unix machine, then probably you just can't get the news. There may be some sort of news reader under VMS, since that operating system tries hard to keep up with the facilities offered by Unix. :-) Poor DEC. Fancy inventing the wrong operating system. I suppose Apishali and the others must have felt that way when they saw the Ashtadhyayi! I used to follow the soc.culture.india group at one time. I stopped becuase the volume of messages was too high. I would not be unusual to find upwards of thirty messages a day. Also, the subject matter was too contemporary for me. Hindi movies, current politics, arguments about caste, etc. Wonderful material for a sociologist, though. i also dug out from the old logs on the indology list references to a Sanskrit Text Archive and would like to know the state of affairs. we are collecting materials for a Tamil Text Archive and could profit from previous experience (i have seen the report on the STA conference 19 > 88). I hope Richard Lariviere will answer this for you. Briefly, as I understand it, Austin has undertaken to provide a digital Ramayana text, but no more. A digital Mahabharata is underway in Delhi. I saw the project a couple of months ago, and can report more later. But the prospect of having something usable in the forseeable future is slim. (E.g., there's only one typist!) The most important work in digitizing texts currently being done is that of Prof. Peter Schreiner, at Zurich. Again, I hope I can nudge him into giving a brief account of what he has done (Peter?). Apart from the sheer volume of texts that Peter has typed, his work is of special value because he analyses sandhi and compounds as he goes, and no program to do this successfully has yet been released. Dominik From JACOCK01 at EARN.ULKYVM Fri Sep 13 14:59:41 1991 From: JACOCK01 at EARN.ULKYVM (Jim Cocks) Date: Fri, 13 Sep 91 10:59:41 -0400 Subject: Availability of NetNews on VMS and VM Message-ID: <161227015125.23782.852157288409281478.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> >> : i would like to have a look at a list called >> soc.culture.india on usenet, but don't know how to reach it. > Dear Thomas, >................................................. As far as I >know, this is only accessible if you have an account on a networked >Unix machine. Usenet is based in "Unix land" but there are feeds to both DEC and IBM systems. To recieve it on an IBM VM machine you need some free software (Penn State is one supplier) and an electronic feed. We have Usenet (NetNews) here on our VAX cluster and are now testing a feed to our IBM VM system. Our initial feed comes to the VAX from a Unix machine at another University. Best check with your local sysadmin people. If you would like any further info let me know and I'll dig up what I have. --Jim Cocks Bitnet: JACOCK01 at ULKYVM University of Louisville --------- From D87 at EARN.DHDURZ1 Fri Sep 13 15:46:32 1991 From: D87 at EARN.DHDURZ1 (Thomas Malten ) Date: Fri, 13 Sep 91 15:46:32 +0000 Subject: soc.culture.india Message-ID: <161227015121.23782.4703620970108387369.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> dear dominik, i wonder whether these usenet lists also have logs which could be retrieved from some site through ftp? i would even prefer to get may information that way because then i can go through them with some searches for key words. i also dislike reading 30 e-mails a day but one never knows what turns up. -thomas From ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL Fri Sep 13 19:43:23 1991 From: ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Fri, 13 Sep 91 19:43:23 +0000 Subject: soc.culture.india Message-ID: <161227015123.23782.3175255400346299211.