From NKATZ at CFRVM.EARN  Sun May  1 17:20:00 1994
From: NKATZ at CFRVM.EARN (Nathan Katz, University of South Florida)
Date: Sun, 01 May 94 13:20:00 -0400
Subject: wild canines
Message-ID: <161227016819.23782.13690791987989311152.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

How carefully are distinctions between various wild canines drawn in Sanskrit?
 How much overlap is there between foxes, jackals, etc.? Thanks for your help.
--Nathan Katz
 
 





From hastinapura at ax.apc.org  Mon May  2 03:50:04 1994
From: hastinapura at ax.apc.org (Flavio Omar Mineiro)
Date: Mon, 02 May 94 00:50:04 -0300
Subject: Sanskrit Dictionary
Message-ID: <161227016821.23782.7035124479705777134.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

indology at liverpool.ac.uk
Dear Colleagues:
	I am looking for an electronic Sanskrit dictionary for running 
under DOS or Windows. 
	Exists something like this?
	 CD-ROM?

	Thank you.

Flavio Mainero
hastinapura at ax.apc.org
	
 


>?From THRASHER at MAIL.LOC.GOV 05 1994 May GMT 19:05:19
Date: 05 May 1994 19:05:19 GMT
From: ALLEN W THRASHER <THRASHER at MAIL.LOC.GOV>
Subject: FORWARDED MAIL....

  
  
=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.= 
                          Jan Brzezinski, PhD 
                  Centre for the Study of Religion 
                        University of Toronto 
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= 
---------- Forwarded message ---------- 
Date: Mon, 2 May 94 12:33:09 EDT 
From: Stephen McDowell <smcdowe at ccs.carleton.ca> 
To: brzezins at epas.utoronto.ca 
Subject: 
  
-    -    -    -    -     -    -     -     -     -     -     -    - 
  
>From lfenech at epas.utoronto.ca Thu Apr 28 09:16:44 1994 
From: lfenech at epas.utoronto.ca (Louis Fenech) 
  
  
  While translating an early nineteenth-century Punjabi/Braj text I 
came across the name of a king who has me completely stumped.  The 
passage goes something like this: 
       "As Raja Bipasachat witnessed the attractions of Maya so too 
do the Sikhs..."  The passage may also read this way: 
  
       "As the Brahman Raja Sachat [Bip is a Punjabi word for 
Brahman]..." 
  
  Any word on a text which deals with this elusive king will be a 
great help. 
  
Khodafez 
  
Lou Fenech 
  
* 
  
  
  
  
------------------------------------------
THIS IS A REPLY TO THE ABOVE MESSAGE
SUBJECT OF THE REPLY: REPLY                         
------------------------------------------
          Could  Raja Bipasachata be  (in  Sanskrit) Vipas'cit?   The  only 
          individuals I  see for this name are (St. Petersburg Lexicon) the 
          Indra under the  Manu Sva-rokis.a(Visnupurana, Markandeya Purana) 
          and a Buddha (Lalitavistara).  Vettam Mani's Puranic Encyclopedia 
          adds "husband  of Pi-vari-, the  princess  of  Vidarbha.   It  is 
          mentioned in  the Markandeya Purana, that because of  the  sinful 
          acts done by this man towards his wife he had to  go  to hell.  A 
          look at  S. Sorenson's Index to the names in  the Mahabharata and 
          other books of onomastics might turn up other characters.  Or  it 
          could be  a  name made up  for  the character in this work, "King 
          Wise." 
           
          Allen Thrasher 
          Library of Congress 
          thrasher at mail.loc.gov                                             
 





From rsalomon at u.washington.edu  Thu May  5 23:28:19 1994
From: rsalomon at u.washington.edu (Richard Salomon)
Date: Thu, 05 May 94 16:28:19 -0700
Subject: Association of South Asian Archaeologists
Message-ID: <161227016823.23782.3584585577070159900.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Does anyone know about plans for the next meeting of the Association of 
South Asian Archaeologists in Western Europe?  My understanding is that 
it will be held in Cambridge, either this or next summer.  Can anyone 
tell me which is correct, and/or whom to contact about it?

Richard Salomon
University of Washington
Seattle WA 98195 (USA)
 





From PWilliams at UH.EDU  Fri May  6 18:15:42 1994
From: PWilliams at UH.EDU (PWilliams at UH.EDU)
Date: Fri, 06 May 94 13:15:42 -0500
Subject: please repost yogasutras message
Message-ID: <161227016827.23782.17274660810490262468.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Friends:

A too-eager delete-button finger....Please re-post the recent message
about how to get Patanjali's Yogasautras via FTP.

Thanks!
-- Pat
______________________________________________________________________
Patrick S. Williams | Dept. of Social Sciences, U. of Houston-Downtown 
pwilliams at uh.edu    | One Main Street, Houston, TX 77002-1001               
                    | voice: (713) 221-8982, fax: (713) 221-8144
 





From D.Wujastyk at ucl.ac.uk  Fri May  6 23:17:49 1994
From: D.Wujastyk at ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk)
Date: Fri, 06 May 94 17:17:49 -0600
Subject: Sabhaparvan text now available
Message-ID: <161227016828.23782.16586912716044645756.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>



Thanks to the generosity of Barend van Nooten, the machine-readable text of
the sabhaa parvan of the Mahaabhaarata is now available to INDOLOGY members
(and others).  The file is available for anonymous ftp (or gopher) from
"ftp.bcc.ac.uk", in directory /public/users/ucgadkw/indology, and is called
"mahabharata-sabhaparvan.zip".

The file is also available by email from the INDOLOGY file server (send the
message "help" to the address "listserv at liverpool.ac.uk" to find out how to
order a file by email).

