Bookstores in Madras?

[DR.S.KALYANARAMAN]

On Sun, 15 Oct 1995, Anand Venkt Raman wrote:

> > My wife and I will be going to Madras early next year. I would like to
> > purchase some sanskrit books while I'm there.
> > Brian Akers
> > sfauthor at aol.com
> 
> There is in fact an indology bookshop near Shanti Vihar restaurant
> in Luz on the street leading into Vidya Mandir School, I forget the
> exact name of the street, but it is very easy to locate. That is
> where I bought my Sanskrit dictionary and several other books. They
> also stock many OUP titles.
This is the Motilal bookstore.
There is another specialist store called Samantha (Personal Book Depot)
in Teynampet on the Mt. Road opposite the AG's office. Thisis very good
for archaic titles.
Kalyanaraman.