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> i wonder whether these usenet lists also have logs which could be retriev > ed from some site through ftp? i would even prefer to get may information th > at way because then i can go through them with some searches for key words. > i also dislike reading 30 e-mails a day but one never knows what turns up. (Sorry about the strange layout of the quoted text above. We have a new Unix system here -- AIX -- and several old workhorse programs like mail seem to have developed little glitches.) Some of the usenet groups are indeed archived, especially those which distribute programs, both sources and binaries. But the discussion groups are less likely to be archived, and in the case of soc.culture.india I am almost certain that the discussion is not archived. Unless some individual with an exceptionally strong hoarding instinct is doing it privately. The only way to find out is to join up and ask the question. Dominik From AKR at EDU.BROWN.BROWNVM Sat Sep 14 17:58:41 1991 From: AKR at EDU.BROWN.BROWNVM (Ajit Ranade) Date: Sat, 14 Sep 91 13:58:41 -0400 Subject: India-D an edited discussion list available to non-Unix too Message-ID: <161227015128.23782.14063382110432111197.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Since there has been some interest about soc.culture.india, which is basically a free-for-all discussion list, I thought I might point Indology list subsribers to an edited discussion list called INDIA-D. It is anonymously edited and comes with an index of topics covered. It does sometimes carry cross postings from s.c.i. and also has a bias toward contemporary topics. (But then I am reminded about a series of nine articles in INDIA-D which were transcripts of talks on Vedic Science given in University of Wisconsin. These talks were given by the director of National Chemical Laboratories, Pune, India. They can also be retrieved by anonymous ftp. But I digress.) Moreover INDIA-D can be subscribed from anywhere (no restriction to be citizen of Unixland, as in the case of s.c.i.). I am reproducing below the blurb which comes with every issue of INDI-D. As far as I know INDIA-D comes out once in two or three days. Hope this is helpful. oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I N N DDDDD I AA DDDDD I NN N D D I A A D D I N N N D D I A A +++++ D D I N N N D D I AAAAAA D D I N NN D D I A A D D I N N DDDDD I A A DDDDD oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo o o oooooooPLEASE NOTEooooooooooo o oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo o o 1. India-d is a forum for seeking and dispensing information. It is o a forum, where YOU can express your views and opinions. India-d o is anonymously edited. oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo o o 2. We encourage widest possible distribution of this digest. You are o welcome to distribute copies of this digest to your friends. o 3. Send Replies or Contributions to editor at andy.bgsu.edu o (instead of using reply-mail) o 4. Please Supply Appropriate Subject Header o 5. Send Subscription Requests to editor-request at andy.bgsu.edu o or o 6. use bitnet interactive commands - o TELL LISTSERV AT UKCC SUBSCRIBE INDIA-D Your Name [VM/CMS system] o SEND LISTSERV at UKCC SUBSCRIBE INDIA-D your name [VMS system] oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo o From ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL Sat Sep 14 16:06:39 1991 From: ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Sat, 14 Sep 91 16:06:39 +0000 Subject: examples of subject headings from soc.culture.indian Message-ID: <161227015126.23782.2833027309336832065.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Since there has been some interest in the soc.culture.indian Usenet group, I here list a few screens-worth of recent subject headings from the group, to give you a feel of the sort of things that are discussed: 33452 Re: I feel bad for Tamil Nadu: 33453 Re: __LONELY HEARTS CLUB__ 35110 trading stamps 35111 Fun test. 35112 Query: Ticketing info. in India 35113 Re: U.S. Sprint 35114 Just a test, pls ignore. 35115 A.C.TECH MADRAS respond PLEASE,PLEASE,PLEASE 35116 Lookin for Raghuram and Srividya of Clarkson Univ.ChemEngg. 35117 Tax Treaty 35118 test 35119 Info-Needed:Job/economic scene- MI,IN,OH 35120 INFO ON SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA,LAFAYETTE 35121 Questions about Physician's Assistants (PA) requirements 35122 Guarding against Insouciance (pochchaavaamai) 35123 Computer news from India 35124 Re:Info on Bombay airports 35125 Re: Info on Bombay airport(s) ? 