I'm sure this text will be of enormous use and importance to researchers
interested many aspects of Sanskrit language and literature, and we all owe
a tremendous vote of thanks to Bart for his Herculean labours in preparing
this file.

I append part of the readme.1st file that accompanies the text.

Dominik

===========================


        Information about the electronic texts SABHA.PAD and SABHA.SAN

        The text on this diskette is that of the Sabh!parvan of the
Mahabharata published as part of the Critical Edition of the Mahabharata in
Poona, 1944. (THE SABHAPARVAN, ... critically edited by Franklin Edgerton,
Poona, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 1944).  The encoding was
done largely by myself in 1964.  As the Sanskrit words were entered I added
codes to allow external sandhi resolution.  This is the text found in the
file: SABHA.SAN.  Subsequently, I wrote a program to convert the text to a
second text, SABHA.PAD, where the external sandhi was resolved.  The second
text lends itself to making glossaries and indexes.

        The following codes were used:

[ ... section deleted since 8-bit characters are used]

        The text is here presented in the Vienna 1990 code.  For your
convenience, I have added a filter I wrote, INT2PC.SG, which lists every
letter of the Vienna code in the form of its ASCII number, followed by an
equal-sign.  The filter is a plain ASCII file.  If you use a system
different than the Vienna code on your own computer, then you can edit the
filter and enter the ASCII numbers that you use on your own PC, after the
equal-signs.  You can then use the filter to convert the Sabha text within
a few seconds to a text encoded in your private alphabet.  The command line
is:

  SG INT2PC.SG SABHA.SAN (or SABHA.PAD) OUTFILE.

 The program SG.EXE is also included.  The converted text will be in the
file OUTFILE.

================================== end of readme.1st file =================
--
Dominik Wujastyk           Phone (and voice messages): +44 71 611 8467
Wellcome Institute, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE.
 





From D.Wujastyk at ucl.ac.uk  Fri May  6 23:18:06 1994
From: D.Wujastyk at ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk)
Date: Fri, 06 May 94 17:18:06 -0600
Subject: Machine readable text of the Yogasutras
Message-ID: <161227016825.23782.16253031445240387224.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>


Some months ago, Ashok Aklujkar generously made available to us all his
machine readable transcription of the Paatanjala Yogasuutras.  These files
have been available for some time at the site
"blackbox.hacc.washington.edu", courtesy of Tom Ridgeway.

I have now made a copy of Ashok's text available at "ftp.bcc.ac.uk" in the
directory public/users/ucgadkw/indology and also at Liverpool for retrieval
by email in the normal way (send a message "help" to
"listserv at liverpool.ac.uk" to find out more).

Enjoy, thanks to Ashok.

Dominik
--
Dominik Wujastyk           Phone (and voice messages): +44 71 611 8467
Wellcome Institute, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE.
 





From srice at cruzio.com  Sun May  8 05:37:23 1994
From: srice at cruzio.com (Stanley Rice)
Date: Sat, 07 May 94 22:37:23 -0700
Subject: Publication of "Ribhu Gita"
Message-ID: <161227016830.23782.7309332829177395675.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

[I've seen the book described in the release below. I'm 
passing this on because others may just find this "Gita"
as extraordinary as I do. Let me hear, if you do!  Stan R]

___________________________________________________________

** BOOK NEWS-RELEASE ** PUBLICATION OF THE "RIBHU GITA"
Translated by Dr. H. Ramamoorthy, assisted by Master Nome
___________________________________________________________

- The "Ribhu Gita," a consummate work of the spirit, is now
published for the first time in English. It is an ancient, and
astonishing, description of Nondual experience and understanding.
  H.H. Sri Chandrasekharendra Sarasvati, a Sankaracharya of the
Kamakoti Pitha, has stated in glowing terms that the "Ribhu
Gita" is to the Sivarahasya as the "Bhagavad Gita" is to the
Mahabharata. The purity of the Nondual experience conveyed 
is of particular interest to students in respect to the origins
of Buddhism (all forms, but particularly Ch'an/Zen) and
Christianity (especially early Gnostic.) The indubitable 
authenticity of the conveyed experience of reality resembles that
in the better-known Avadhut Gita and Ashtavakra Gita.

- First-hand descriptions of the experience of Nonduality are 
precious and rare. None is more powerful than this classic. Its
uncompromising declaration communicates the uninterrupted
direct experience of the Sage known as Ribhu. The language
is accessible, forceful--and points clearly beyond the limits of
time and circumstance. The Indian cultural frame, traditional
dialog between Teacher and Student, disappears into directly
penetrating insight that is absolute beyond any concept.

(Prepublication price of $20. until May 25, then $24.95) 

This is the first of a series of books in the area of Indian
Advaita Vedanta from the Society of Abidance in Truth. 
Send as noted below to receive future publication notices.

---------
NOTE ALSO: Sri Sankara's classic "Nirguna Manasa Puja" (Worship
of the Attributeless One in the Mind) will also be available
for the first time in English, in a new translation by Dr.
H. Ramamoorthy assisted by Master Nome. The first printing
has been shipped from India and will arrive late in July.
The price will be $5.95 retail.
_______________________________________________________________

>From Richard Morey, Director: 
THE SOCIETY OF ABIDANCE IN TRUTH  [SAT]
Box 8080, Santa Cruz, CA 95061-8080  :  408-425-7287
_______________________________________________________________

[Electronic reactions to this can go to: srice at cruzio.com]




-- 
Stan Rice, Autospec Inc, srice at cruzio.com  s.rice1 at genie.geis.com



 





From balachan at plains.NoDak.edu  Mon May  9 00:17:57 1994
From: balachan at plains.NoDak.edu (Chandra Balachandra)
Date: Sun, 08 May 94 19:17:57 -0500
Subject: Call for papers.
Message-ID: <161227016832.23782.4178186835865951674.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>


			CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS:
			----------------------

			"Imaginary Geographies"
			 ========= ===========


  		    An edited collection of essays


	Chandra S. Balachandran			Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

	Department of Geosciences		Committee on Degrees in 
	North Dakota State University		       Literature and History
	Fargo, ND				Harvard University
						Cambridge, MA
	balachan at badlands.nodak.edu		jjcohen at husc.harvard.edu

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

	A collection of essays is being planned under the broad umbrella
of geography/cultural studies.  This collection will broadly explore the
mapping of the possible through the creation of the irreal:  verbal
geographies of invisible/irreal places, immaterial/irreal "placeness," and
cyberspace -- basically geographies of largely experiential places, lands
that never were.  There are no boundaries to this inquiry -- disciplinary,
temporal, cultural, or otherwise.  
 
