here, here (was: Re: What Devanagari text would you most like as an e-text_

[Dipak Bhattacharya]

A correction on my part. The 2.vol.set BHSD (Gr., Dict.) was priced at the equivalent of $20/- in 1999. My conjecture of the $ 50/- as the current price may be have elements of over-invoicing. No mischief meant.
DB

--- On Fri, 5/6/09, Paul Kiparsky <kiparsky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU> wrote:


From: Paul Kiparsky <kiparsky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU>
Subject: Re: here, here (was: Re: What Devanagari text would you most like as an e-text_
To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
Date: Friday, 5 June, 2009, 8:43 AM


What about the Deccan College Dictionary?    Imagine having all the slips online, transcribed and digitized in searchable form with all the pandits' annotations included.  Last time I was in Pune the slips were still rotting in the scriptorium.  The publication is taking for ever, and the printed volumes don't include everything.  It would be a fantastic resource, and it would rescue the work of some brilliant scholars over many decades.  I heard there was some plan to scan the slips, not nearly as useful, but I suppose more realistic.  Does anyone know what the current state of the project is?

Paul





On Jun 4, 2009, at 7:18 PM, Dipak Bhattacharya wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
> Most probably it is naivety, but I am somewhat intrigued at the rush of mails urging the immediate online publication of Edgerton's BHSD. The BHSD was reprinted in 1970, 72, 77, 85, 93 98. I do not know if it has been reprinted again. But I was informed of its availability till a few months ago. In view of the utility of the work, like MMW and Apte it is likely to be reprinted again and again. Its price in India is equivalent to $ 50/- .
> Does the online publication of a three volume work, two are mostly in demand, make it easier to handle? Online publications are more convenient than hard copies for huge multi-volume publications like the Tipitaka,  its Tibetan versions, the St.Petersburg Dictionary etc.
> Why this rush for an easily available three volume work?
> There must be some reason. Only that is not clear to me.
> Best wishes
> DB
> 
> 
> --- On Fri, 5/6/09, Stefan Baums <baums at U.WASHINGTON.EDU> wrote:
> 
> 
> From: Stefan Baums <baums at U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
> Subject: Re: here, here (was: Re: What Devanagari text would you most like as an e-text_
> To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
> Date: Friday, 5 June, 2009, 5:26 AM
> 
> 
> Dear Stephen,
> 
> copyright allowing, the one certainly doesn’t rule out the
> other. While we would like to have BHSD available in the same
> search interface as our other dictionaries (and our own):
> 
>    http://ebmp.org/a_gdp.php
> 
> a flat digital text file can easily be extracted from that.
> 
> Cheers,
> Stefan
> 
> --Stefan Baums
> Asian Languages and Literature
> University of Washington
> 
> 
> 
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