35126 A SUBAHSHITA to remember in insane days 35127 Re: Le Condom Kings 35128 Re: Indian Ambassador and VHP 35129 Re: Indian Ambassador and VHP 35130 Re: Le Condom Kings 35131 Re: Geetha Pradeep, the Travel Agent 35132 Re: Geetha Pradeep, the Travel Agent 35133 Sweeta aur Geeta (was Re: Geetha Pradeep) 35134 Re: Film Reviews: 100 Days, Prem Quaidi 35135 babawawa crossette finishes tenure in south asia... 35136 Re: Le Condom Kings 35137 Green Card Qn. 35138 what is the meaning of IMO ? 35139 vehicles in transfer residence? 35140 Re: 8 hour layover in Singapore 35141 Re: GeethaPradeep, Travel Agents and Future Coop. 35142 Re: Indian Ambassador and VHP 35143 Re: Indian Ambassador and VHP 35144 Re: Tiffin: Mohr/Kara Appam (Easy, No Fry!) 35145 More poison from VHP ( was Re: Indian Ambassador) 35146 Re: Quiz 35147 Re: Article on Calcutta in Smithsonian 35148 Article on Calcutta in Smithsonian 35149 Re: Subcontinent Economic Common Market? 35150 Re: Quiz 35151 Re: Tiffin: Mohr/Kara Appam (Easy, No Fry!) 35152 Info on RUTGERS, New Jersey 35153 Re: Article on Calcutta in Smithsonian 35154 Mathura before Mahmud 35155 Re: Shankara and the law-givers 35156 test 35157 Re: BJP..... 35158 testing 35159 Mughal-e-Azam kaa sikkaa 35160 Re: Indian Ambassador and VHP 35161 Looking for Sanjay in Stevens Institute of Tech 35162 Re: Indian Ambassador and VHP 35163 Re: SriDevi and playback singers; Bombay movie industry 35164 Re: Tax Treaty 35165 Re: WHY NOT A rec.indian.music ? 35166 Re: Quiz 35167 Re: WHY NOT A rec.indian.music ? 35168 Re: WHY NOT A rec.indian.music ? 35169 CV Raman and KS Krishnan (was Re: Article on Calcutta... 35170 Re: Some information on VHP association of formerIndian Ambassador. 35171 Computer consulting opportunities in India? 35172 Le Condom Kings-The Sequel 35173 Re: More poison from VHP ( was Re: Indian Ambassador) 35174 H-1 visa 35175 South Dakota College 0f Mines & Tech. 35176 Re: WHY NOT A rec.indian.music ? 35177 HongKong/Singapore-Bombay Fares? 35178 Re: WHY NOT A rec.indian.music ? 35179 Re: Some information on VHP association of formerIndian Ambassador. 35180 GOI's (un)secular nature 35181 Re: YOUTH DISCOUNT FARES ON INDIAN AIRLINES 35182 Under the Banian tree? (was Re: Indian Ambassador and VHP) 35183 Sitayanam? (was Re: BJP.....) 35184 Re: Geetha Pradeep, the Travel Agent 35185 Re: WHY NOT A rec.indian.music ? 35186 Re: WHY NOT A rec.indian.music ? 35187 Re: Guarding against Insouciance (pochchaavaamai) 35188 Re: Aurangzeb, Gazni, Mongols 35189 Looking for Friends.... 35190 Conference on Combatting Family Violence ....... 35191 What to do if one has to leave US for > 1 year? 35192 Any Indians in/near Stuttgart, Germany? 35193 SUMEET Food Grinder 35194 Re: WHY NOT A rec.indian.music ? 35195 Help for Univ of Cincinnati. 35196 Re: Immigration Dates 35197 Re: Shankara and the law-givers 35198 Re: Shankara and the law-givers 35199 HOME DECORATION IDEAS - an INDIAN theme requested ... 35200 RAKHI on August 25th!! 35201 Le Condom Kings 35202 Re: Le Condom Kings 35203 Re: RENEWING PASSPORTS 35204 >> *** 1988 Honda Civic Dx for sale *** 35205 Baggage allowance on INDIAN AIRLINES for int'l passangers(was: YOUTH DISCOUNT FARES) 35206 INFO ABOUT WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY MANUFACTURING ENGG PROGRAM 35207 How good is Malaysian Airlines? 35208 Re: Le Condom Kings 35209 ONAM 35210 Bombay & Hong Kong Film Industry 35211 Re: re: Japanese translator of Rushdie 35212 Re: La hinda Helpo Fundajxo 35213 Re: Did Gandhi want Islamic rule in India? 35214 Re: Please avoid Geetha Pradeep 35215 GeethaPradeep, Travel Agents and Future Coop. 35216 Re: La hinda Helpo Fundajxo 35217 Re: Did Gandhi want Islamic rule in India? 35218 Pakistan Develops LCA 35219 Re: chronology of Mahabharata 35220 Re: BJP has some good aspects to it...... 35221 Re: Geetha Pradeep, comments and experience(s) Dominik From JACOCK01 at EARN.ULKYVM Mon Sep 16 15:17:47 1991 From: JACOCK01 at EARN.ULKYVM (Jim Cocks) Date: Mon, 16 Sep 91 11:17:47 -0400 Subject: Availability of NetNews on VMS and VM Message-ID: <161227015130.23782.8691273823376931348.