	We are trying to develop as the central trope of our collection, a
notion we are calling "unsettling" -- the process both of (de)colonization
and of "troubling" cultural spaces, real and irreal.  Problematics of
boundaries, race, gender, sexuality, and the body, as well as
methodologies for these spaces, seem naturally related to this collection. 

	We particularly welcome contributions that explore these issues
from any disciplinary perspective that would unsettle any cultural
category through an exploration of the mapping of the imaginary. 

------------ END ----------

 





From petr at merle.acns.nwu.edu  Tue May 17 12:22:12 1994
From: petr at merle.acns.nwu.edu (petr at merle.acns.nwu.edu)
Date: Tue, 17 May 94 07:22:12 -0500
Subject: help
Message-ID: <161227016834.23782.14934401808841804786.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>



	Good morning!
	Two questions please: Are there any devanagari and tamil fonts
	on the market (for PC)? If yes, may I have addresses, phone numbers,
	faxes, e-mails and prices?
	And old sanskrit texts? Do already exist e.g. mahabharatam, ramayanam,
	vedas, upanishads, kathasaritsagaram etc. etc. on diskettes or CD's?
	Thank you very much for your kind help, I really appreciate it very
	much.
	Very faithfully,





							Petr Holman

						  petr at merle.acns.nwu.edu

	

	

	P.S. And sanskrit grammar?
 





From dbrk at troi.cc.rochester.edu  Wed May 18 11:24:14 1994
From: dbrk at troi.cc.rochester.edu (Douglas R. Brooks)
Date: Wed, 18 May 94 07:24:14 -0400
Subject: help
Message-ID: <161227016839.23782.5292302347523330104.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Petr,
I don't mean to be a pest but I am forwarding
yet another piece of information about 
devanagari fonts.
Forgive me if you have already received it.

Shanti,
Douglas Brooks
 





From D.Wujastyk at ucl.ac.uk  Wed May 18 15:47:17 1994
From: D.Wujastyk at ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk)
Date: Wed, 18 May 94 09:47:17 -0600
Subject: Fw: Indian fonts
Message-ID: <161227016836.23782.4526715851316117570.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

I thought this might be of interest.
Dominik

------------------------------
>From: avinash at bronze.lcs.mit.edu (Avinash Chopde)
>Newsgroups: comp.fonts
>Subject: All Indian Language Fonts. (was Re: KANNADA FONTS, PLEASE?)
>Date: 16 May 1994 17:54:13 -0400
>Organization: Just a Guest Here.
>Lines: 35
>Message-ID: <2r8q25$28q at bronze.lcs.mit.edu>
>References: <94133.070032U40200 at uicvm.uic.edu>
>Reply-To: avinash at avid.com
>NNTP-Posting-Host: bronze.ai.mit.edu
>Keywords: Commercial, PostScript Type 1, TrueType.

In article <94133.070032U40200 at uicvm.uic.edu>
 Tonse.N.K.Raju <U40200 at uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>I wish to buy Kannada Fonts for IBM. Any help in this regard
>will be gretly appreciated.

For reasonably priced, good quality PostScript Type 1 or TrueType
indian language fonts contact:
    Mr. Shrikrishna Patil
    21647 Rainbow Drive
    Cupertino, CA 95014-4826

    Fax:   (408) 255 6443
    Voice: (408) 446 9144

Fonts cost from $35 to $50 each, multiple font packages are sold at a
discount. These fonts can be used in any Mac System 7.x or MS-Windows 3.x
application.

And, I can personally vouch for this 78 year old artist, in fact I am
working with him to develop some easier text-entry mechanisms for indian
languages.
Many marathi language publications in the US and Canada make use of his
fonts.
If you have any questions regarding his fonts, call him up or send me
e-mail.

And, just so this post is not full of commercial info, if you are looking
for freeware fonts, refer to the FAQs of comp.fonts and soc.culture.indian.
Telugu is available for TeX, though Kannada specifically is not.

Note: Though I am currently working with Mr. Patil, I have no commercial
interest in the sale of his fonts.
--
----
Avinash Chopde
avinash at acm.org
--
Dominik Wujastyk           Phone (and voice messages): +44 71 611 8467
Wellcome Institute, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE.
 





From brzezins at epas.utoronto.ca  Fri May 20 17:41:27 1994
From: brzezins at epas.utoronto.ca (J.K. Brzezinski)
Date: Fri, 20 May 94 13:41:27 -0400
Subject: Search for Donna Wulff
Message-ID: <161227016841.23782.6361402832104629229.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Does anyone know the E-mail address of Donna Wulff, the scholar of 
Bengali religion and music?

Thank you for your help.

=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=
                          Jan Brzezinski, PhD
		  Centre for the Study of Religion
		        University of Toronto
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=

 


>?From KHARE at csvaxd.csuohio.edu 20 94 May EST 14:41:00
Date: 20 May 94 14:41:00 EST
From: Jitendra Khare <KHARE at csvaxd.csuohio.edu>
Subject: Konkansth Brahmins from India...

