e-Rigveda

[sohum at ms.uky.edu]

To 
Dr.  Fco. Javier Martinez Garcia,

I read your mail in the INDOLOGY group stating that:
||> Several of us have been working with an e-text of the Rig Veda 
||
||you can have a look in our WWW-server
||http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/texte.htm#ved
||and also under
||http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/rv-inf-e.htm
||
||best regards
||J.M.

I have known of Titus and have looked at the list of Vedic texts
available. For some reason I never figured out how the texts are
available for use and so did not actually pursue it any further. 

Recently, I corresponded with Dr. Jost Gippert and have been helping
out with proofreading of manusmR^iti and some Kalidasa work. So now I
know that you need a password and account to access the archive. I
have these now. 

I am deeply interested in the state of the Rigveda. I have a suspicion
that this is the same text that is being worked on by John Gardner and
myself after a lot of initial work by Kim Poulsen, Nandu Abhyankar and
Avinash Chopade. As far as we knew the work was in Rutgers first and
in the Oxford archives and was supposedly deposited by Robert Kahn
(Khan?). Recently, thru John Gardner, I learned the names of
Ananthanarayana and Lehman associated with it and now it seems that
you have been working on exactly the same text - as I read in your web
site.

We have been interested in converting it to ITRANS with a ready
conversion to devanaagarii thru LaTeX. We have no accent markings
included. There were some apparent markings in the original files, but
in the current form they do not seem to be clear or accurate in any
sense (perhaps due to our misunderstanding of the notations).

I started looking at the parishishhThaas (khilaani as they are
probably known) in my own devanaagarii version and since these were
missing, I have since encoded them. I am not sure if I have found all
yet! John Gardner has been cleaning up the mandalas one by one and the
current form has been put up on the Indology site by Dominik.

Please let us know the state and intended final use/version of your
edition.  We intend our version to be in full public domain, but there
is no need to continue, if you have already finished it. I am
enclosing copies of this letters to the other people involved in this
project.

Thanks in advance for prompt response.

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