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> I posted this last week but never saw it appear. We were having some problems locally, so I apologize if this has already been distributed. >> : i would like to have a look at a list called >> soc.culture.india on usenet, but don't know how to reach it. >> Dear Thomas, >................................................. As far as I >know, this is only accessible if you have an account on a networked >Unix machine. Usenet is based in "Unix land" but there are feeds to both DEC and IBM systems. To recieve it on an IBM VM machine you need some free software (Penn State is one supplier) and an electronic feed. We have Usenet (NetNews) here on our VAX cluster and are now testing a feed to our IBM VM system. Our initial feed comes to the VAX from a Unix machine at another University. Best check with your local sysadmin people. If you would like any further info let me know and I'll dig it up what I have. --Jim Cocks Bitnet: JACOCK01 at ULKYVM University of Louisville --------- From AG5 at EARN.DHDURZ1 Fri Sep 20 12:02:33 1991 From: AG5 at EARN.DHDURZ1 (Birgit Mayer ) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 91 12:02:33 +0000 Subject: Visuvalingam's address Message-ID: <161227015131.23782.17958815867227285964.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> If anyone knows the present address of Sunthar Visuvalingam, please inform me. I should be very glad to know it. Thank you very much. Birgit From ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL Wed Sep 25 17:14:12 1991 From: ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 91 17:14:12 +0000 Subject: Gujarati on the MAC. Message-ID: <161227015133.23782.13516074364487334841.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> A Mr Ratilal P. Chandaria has asked me if I can help him with a problem. He is working hard at getting his Apple Mac to do Gujarati intelligently. He has a font, and keyboard layout. He uses MS Word by preference. Now he wants to set up a Gujarati spelling checker for use with Word. Or indeed, with any program. He is not anchored to Word, and has had some luck with another WP program called WinWrite (I think it was) which is better at multilingual stuff. Anyone who would like to discuss this, or help Mr Chandaria, is invited to contact him at 23 Radnor Place, London W2 2TG England. Office phone: 071 723 2323 FAX 071 724 9297. Thanks. Please don't contact me about this! Dominik From JBRONKHO at CH.UNIL.ULYS Fri Sep 27 07:56:41 1991 From: JBRONKHO at CH.UNIL.ULYS (JBRONKHO at CH.UNIL.ULYS) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 91 07:56:41 +0000 Subject: Vacancy Message-ID: <161227015134.23782.11687590024705009541.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Extract from a recent announcement: L'Universit'e de Lausanne met au concours un poste de professeur ordinaire, 'a plein temps, d' ETUDES BOUDDHIQUES concernant principalement le bouddhisme indien ..... ENTREE EN FONCTION: 1er septembre 1992 ou 'a convenir. .... .... CANDIDATURE: Les documents suivants (en 7 exemplaires) doivent parvenir jsuqu'au 15 octobre 1991 au Doyen de la Facult'e des Lettres, Universit'e de Lausanne, BFSH 2, CH 1015 LAUSANNE. -lettre de candidature -curriculum vitae complet -liste de publications (ne pas envoyer, pour le moment, les publications elles-memes). From ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL Fri Sep 27 13:56:22 1991 From: ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 91 13:56:22 +0000 Subject: Devanagari for TeX Message-ID: <161227015136.23782.3029201410863755145.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> As several INDOLOGISTs already know, Frans Velthuis has created a superb Devanagari font using Metafont. This is primarily for use with TeX, although such fonts can be converted into HP LaserJet fonts, etc. (But then there would be problems with inputting conjunct consonants, etc. This is all solved for TeX users.) Two bits of news about Frans's fonts. 1/ The main news is that they have now been released for distribution free of charge. They are not (quite) public domain, but are protected by a GNU software license. In practice they are free. 2/ For advanced LaTeX users who are using the Mittelbach/Schoepf New Font Selection Scheme, I have modified dev.sty so that it can be used with the NFSS. The new Devanagari font style is called "newdev.sty". Dominik