Hullo!  I was wondering if any subscriber in this newsgroup knows about the histroy of evolution(?) of Konkansth Brahmins from Maharashtra? I am particularly interested in knowing why they are fair w/different coloured eyes.
Jitendra Khare
Khare at csvaxe.csuohio.edu

 





From srice at cruzio.com  Sat May 21 01:01:21 1994
From: srice at cruzio.com (Stanley Rice)
Date: Fri, 20 May 94 18:01:21 -0700
Subject: Important Spiritual book being published...
Message-ID: <161227016843.23782.15458773646365761148.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

[I've seen the book described in the release below. I'm 
passing this on because others may just find this "Gita"
as extraordinary as I do. Let me hear, if you do!  Stan R]

___________________________________________________________

** BOOK NEWS-RELEASE ** PUBLICATION OF THE "RIBHU GITA"
Translated by Dr. H. Ramamoorthy, assisted by Master Nome
___________________________________________________________

- The "Ribhu Gita," a consummate work of the spirit, is now
published for the first time in English. It is an ancient, and
astonishing, description of Nondual experience and understanding.
  H.H. Sri Chandrasekharendra Sarasvati, a Sankaracharya of the
Kamakoti Pitha, has stated in glowing terms that the "Ribhu
Gita" is to the Sivarahasya as the "Bhagavad Gita" is to the
Mahabharata. The purity of the Nondual experience conveyed 
is of particular interest to students in respect to the origins
of Buddhism (all forms, but particularly Ch'an/Zen) and
Christianity (especially early Gnostic.) The indubitable 
authenticity of the conveyed experience of reality resembles that
in the better-known Avadhut Gita and Ashtavakra Gita.

- First-hand descriptions of the experience of Nonduality are 
precious and rare. None is more powerful than this classic. Its
uncompromising declaration communicates the uninterrupted
direct experience of the Sage known as Ribhu. The language
is accessible, forceful--and points clearly beyond the limits of
time and circumstance. The Indian cultural frame, traditional
dialog between Teacher and Student, disappears into directly
penetrating insight that is absolute beyond any concept.

(Prepublication price of $20. until May 25, then $24.95) 

This is the first of a series of books in the area of Indian
Advaita Vedanta from the Society of Abidance in Truth. 
Send as noted below to receive future publication notices.

---------
NOTE ALSO: Sri Sankara's classic "Nirguna Manasa Puja" (Worship
of the Attributeless One in the Mind) will also be available
for the first time in English, in a new translation by Dr.
H. Ramamoorthy assisted by Master Nome. The first printing
has been shipped from India and will arrive late in July.
The price will be $5.95 retail.
_______________________________________________________________

>From Richard Morey, Director: 
THE SOCIETY OF ABIDANCE IN TRUTH  [SAT]
Box 8080, Santa Cruz, CA 95061-8080  :  408-425-7287
_______________________________________________________________

[Electronic reactions to this can go to: srice at cruzio.com]

-- 
Stan Rice, Autospec Inc, srice at cruzio.com  s.rice1 at genie.geis.com



 





From lnelson at teetot.acusd.edu  Mon May 23 05:06:36 1994
From: lnelson at teetot.acusd.edu (Lance Nelson)
Date: Sun, 22 May 94 22:06:36 -0700
Subject: Fasting
Message-ID: <161227016845.23782.11285440588160363797.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>


Can anyone recommend anything good on the rationale of fasting in Indian
traditions of yoga?  I'd very much appreciate any suggestions.

Lance Nelson
University of San Diego

 





From ac161 at leo.nmc.edu  Tue May 24 14:23:09 1994
From: ac161 at leo.nmc.edu (ac161 at leo.nmc.edu)
Date: Tue, 24 May 94 10:23:09 -0400
Subject: FUNDING/GRNAT DOCUMENTARY PROJECT
Message-ID: <161227016849.23782.10623109906039223203.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>



Re: Grants to Individuals (me, as an independent videotape
producer-director)
 
HELP!
 
I have gotten _no_ where with my local library which is a Regional
Foundation Depository...the first problem, among many, is that I
am an individual and not a non-profit, I am told. 
 
I am looking for funding for a special videotape documentary
project.  At this late date it might be considered Emergency
Funding as I understand there is not time to go through typical
granting cycles.  
 
I have a strong background as a videotape producer-director,
director-cameraman with credits including several series of
videotape programs (documentaries, documentary/case-studies) for
top Fortune companies (industrials) and TV commercial work.  
 
I have several go-aheads and now I need funding, at this late date.  
 
MY CURRENT PROJECT
I want to go to India, in July, with a simple broadcast camera crew,
for three weeks to make a record of a special religious pilgrimage. 
The itinere and the access to each site is what makes this "shoot"
special _and_ since Americans and truly most Indians would not be
able to visit these venues (especially not with this access) because
they exist in a sort of religious underground.  This is a time to
acquire historical footage, truly possibly the last time (because of
government intervention in the running of Hindu temples and the
burgeoning influence of westernized "American" culturalization--
the dying out of spiritual life in lieu of material life).  
 
I am budgeting 100 hours of videotape (to take and shoot).  The
completed programs may (!) include play be for public television in
USA, UK, CANADA.  
 
All assistance will be GREATLY appreciated, especially:
     Telephone numbers of those organizations mandated to
fund this sort of cultural/multi-cultural endeavor
          UN
          WORLD BANK
          ???
 
HELP!   
PLEASE RESPOND TO ME AND not THIS LIST.
 
Thank you.  
      


--
                    Regards,
 
                    Greg Ozimek       Dearborn (Detroit) Michigan
                    ac161 at LEO.NMC.EDU (Internet)
 





From rwl at emx.cc.utexas.edu  Tue May 24 18:45:42 1994
From: rwl at emx.cc.utexas.edu (Richard Lariviere)
Date: Tue, 24 May 94 13:45:42 -0500
Subject: Manu - critically
Message-ID: <161227016851.23782.3436181446073601602.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>


I am very grateful to Dr. Pathak, and, facing the prospect of dealing
with the collation of more than 600 manuscripts, I would like to encourage
him to delete all the verses relating to varna, jati, asrama, or any other
subject that strikes him. . . . . and the sooner the better!

Richard W. Lariviere

Thanks also to Mr. Gruenendahl for passing on this wonderful piece.

On Tue, 24 May 1994, GRUENENDAHL wrote:

> All those from Austin to Benares who may have embarked on a critical 
> edition of the Manusmrti may be interested to hear that help is on the 
> way to reduce their work load by some 20 verses, which is not bad for 
> a start :-)
> 
> THE TIMES OF INDIA, April 16, 1994, "Capital", p. II, had the 
> following thought-provoking article (which is given in full to avoid 
> possible distortion):
> 
> DEBUNK MANUSMRITI OF UNTOUCHABILITY
> (By a staff reporter)
> New Delhi, April 15
> A pledge to delete those slokas in Manusmriti which sanction 
> untouchability was taken by a large gathering here today.
>    The vow was taken after Dr Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of Sulabh 
> International Social Service Organisation, laid the foundation stone 
> for setting up a statue of Baba Saheb Ambedkar to mark his birth 
> anniversary. The statue will be installed at the Sulabh Development 
> Promotion Centre, Palam.
>    Mr Pathak said the deletion of these slokas is necessary to end 
> caste conflict in society. The under-privileged people should also be 
> educated in English medium so that they could compete in the job 
> market. "Dr Ambedkar was a highly educated man. But for his modern, 
> English-based education, he would not have been able to unite forces 
> against social injustice to the poor and the under-privileged. And 
> also frame the Indian Constitution, one of the finest documents in 
> the world."
>    Sulabh International has set up an English-medium public school at 
> Palam where children of scavengers are given science and computer-
> based quality education. Dr. Pathak said such schools should be set 
> up all over the country.
>    Earlier, Mr Arun Pathak, IAS (retd.), former Bihar chief 
> secretary, spoke about the future programmes of the organisation.
> 
> ***************
> 
> 
> Reinhold Gruenendahl
> Niedersaechsische Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek
> 37070 Goettingen
> Germany
> Phone: 0551/395283
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From GRUENEN at mail.sub.gwdg.de  Tue May 24 15:29:52 1994
From: GRUENEN at mail.sub.gwdg.de (GRUENENDAHL)
Date: Tue, 24 May 94 15:29:52 +0000
Subject: Manu - critically
Message-ID: <161227016847.23782.10457807411150518348.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

All those from Austin to Benares who may have embarked on a critical 
edition of the Manusmrti may be interested to hear that help is on the 
way to reduce their work load by some 20 verses, which is not bad for 
a start :-)

THE TIMES OF INDIA, April 16, 1994, "Capital", p. II, had the 
following thought-provoking article (which is given in full to avoid 
possible distortion):

DEBUNK MANUSMRITI OF UNTOUCHABILITY
(By a staff reporter)
New Delhi, April 15
A pledge to delete those slokas in Manusmriti which sanction 
untouchability was taken by a large gathering here today.
   The vow was taken after Dr Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of Sulabh 
International Social Service Organisation, laid the foundation stone 
for setting up a statue of Baba Saheb Ambedkar to mark his birth 
anniversary. The statue will be installed at the Sulabh Development 
Promotion Centre, Palam.
   Mr Pathak said the deletion of these slokas is necessary to end 
caste conflict in society. The under-privileged people should also be 
educated in English medium so that they could compete in the job 
market. "Dr Ambedkar was a highly educated man. But for his modern, 
English-based education, he would not have been able to unite forces 
against social injustice to the poor and the under-privileged. And 
also frame the Indian Constitution, one of the finest documents in 
the world."
   Sulabh International has set up an English-medium public school at 
Palam where children of scavengers are given science and computer-
based quality education. Dr. Pathak said such schools should be set 
up all over the country.
   Earlier, Mr Arun Pathak, IAS (retd.), former Bihar chief 
secretary, spoke about the future programmes of the organisation.

***************


Reinhold Gruenendahl
Niedersaechsische Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek
37070 Goettingen
Germany
Phone: 0551/395283
 





From AAJOHN at macalstr.edu  Wed May 25 16:58:47 1994
From: AAJOHN at macalstr.edu (ANSU ANNA JOHN)
Date: Wed, 25 May 94 11:58:47 -0500
Subject: J.C. Heesterman's address.
Message-ID: <161227016853.23782.2630330611075917492.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Please take me off the mailing list, thankyou
 


>?From THRASHER at MAIL.LOC.GOV 25 1994 May GMT 17:14:17
Date: 25 May 1994 17:14:17 GMT
From: "MAIL.TIBETL1" <THRASHER at MAIL.LOC.GOV>
Subject: DURGA

------------------------------------
AUTHOR: MAIL.TIBETL1                
------------------------------------
Dear friends: 
  
Does anyone have a collection of references on the 
Hindu goddess Durga in Sanskrit, Tibetan and 
English?  How is Durga referred to in Tibetan? 
Is there a Hindu scholars discussion group? 
Is there a computer program for learning sanskrit? 
  
Thanks for any information you may provide. 
  
Philippe.Goldin at teol.lu.se 
  
 


>?From THRASHER at MAIL.LOC.GOV 26 1994 May GMT 19:06:19
Date: 26 May 1994 19:06:19 GMT
From: ALLEN W THRASHER <THRASHER at MAIL.LOC.GOV>
Subject: MANUSMRTI AGAIN

            Re:  Another odd sidelight on the Manusmrti 
           
            A patron today asked what part of India Manusmrti was.  She had 
          apparently read  that  in Manusmrti Kshattriyas did something  or 
          other and she didn't know where. It would follow that if anything 
          is rem oved from it India will lose territory. 
           
          Allen W. Thrasher 
          Senior Reference Librarian 
          Library of Congress 
          Washington, DC 20540-4744 
          tel. (202) 707-5600 
          fax  (202) 707-1724 
          Internet: thrasher at mail.loc.gov 
           
          Any opinions expressed are mine and  not those of  the Library of 
          Congress or its management.                                       
 
 





From ramkumar at flamingo.Stanford.EDU  Thu May 26 21:35:11 1994
From: ramkumar at flamingo.Stanford.EDU (G. Ramkumar)
Date: Thu, 26 May 94 14:35:11 -0700
Subject: None
Message-ID: <161227016860.23782.5430392049717960561.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>


Dear Prof. Deshpande,

Thanks, I will post the typed in version on the net. Although I was
familiar with the lyrics for quite sometime, I never knew the meaning
of most of the words. Your translation was very revealing and I
enjoyed reading it very much. It never ceases to amaze me how much
meaning can be packed into so few syllables of Sanskrit!

Here is the posting with the header, once again.

thanks,

-ram

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		SREE MAHISASURA MARDHINI STOTRAM
		  (With English translation)

	Author: (believed to be) Adi Sankaracharya
	Translation by: Prof. Madhav Deshpande, U.Michigan, Ann Arbor.
	Roman transcription: G. Ramkumar, ramkumar at cs.stanford.edu.

Please contact Prof. Deshpande at Madhav.Deshpande at um.cc.umich.edu if you
have comments or suggestions for improvement in the text or the translation.

(Some of the Sanskrit words were so long they had to broken up for
readability.)

#1
ayi girinandini nanditamedini visvavinodini nandinute ||
girivaravindhya shirodhinivasini vishnuvilaasini jisnunute ||
bhagavati he shitikaNthakutumbini bhoorikutumbini bhoorikrute ||
jaya jaya he mahishaasuramardhini ramyakapardini shailasute ||||

O daughter of the mountain, who makes the whole earth happy, who
makes the whole universe rejoice, praised by Nandin ||
dwelling on the peak of the great Vindhya mountain, glittering widely,
praised by those desirous of victory ||
o goddess, wife of the blue necked siva, one who has many families,
one who has done a lot, ||
be victorious, be victorious, O destroyer of the demon mahisa, with
beautiful braids of hair, daughter of the mountain Himalaya || ||

#2
suravaravarshiNi durdharadharshiNi durmukhamarshiNi harsharate ||
tribhuvanaposhiNi shankaratoshiNi kilbishamoshiNi ghosharate ||
danujaniroshiNi ditisutaroshiNi durmadashoshiNi sindhusute ||
jaya jaya he ... || ||

bestower of boons on Gods, one who assails those hard to control, 
who tolerates those with ugly faces (?), one engrossed in rejoicing ||
one who nourishes the three worlds, one who pleases sankara,
one who removes sins, one who engrosses in sound of Om (?) ||
one who is angry with the progeny of Danu (demon), one who is angry 
with the sons of Diti (also demon), one who destroys those with evil
intoxication of pride, daughter of the ocean ||

#3
ayi jagadamba madamba kadambavanapriyavaasini haasarate ||
shikharishiromaNi tungahimaalaya shringanijaalaya madhyagate ||
madhumadhure madhukaitabhaganjini kaitabhabhanjini raasarate ||
jaya jaya he ... || ||

O mother of the world, my mother, one who loves to dwell in a forest
of Kadamba trees, one who keeps on smiling ||
one who is on her own dwelling on the tall peak of the Himalaya, the 
greatest among the mountains ||
one who is very sweet, one who has the treasure of demons Madhu and
Kaitabha, destroyer of the demon Kaitabha, engaged in dancing ||

#4
ayi shatakhaNda vikhaNditaruNda vituNditashuNda gajaadhipate ||
ripugajagaNda vidaaraNachaNda paraakramashuNda mrigaadhipate ||
nijabhujadaNda nipaatitakhaNda vipatitamuNda bhataadhipate ||
jaya jaya he ... || ||

O one who split the heads (of demons) into hundreds of pieces and one
who cut the trunks of great battle elephants ||
whose great lion is skilled in terrifying valor in tearing apart the
temples of enemy elephants ||
one who has cut down into pieces the heads of enemy chieftains with
the strength of her own arms ||

#5
ayi raNadurmadashatruvadhodita durdharanirjara shaktibhrute ||
chaturavicharadhuriiNamahasiva dutakrita pramathaadhipate ||
duritaduriihaduraashayadurmati daanavaduta krutaantamate ||
jaya jaya he ... || ||

O one who holds the invincible and undiminishing striking force which
arose on the occasion of killing the enemies who were hard to subdue
on the battlefield ||
who made Pramatha, the great attendant of Shiva, a leader in subtle
thinking, her commander (?) ||
who decided to destroy the messenger of demons who were sinful, with
evil intentions, thoughts and mind ||

#6
ayi sharaNaagata vairivadhoovara viiravaraabhayadaayakare ||
tribhuvanamastaka shoolavirodhishiirodhikritaamala shoolakare ||
dumidumitaamara dundubhinaada mahomukhariikrita tigmakare ||
jaya jaya he ... || ||

O one who gives protection to the great heroic husbands of the enemy
wives who have come seeking refuge ||
one who holds in her hands a spotless spear pointed towards the head
of the opponent who is causing a great pain for all the three worlds ||
one who is like the blazing hot sun, aroused by the power of
resounding noise of the drums of Gods ||

#7
ayi nijahunkriti maatraniraakrita dhoomravilochana dhoomrashate ||
samravishoshita shoNitabeeja samudbhavashoNita biijalate ||
shivashivashumbhani shumbhamahaahavatarpita bhutapishaacharate ||
jaya jaya he ... || ||

O one who has blown aside hundreds of streams of smoke coming from
demons with smoking eyes merely with her own roaring ||
who is like a vine of blood-drops grown from the dried blood drops in
battle ||
one who delights in the company of auspicious Shiva, Shumbha,
Nishumbha, and the spirits who were fed during the great battle.||

#8
dhanuranusangaraNakshaNasanga parishphuradanga naTatkaTake ||
kanakapishanga prishatkanishanga rasadbhatasringa hataabaTuke ||
krutachaturanga balakshitiranga ghatadbahuranga raTadbaTuke ||
jaya jaya he ... || ||

one who decks herself with dancing ornaments on throbbing limbs at the
moment of the battle, making her bow ready ||
who killed the huge enemy soldiers with a shining sword and with
(arrows from) a quiver which has golden brown spots ||
who made the battleground with fourfold army into a stage with a
colorful drama with screaming little soldiers ||

#9
jaya jaya japyajaye jayashabda parastutitatatpara vishvanute ||
jhaNa jhaNa jhinjhimijhinkritanoopura sinjitamohita bhootapate ||
natita nataardhanatiinatanaayaka naatitanaatyasugaanarate ||
jaya jaya he ... || ||

be victorious! be victorious! whose victory should be sung, praised by
the whole universe ready to sing the praise extolling her victory ||
who attracted the attention of shiva by twinkling of bells making
various sounds of dancing ||
who delights in beautiful singing and in dance-drama presented by a
leading dancer acting out the role of an actress with half of his body ||

#10
ayi sumanah sumanah sumanah sumanoharakaantiyute ||
shrita rajanii rajanii rajanii rajanii rajaniikaravakravrute ||
sunayanavibhra marabhra marabhra marabhra marabhra maraadhipate||
jaya jaya he ... || ||

O one who has a flowerlike complexion attractive to the good heart of
the goodhearted people ||
(meaning of this part is unclear, the last word seems to mean
"surrounded by the face of the moon" )
(meaning of this compound is not clear)

#11
sahitamahaahava mallamatallika mallitarallaka mallarate ||
virachitavallika pallikamallika shrillikabhillika vargavrute ||
sita kruta phullisamullasitaakruNtallaja pallavasallalite ||
jaya jaya he ... || ||

(text of the verse seems corrupt??)

#12
aviralagaNda galanmadamedura mattamatangajaraajapate ||
tribhuvana bhooshaNa bhootakalaanidhi roopapayonidhiraajasute ||
ayi sudatiijanalaalasamaanasa mohanamanmatharaajasute ||
jaya jaya he ... || ||

who is in charge of huge royal elephants in fury whose rut is
streaming down their temples incessantly ||
princess, the daughter of the ocean, who has the beauty of the moon,
the ornament of all the three worlds ||
princess of cupid who enchants the minds desirous of ladies with
beautiful teeth ||

#13
kamaladalaamalakomala kaantikalaakalitaamala bhaalatale ||
sakalavilaasakalaanilayakrama kelichalatkala hamsakule ||
alikulasankula kuvalayamaNdala maulimiladbakulaalikule ||
jaya jaya he ... || ||

whose spotless forehead is enhanced by the beautiful complexion, pure
and delicate like that of lotus petals ||
whose flock of swans is moving sportingly with steps which are the
marks of all beautiful arts ||
whose bees from the bakula trees meet on the tops of lotus flowers
which are crowded with (their own) bees ||

#14
karamuraliirava viijita koojita lajjita kokila manjumate ||
militapulinda manoharagunjita ranjitashailanikunjagate ||
nijaguNabhoota mahaashabariigaNa sadguNasambhruta kelitale ||
jaya jaya he ... || ||

whose sweet cooing sounds made with the flute held in her own hands
have put to shame the Kokila bird and who has sweet thoughts ||
who is in colorful mountain groves pleasantly resounding with the
assembled mountain folks ||
whose playbround is filled with good qualities of the flocks of the
great tribal women who are manifestations of her own qualities ||

#15
katitatapiitadukoolavichitra mayookhatiraskrita chandraruche||
praNatasuraasura maulimaNisphuradamshulasannakha chandraruche||
jitakanakaachala maulipadorjita nirbharakunjara kumbhakuche ||
jaya jaya he ... || ||

who has set aside the brilliance of the moon with the colorful rays
coming from the yellow silk she is wearing on her waist ||
whose toe-nails shine like the moon because of the rays emanating form
the crest jewels of the bowing gods and demons ||
whose breasts outshine the temples of wild elephants and the high
peaks of the golden mountains ||

#16
vijitasahasra karaikasahasra karaikasahasra karaikanute ||
krutasurataaraka sangarataaraka sangarataaraka soonusute ||
surathasamaadhi samaanasamaadhi samaadhi samaadhi sujaatarate ||
jaya jaya he ... || ||

one who has surpassed the thousand-handed sun with her own thousand
hands and one who is singularly praised by a thousand suns ||
she who performed the battle to save the Gods and whose sons fought a
battle with the demon Taraka and are saviours ||
(meaning of this compound unclear)

#17
padakamalam karuNaanilaye varivasyati yonudinam sashive ||
ayi kamale kamalaanilaye kamalaanilayah sakatham na bhavet ||
tava padameva param padamityanushiilayato mama kim na shive ||
jaya jaya he ... || ||

O benevolent goddess accompanied by Shiva, if someone daily cherishes
your lotuslike feet ||
(contd. from prev line) then, O lotus dwelling Lakshmi, how will he
not become wealthy? ||
O auspicious Goddess, is there anything that I would not have, if I
earnestly believe that your feet are the highest goal to be achieved? ||

#18
kanakalasatkala sindhujalairanusinchinute guNarangabhuvam ||
bhajati sa kim na sachikuchakumbha tatiiparirambha sukhaanubhavam ||
tava charaNam sharaNam karavaaNi nataamaravaaNi nivaasisivam ||
jaya jaya he ... || ||

if someone bathes you, the playground of virtues, with shining golden
waters of the ocean ||
will he not experience in heaven the happiness (equal to that of
Indra) embracing the full bosom of Sachi? ||
O Goddess worshipped by the speech of Gods, I take refuge in your
feet, which are also the abode of Shiva ||

#19
tava vimalendukulam vadanendum alam sakalam nanu koolayate ||
kimu puruhoota puriindumukhiisumukhiibhirasau vimukhiikriyate ||
mama tu matam sivanaamadhane bhavatii kripayaa kimuta kriyate ||
jaya jaya he ... || ||

He who sufficiently dedicates himself to your entire moonlike face,
which is as bright as a host of spotless moons ||
will he be turned away (in heaven) by the moon-faced beauties of the
city of Indra? ||
(the text of this line is unclear) 

#20
ayi mayi diinadayaalutayaa krupayaiva tvayaa bhavitavyamume ||
ayi jagato jananii krupayaasi yathaasi tathanumitaasitare ||
yaduchitamatra bhavatyurariikrutaadurutaapa mapaakrurute ||
jaya jaya he ... || ||

O Uma, you should be kindly disposed toward me because of your virtue
of compassion toward the meek ||
(meaning unclear) ||
you may choose to do (with me) whatever is appropriate, she removes
the great pain (of her devotees). ||

 





From D.Wujastyk at ucl.ac.uk  Fri May 27 23:09:04 1994
From: D.Wujastyk at ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk)
Date: Fri, 27 May 94 17:09:04 -0600
Subject: Dasakumaracarita
Message-ID: <161227016856.23782.12468597808024328859.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>


Thanks are due to Lars Martin Fosse for adding another text to our swelling
archive of machine-readable Sanskrit texts.  Lars has presented selections
from the Dasakumaracarita of Dandin (chs. 3, 5, 6).

The file is available as dandin-dasakumaracarita.zip from
ftp.bcc.ac.uk:/pub/users/ucgadkw/indology.

I append some notes on the file, from Lars's readme.

Many thanks, Lars,

Dominik



========================== extract from DOC file =====================

Extracts from the Da/sakum-aracarita of Da.n.din..
Ucchv-asas 3, 5 and 6.
Edition: The Da/sakum-aracarita of Da.n.din, with a
commentary, edited by M.
R. Kale, Fourth Edition, Motilal Banarsidass 1966.

Transliteration by: Veda Varidhi P. Ramanujan
Transliteration commissioned by: Lars Martin Fosse
Proofreading by: Lars Martin Fosse

...

1.4. Variant readings

Variant readings have not been recorded in this
transliteration version.

...

2. Processing

Several programs have been utilized in the encoding of the
text. These include Word for the Macintosh, WordPerfect (PC-
version) as well as TUSTEP, the Tuebingen System of
Text--Processing Programs ("T!binger System von
Textverarbeitungs--Programmen"). By the means of TUSTEP and
the appropriate filters (TUSTEP programs written for this
purpose), you can get a printout with proper romanized
Sanskrit characters. The text can easily be converted to
other formats.

Comments can be addressed to:
Lars Martin Fosse,
Department of East European and Oriental Studies
University of Oslo
POB 1030, Blindern
0315 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 85 68 48
Fax: +47 22 85 41 40
Email: fosse at hedda.uio.no
--
Dominik Wujastyk           Phone (and voice messages): +44 71 611 8467
Wellcome Institute, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE.
 





From madhav.deshpande at um.cc.umich.edu  Sat May 28 01:37:54 1994
From: madhav.deshpande at um.cc.umich.edu (madhav.deshpande at um.cc.umich.edu)
Date: Fri, 27 May 94 21:37:54 -0400
Subject: text of Mahishasuramardinistotra and an initial translation
Message-ID: <161227016858.23782.6920046264568181379.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

I am forwarding to Indology a romanized text of the Mahishasuramardini
stotra.  The romanization is done by Mr. Ramkumar of Stanford.  It does
not follow the CSX or any of the academic mode of transliteration, and yet
is useful.  I have added to it an initial translation of my own.  In 
several places, I am not certain of the text or of its meaning.  Please
feel free to make suggestions for improvements.
     Madhav Deshpande

------- Forwarded message





From Alan.Thew at liverpool.ac.uk  Sat May 28 20:51:26 1994
From: Alan.Thew at liverpool.ac.uk (Alan Thew)
Date: Sat, 28 May 94 21:51:26 +0100
Subject: Dasakumaracarita
Message-ID: <161227016862.23782.9735739707201035630.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

On Fri, 27 May 1994 17:31:35 BST  Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
>
>Thanks are due to Lars Martin Fosse for adding another text to our swelling
>archive of machine-readable Sanskrit texts.  Lars has presented selections
>from the Dasakumaracarita of Dandin (chs. 3, 5, 6).
>
>The file is available as dandin-dasakumaracarita.zip from
>ftp.bcc.ac.uk:/pub/users/ucgadkw/indology.
>
This is now available on the University of Liverpool Gopher (gopher.liv.ac.uk)
and the mailing list archives.

Use the following command to fetch it by email:

	get indology dandin.uue

and send to listproc at liverpool.ac.uk  (as usual).

--
Alan Thew
alan.thew at liv.ac.uk   ...!uknet!liv!alan.thew   Tel: +44 51 794-3735
University of Liverpool, Computing Services     Fax: +44 51 794-3759